First Reading Notes

An Ordinary Reader's Notes from the Mind·Shangguan Wanwei Preface I'm not an academic. Not a writer. I am just a person who has gone through some detours and finally decided to sit down and read seriously. I am a slow reader. You have to read a sentence several times, and sometimes you have to read a book over and over for a long time. After reading it, something touched my heart, so I wrote it down. These words are not profound knowledge, but just a dialogue between a person and the book - there is no audience, no judgment, and no standard answer. Every article in this book is something I have read and thought about. Some are fragments of me staring at a book in a daze, some are passages I couldn't help but write down after closing the book late at night, and some are some truths I suddenly figured out while walking on the road during the day. They are not gorgeous, they are not profound, and they do not quote scriptures. The only thing guaranteed is that they are true. The name "First Reading Note" has two meanings. The first level is literal: I just started studying seriously, like a new student, feeling new to everything. The second level is in my heart: I am re-recognizing myself. In the past, I lived in the expectations and definitions of others. Now when I open a book, I am also opening myself up page by page. If you have opened a book late one night and written a paragraph early one morning, then you are a fellow traveler of this book. These words are written for myself and you. ——·—— About the author Shangguan Wanzhi was born in Anhui. He graduated from college with a major in Chinese Pharmacy and currently leads a quiet and regular life.