Saving reading: The shallow layer of digital reading causes the loss of cultural connotation

Compared with the decline in the reading rate of paper books, the rate of digital reading is increasing. E-reader seems to be saving reading, so that read more people up.　　However, "the person who reads" and "The scholar" have the essential difference, the shallow layer of the digital reading is to some extent be thought to cause the harm to the reading itself. Digital reading, easy to fall into browsing style, randomness, jumping, fragmentation.　　This reading habit will weaken the ability of thinking and eventually lead to the loss of cultural heritage. Tradition believes that reading can change a person's fate, but also can change the fate of a nation.　　In this regard, the depth and light of reading for a social spirit of the formation and development is crucial.　　To avoid the tendency of "shallow reading" that digital reading may bring, the information as knowledge, will be fragmented into a system, you need to solve the digital publishing content lag, digital publishing copyright protection and so on a series of thorny issues, and in the hardware development of innovation, so that immersed in the "deep reading" in the electronic world can also find shelter. In the knowledge of the rapid replacement of today, our hands are what form the book is not important, more importantly, adhere to a deep human essence of the reading habits of nourishment. Reading is not a stepping stone, nor is it to cope with the day, but to improve our quality of life the best way to develop the best means of life resources. "Life is not a dead alley, in any case, Xiange is the most dependent on the living." "" Deep reading "endangered" anyway, as long as reading, is a good start. "Sinorama journalist/Chen, American science writer Isaac. Asimov had written such a piece of science fiction.　　On May 17, 2155, the little boy Mackinaw found a real book that his grandfather had described to him. "The pages are yellow and wrinkled, and the words on the books are all static, not in the order of the books they normally see on the screen," he said. Read the back, and then turn back to look at the previous page, just read those words still stay in situ.　　Mackinaw regrets the age of Grandpa's life, "how interesting they were then"--this is also the name of this science fiction novel. 2155, the next more than 140 years.　　However, if the current E-book Gongchenglvede the speed of speculation, the story of the time is likely to be ahead. At the end of July 2011, as leases expire and rents rise, the Shanghai Monsoon Book Park will close its doors to Raffles Square. Not long ago, a 16-year history of Beijing's famous Humanities academic bookstore, the wind into the loose has closed. Although the wind into the Pine Bookstore Chairman Wang Hongbin said the bookstore is looking for a new site reopened, but doubts and worries are still blowing: the physical bookstore, especially the Humanities bookstore can continue to "poetic dwelling"?　　Chinese people reading, need to save? Wang Yuquang, a professor at the Department of Information Management at Peking University, thinks that the debate over reading has seemed less recent two years.　　He remembers the discussion of "shallow reading" and "deep reading" around 2007. One of the backgrounds that caused the scholar panic was thatThe reading rate for paper books has fallen 4 times in a row, from 60.4% to 48.7%, from the first nationwide reading survey in 1999 to the fourth time in 2005.　　This number sends a dangerous signal: at least half of the Chinese are not reading books. In April 2009, Wang Yuquang published a paper, "We have to face the Times", put forward that we are facing the transformation of reading. For the first time in Chinese history, the transformation of reading from hand-written books to engraving printing; the second is the transformation of mechanical printing and new education, and the third is the time we are in today.　　Electronic media, such as television, computers and mobile phones, affect almost every reader. At the end of the article, Wang Yuquang said, "Shallow reading, reading and reading the Net is the main feature of the current reading ...　　I am still a conservative in the choice of reading texts. Some scholars believe that "shallow reading" is a browsing style, random, jumping, fragmented reading habits, in line with popular culture and the basic characteristics of consumer culture. The shallow reading will lead to the utilitarian reading and the weakening of thinking ability, which leads to the loss of cultural connotation and the reduction of national quality.　　And this phenomenon, to a large extent, is caused by the way of thinking of digital reading. To this end, the CPPCC Standing Committee Zhu and some writers put forward the establishment of "National Reading Festival", causing the scholar Yu Qiuyu's open retort.　　In favour of, against, questioning, advocating, the discussion of reading continued to warm up. Meanwhile, the national online reading rate has soared. With the development of mobile terminals such as e-readers and smartphones, digital publishing and digital reading have gained momentum. Although some people still equate digital reading with shallow reading, more scholars and beneficiaries have begun to justify digital reading. A Netizen's speech is quite representative: "I also like the paper book, but at least now nobody holds the bamboo slips to see!" Gradually, people no longer cling to the reading form of reading and the pros and cons of the debate. The widely accepted view is that there is no opposition between paper reading and electronic reading (or deep reading and shallow reading).　　They are different, but can exist at the same time, to read the reader, it means a wide range of what it is and the pleasure of reading. This fact is corroborated by the findings of a joint network survey of China Newsweek and Sina. Among the 5,089 participants, readers who read e-books and read books accounted for more than 60% (as of July 8, 2011).　　and the single choice of "paper book" and "ebook" Readers are roughly flat, only about 15%. At the beginning of this year, Professor Wang Yuquang was invited by Shandong Provincial Public Security Bureau to give a lecture on classic reading and deep reading for the police. On his return trip, a policeman, in order to discuss with him, even took a train to Beijing. The policeman took out his ipad and opened a reading program for the Art of war.　　Interface, there is the original text, there are comments, translation, there are illustrations, and even animation effect. "Such things, young people love to read." You asked me to read the paper, but I can't read it. The policeman finally urged Professor Wang Yuquang, and should vigorously advocate a similarprogram development of classic classics. Professor Wang felt that the young man was not unreasonable. In fact, "the change of reading habits is an unstoppable historical trend." Reading or reading the net, it may not be important, it is important that we are reading what content. "Reading a lot of people, in-depth reading will be expanded a few years ago, Capital Normal University, the Department of Literature Professor Taudong has organized literary and Art Salon, the Department of Teachers and students can participate." Specify one bibliography at a time, such as Hannah. Arendt "People's conditions" and so on, everyone read, two weeks after the meeting to discuss. However, after two or three times, Sharon will not go on, because it is difficult to complete the time limit reading task, "the more the longer, they feel no meaning." "He also wanted to recommend this book to the 19-year-old daughter to see, but the daughter is not interested." She and her classmates, like to surf the internet or use mobile phone to read fantasy, youth stories, such as Japan and Taiwan's Washington novels, South Korean campus novels such.　　His wife, however, loved books on health. In the view of Professor Taudong, in recent years, the national reading appears more and more obvious practicality, the tool tendency, in the practical, the material, the body color rapidly increases, the esthetic, the humanities, the Spirit's dimension is shrinking day by time.　　He called it "the ' living ' era of mass reading." In the 80 's, the nation's reading was vastly different. At that time, all sectors of Chinese society, from intellectuals to the general public, maintained a high enthusiasm for the reconstruction of political ideals and the value of life.　　Taudong's bookcase, still neat collection of "Modern Western Academic Library" "to the Future series" part of the works. "A nation without deep reading is dangerous. Professor Wang Yuquang said. And to save the deep reading of the population is still the basis of expanding the reading population, "like a pyramid, reading the population of the larger the base of depth reading is large." If a nation does not even have a habit of reading, the number of people reading in depth will be very small. "In the United States, the Clinton administration has put forward the" American Reading Challenge "campaign, a strong advocate of reading. 2005, the Singapore National Library Authority also held the first "read it!" Singapore "(read!　　Singapore) Activities to cultivate Chinese reading culture. In 2006, under the advocacy of the Propaganda department and the Press and publication Administration, China promoted the nationwide reading activities from the national level. In April 2006, the Chinese Library Society set up the science popularization and Reading Steering Committee (later renamed the "Reading Promotion Committee"), in order to promote the library community to step out of the internal exchanges, pay attention to social impact and promote universal reading.　　Since 2007, the National Reading Survey project, which has been implemented by the China Press and Publication Research Institute, has been changed from every two years to once a year, and has been upgraded from a self-financing to a national Ministry of Finance for the public welfare publication of scientific research projects. However, in the western part of China, a poor county may still have no library. In addition to government power, social reading activities such as reading societies and reading salons are quite different from those in Taiwan. Professor Wang Yuquang has paid special attention to the private library--Some curators to pick up junk for a living, but saved up hundreds of books, for the pro-neighbour borrow. Since the fifth National reading survey, published in 2008, the reading rate of paper books has finally been reversed. The first rally was 0.1%, and the second was 0.5. The reading of books, newspapers and magazines has continued to rise, according to the eight survey released in April this year. including books, newspapers and digital publications, the comprehensive reading rate of the various media reached 77.1%.　　It can be speculated that the strong growth of digital reading and solid growth in the paper reading, is showing a mutual conflict but symbiotic co-prosperity complex situation. In the context of the development of the Times, Professor Taudong said that there is no need to deliberately distinguish between deep reading or paper-based electronic reading, advocating "reading" more realistic.　　For example, in the social sciences and humanities, in recent years, the case rather than the theory as a guide, the popular language to convey profound content of books more and more, such as Li Zhou "Stray Dog", Liu "details of democracy" and so on. "At any rate, as long as reading is a good beginning," said Professor Wang Yuquang. Perhaps we can be cautious about the future of reading, but optimistic.