Before answering this question, we need to understand the concepts of "art" and "way". "Art", in simple terms, is the method or technique of doing something; and "Tao" is the law or reason of how things work.

After understanding these two concepts, it is simpler to look at this issue.

Why do many people not like to read books like Tao Te Ching and The Analects of Confucius? Because these books are about the "Tao", and the "Tao" is somewhat nebulous, easy to know and difficult to do, which is why many people know a lot of reasoning, how to do is another matter.

Why do they recommend foreign books? Because many of these recommended foreign books are about "techniques", which, in simple terms, teach people how to do things. Because the method is ready-made, people follow the steps in the book to do, you can do what you want to do, do not need people to understand how deep the truth.

As a matter of fact, both kinds of books can be read, but as the level of cognition increases, people still prefer books that talk about "Tao". Because "Tao" is relatively unchanging, while "art" is ever-changing. This is also the reason why books like Tao Te Ching and The Analects of Confucius can be passed down for thousands of years, while those foreign books are popular for a while and then disappear.

For not being able to read ancient books.

Why can't you read? To use Mr. Nan Huaijin's point of view, it is because there is a fault line in traditional culture!

How did the disconnect occur? While there are many reasons, there are at least three major changes resulting from just talking about why you can't read ancient books: the

First, in recent times, the impact of Western culture has begun to promote the vernacular language. As soon as the vernacular language became popular, reading ancient books and texts became an obstacle to understanding words and phrases.

The second is the traditional Chinese character reform, after the change to simplified Chinese characters, reading traditional Chinese characters in ancient languages becomes out of the textual barriers.

Third, there is a huge change in the content of ancient and modern life, and this potential change in the general cultural environment changes the reading of ancient texts into a barrier to cultural understanding.

If you can't read it, how can you recommend it to people? On the contrary, foreign literature is closer to the modern mode of thinking and way of life, and is easier to understand.

To take it a step further, now that the smartphone onslaught is so great, there are fewer people reading paperbacks, let alone telling people to read ancient books.

This era is too hurried, people have so many desires, it is too late to make money to enjoy, where is the spirit of reading?

When you have time, you can read Mr. Nan Huaijin's The Analects of Confucius, Mr. Xiao Tianshi's Tao Te Ching Sacred Interpretation, and Khenpo Sodagi's translation of The Great Perfection of the Way Forward. They are all good books that are more enlightening. Dare not say popular, at least easy to understand, remove a lot of obstacles to understanding.

Can reading Tao Te Ching make you strong in science and technology? Can you get rich by reading the Analects of Confucius? Thinking about it [flash of light]

Why is it that nowadays most don't like to read and feel Chinese books "Tao Te Ching", "The Analects of Confucius", etc., and when it comes to recommended books, most of them are foreign ones?

Where there is a cause, there is an effect.

Taoism is the law of nature. Nothing can escape the law of its natural occurrence and development.

In order to find the reasons for the results of things and events, it is necessary to trace the roots of the problem to its proper source.

I. Traditional cultural fault lines

The great China, the vast Chinese civilization, after thousands of years and not decline.

It was only at the end of the Qing Dynasty that the Qing masters became arrogant and corrupt. China became poor and weak. Beginning in 1840, foreign guns and artillery were fired into China, and China was ravaged.

Some far-sighted officials and cultural figures saw China's accumulated weakness, which also made some nationals skeptical and unconfident about thousands of years of traditional thinking and culture. To learn advanced science and technology from the West.

"After the May Fourth Movement, the use of the vernacular language was promoted.

But these people are more radical in their thinking, looking to the West for everything and absorbing it wholesale. They cannot take the essence and remove the dross. They are even so ridiculous that they want to abolish Chinese characters and Chinese medicine.

This situation continued into the 1970s and 1980s.

Secondly, many cultured people have been colonized by Western culture and have become slaves and guides of Western culture. This is slavish thinking

Since the May Fourth Movement, those who grew up after the cultural revolution, after a batch of inheritance, most of them have received Western culture.

Because of the break in traditional culture and the advocacy of some intellectuals, later scholars have contempt for traditional culture in their minds. It produces the prejudice that everything is based on Western theories.

Worse still, the power of speech is in the hands of those in power and some of their lackeys. Many people are righteous and outspoken, but they are light on words, and the general public can only be guided by the few readers.

These people think that foreign books are high, big and superior. Traditional culture "Tao Te Ching", "Analects" and so on are rustic. So when it comes to recommendation mostly recommend foreign books.

III. Changes of the times, due to the climate of the big time

The market economy is deepening, the material is too rich; the pace of life is too fast. Properties are flowing across the board, and people's hearts are becoming restless.

Coupled with the poor guidance of the media, everyone is pursuing material enjoyment, and the spirit has become empty.

The technology of the times is changing rapidly, and the electronic products are traveling by leaps and bounds. And because the pace of life is too fast, just want to relax the body and let go of the soul.

He or she just wants to rest, take a break, and enjoys funny, light-hearted texts and videos, games, etc.

Likes entertainment to kill time, can't calm down to read traditional culture books.

IV. Lack of a free mind and an independent spirit

People who are truly hierarchical and patterned, he or she studies traditional culture such as the Tao Te Ching and the Analects of Confucius.

And most people do not have the independence of thought, the spirit of freedom. They do not have their own reading and thinking ability, lack of insight, can not form their own world view, outlook on life, values, reading.

V. Lack of cultural knowledge structure

Due to the cultural disconnect, none of it was emphasized before. Most people have a poor background in ancient languages, and there are so many meanings of ancient words, phrases and sentences, and the difference between ancient and modern meanings is too great.

Plus the simplification of the font, there is no ancient meaning. The overall feeling of the raw and difficult to understand, fast-paced life, and can not meditate, so they are reluctant to read.

What can be done to promote traditional culture?

First, the State vigorously emphasizes and promotes traditional culture and invests more funds.

A strong youth is a strong nation. Let the youth fully realize the great wisdom of traditional culture. The state has now begun to implement it, big kudos!

II. Starting with every parent, every school teacher

III. Increasing media outreach

The traditional Chinese culture, Tao Te Ching, and other scriptures, histories and collections, is profound and has a long history.

The Tao Te Ching, in particular, is an exhaustive study of the mysteries of the universe, the heavens, the earth, and the changes in human beings. The collection of health care, cultivation, dealing with people, business, military, governance ...... and so on, all inclusive.

It has been used by countless emperors and kings, as well as people in grass and clothes. This shows the breadth and depth of his thought.

Truth be told, it was after studying the Tao Te Ching that I came to understand a lot about life.

People must have self-knowledge, and be open-minded, not to be exposed. We must not be greedy for success.

All hard things must begin with easy, and the nine-story platform begins with tired earth.

Great disasters must be prevented first.

......

Although the Tao Te Ching is only 5,000 words long, it is nevertheless a collection of words that are simple and profound. Classical, cautionary words abound. How can one not love it!

Two aspects, one is the linguistic environment, people who grew up with modern languages are raw and repulsed by reading ancient texts. If you can't read it, you won't read it. Secondly, in real life, driven by life too fast, there is no mind to be able to read with patience, especially obscure and difficult to understand philosophical books. In real life, these scriptures and theories are monopolized by older scholars, and the real world needs articles and expressions that match real life.

Most of the books of the Hundred Schools of Thought, most of them are values, talking about some shallow truths, cultivating the basic position and values, on the surface, it is very shallow, saying the obvious things. Deep hidden pre, the average person is not good to understand, read dozens of times, who has the patience ...... and then later writings, have been involved in methodology, clearly tell you how to deal with things, but the language, it is very bad to understand, and then Chinese writings, generally teach you how to become a government official, to the general public, the significance of a limited number of people. But Western writings are different, how to understand others, how to understand themselves, how to make money, how to look at art, all have a system, so it looks much easier!

The chronicle novel "Qiu Yan Zhi" was written by a female writer, Ju Guoqing, after 8 years of hard work. It was published by Xinhua News Agency, which invested in the book. The book depicts hundreds of famous collectors all over the world from the 1920s to the 1980s who are full of legends. Lumpy's Legendary Collector Stories ......

In the book, there are more than 63 characters in the book. <红楼梦423人；战争与和平546人>A record number of characters in a single novel in world literature. ......

It is the only one million-word novel in the world of literature that is currently being written by a female author and published, not self-published, for public distribution...

Modern Chinese people generally have depression, anxiety and utilitarianism is serious, and education and contempt for traditional cultural education, always thinking of convergence with the developed countries in the West, the serious westernization of educational thinking, Western civilization and Chinese civilization and there are many conflicts, the Chinese nation's self-confidence in the last two hundred years has suffered a heavy blow. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has a long way to go!

Nowadays, the purpose of reading is to relax, or in a relaxed atmosphere to sense, "Tao Te Ching" and other cultural texts need to have a certain understanding of history, the foundation of the ancient language as well as a certain experience and thinking power.

With these foundations, went to read, only pathetic discovery, some knowledge or do not understand, some text is still not clear, but also to check the relevant books, looking back, found on the pirate ship, life has been exhausted, ducks and pears, reading did not relax instead of becoming a laborious and hurtful, and finally can only be a sentence of I'd like to go!

On the contrary, foreign literature is basically novels, essays, even ancient writings, publishers have to consider the audience, whether it is worth translating, once translated will be a fine product, the translation of the text will also try to meet the tastes and preferences of the present day, try to vernacular, literary point! First the publisher's selection, and then the translation of the seasoning, naturally, as the restaurant's peanuts, more popular.

Books like the Tao Te Ching, but instead, like ginseng, Chinese herbs, they're known to be good, but they're too much of a hassle to take, and who wants to go buy a casserole dish for a cold, and then simmer Chinese herbs for two hours?

Don't you think so?

The Tao Te Ching and The Analects of Confucius, the canonical texts of the Dao De Jing and the Analects of Confucius, are two of the most profound books of wisdom that China has ever introduced to foreign countries, and they are also books of which the people of China are deeply proud.

These two books are slowly dissolving into two stars overhead in the contemporary landscape, out of reach, most people aware of its existence, not having actually read it.

The Tao Te Ching and The Analects of Confucius, if one does not understand the author's creative background, creative purpose, creative techniques, and the ideas of interpretation in ancient Chinese, even if one reads them, one is only reading words and sentences, not articles or thoughts.

Modern information is so rich in the era, there is no lack of fun, good-looking easy to read fast-food aphorisms and phrases time is mostly allocated to see a flower photographed, ate a meal recorded, sent to the circle of friends, about socializing and so on, willing to sit quietly and read these large part of the people are not many.

Sometimes, reading such books, let colleagues and friends know, will be made fun of, will be derided as "what era, you are still bent on reading only sage books, you will become old-fashioned!"

Generally people love to recommend foreign books, unless he genuinely like, worthy of praise. If it is just the pursuit of a sense of high class, peculiarly good, catechized sense, it is not really reading, but utilitarian needs!