All travelers,

They are all readers,

Along the long road of life,

Looking for a way to save Schrödinger's cat

Reading × Travel

Reading is lonely travel, and travel is also a kind of reading with action.

Open a book and walk into a strange city with a touch of awe and courage.

What is happening there, what life is going through there.

As a reader, I am just a bystander from God's perspective,

As a traveler, I am just a passer-by here.

Perhaps in the various aspects of life, we can only leave a sigh.

But every word we read and every step we take is a kind of salvation.

Save the Schrödinger's cat locked up in our bodies.

--Shenwei

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Schrödinger's cat theory

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, imagined placing a cat in an airtight box with a device with a 50% chance of killing the cat.

At the end of the hour, he asked a question. Nowadays, common sense of whether cats are alive or dead tells us that cats are either alive or dead.

However, Schrödinger pointed out that according to quantum physics, the moment before opening the box, the cat was both alive and dead, that is, the cat was in a mixed state of life and death.

Only by opening the box can we know whether the cat is alive or dead. Before that, the cat has been in a state of chaotic possibilities, both alive and dead.

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Read, read the world

Stories in reading, reading your own life

Travel and reading, body and soul

are on the road

Special theme for Book Day on April 23:

#Reading and traveling

#Talk about books and distance

Q1:"Traveling and reading, one of the body and soul is always on the road." What do reading and traveling mean to you respectively?

For me,

Reading and traveling are actually the same thing.

The former may seem simple, but sometimes it is common to read a book for two or three months to understand it;

The latter may seem difficult, but treat it as an exploration and you will come straight to the bridge when you reach it.

In my observation, many people cannot read, just as many people cannot travel.

When they read, when they meet people who are different and different from ordinary people, they can't accept it and accuse the author of polluting their eyes;

When they travel, they encounter accidents and their plans cannot keep up with changes, even if the plane is late or they get lost in the wrong place, they will be angry.

For me, reading and traveling are all about leaving my comfort zone, finding a different lifestyle, meeting different people, and experiencing joys and sorrows.

I am not satisfied with the existence of only one life and one thought.

What ways can we expand our in-depth understanding and participation in the world we live in,

Perhaps only by reading and traveling,

Only then can the cat hidden in our bodies,

Can survive in more parallel spaces.

Q2: Have you ever set off on a trip because you read a book?

I often want to go on a trip just because I read a book.

For example, when I read "Pride and Prejudice" when I was a boy, I yearned to see Jane Austen's beautiful scenery of England, lake areas, countryside, manor, carriage, river, grassland...

When reading Wang Shifu's "The West Chamber", the descriptions of temples, scenery along the way, pastoral scenery, history and humanities brought the travel life of young people in classical literature and art into the paper;

I remember the first time I went to Turkey was because I had finished reading Pamuk's "Museum of Innocence" and wanted to sleep on his Istanbul cool mattress.

The farmers in the four fields are all working hard, and the air is mixed with the fragrance of soil, making it a lively atmosphere. The little shepherd boy was riding across the back of the cow, playing the piccolo inappropriately, looking as if he was enjoying himself, adding to the pastoral and indifferent atmosphere. -- "The West Chamber"

When I was a child, I didn't like learning very much. My biggest hobby was reading.

At that time, there were not many choices and various channels for reading books like now. I just rented books from the bookstore next to the school and read everything, from world classics to Japanese comics.

If there is something new, take it home immediately and see it in class. Perhaps because the grades were okay, the teacher turned a blind eye.

Outside, there is the clear skies unique to Istanbul in spring. Although the sweltering heat makes people on the streets sweating, it is cool inside houses and shops and under linden and chestnut trees. We felt the similar coolness from the mattress under us. On the slightly musty mattress, we made love like happy children.

--"Museum of Innocence"

The more books I read, the more curious I am about this world. Each book contains a different life, strange people, from emperors to the bottom of society.

They all live in different countries and different cities, which makes me particularly yearn for that country and city. When I grew up, when I went to many places, I would have a spontaneous emotion, as if you had gone to a very familiar friend's city, follow the path he has taken, and think about his views on the world.

Q3: Do you read books about traveling somewhere?

Yes, definitely will.

Everyone has a different definition of travel. Some people go to see the scenery, some people go to relax and relax. I will also experience these, but if I can learn more about how people here are thinking on this basis, I will cherish this trip even more.

When traveling to Japan, I would reread Ozaiji's "Disqualification in Human Life", which describes Japanese life and its ordinariness and cruelty.

I reluctantly stuffed the food into my mouth bit by bit and couldn't help thinking: "Why do people need three meals a day?" Everyone eats with a serious face, which also seems to have become a ritual. The family, old and young, gathered in a dark room for three meals a day at a specified time and sat side by side in an orderly manner. Regardless of whether you have an appetite or not, you have to chew without saying a word, while holding your body and lowering your head, as if praying to the gods living in seclusion at home."

--"Disqualification in the World"

There are also books that only after going to a certain place did they discover the lack of local culture and began to study it after traveling, such as Arthur Helmand's "Scotland, the Starting Point of Civilization Now". It was not until I went to Scotland for the second time and had a deeper understanding of the relationship between this place and modern civilization that I began to study this book.

Scotland is, after all, a maritime country. It sees its uncertain image through the shaking sponge. Because this is uncertain, its people try to establish something certain, whether economic development, education, academia or civil society.

--"Scotland: The Starting Point of Modern World Civilization"

Or while traveling, you suddenly became interested in a certain culture and started reading at that time. I remember when I went to Venice and was invited to visit the Peggy Guggenheim Museum. When I was surrounded by so many contemporary art and heard about the legend of the Guggenheim, I purchased her autobiographical novel "Confessions of an Art Fan" and chewed on the books on the museum's private observation deck.

I remember that the happiest moment was sitting in St. Mark's Square and seeing Pollock's dazzling works through the open window of the museum.

--"Confessions of an Art Fan"

However, I rarely read guide books, unless this trip is for work and I have to bring photography and video, so I have to plan the route and have to read guide books. But in fact, I don't read them much. I have been to most of the places where I work.

However, there is one guide book that I will read, which is a guide to food and art. It will not give you the address of the planned hotel or the check-in point for art, but will tell you the story behind it.

For example, once I went to Europe, I took a small book with me,"European Food Examination" written by Cai Qianwen. It had interesting brushstrokes to discuss with readers the sources of many delicious food in Europe.

A hundred years later, we are fortunate to have much richer food than in the Tude era. While tasting the delicacies of various countries, if we can think about the relevant evolution contained in them, the satisfaction we feel will not be limited to our taste.

--"European Food Examination"

In a sense, reading is more important than traveling.

When traveling, I feel, but when reading, I think.

Then when writing, I reflected my feelings and thoughts at the same time.

For me, it is not easy for me to do these three things well in my life.

Q4: Is reading a form of entertainment? Are there any other forms of entertainment that reading cannot reflect?

What book should I read?

If you are reading professional books, it will definitely not be entertainment. Although in order to get more people to return to books, you use in-depth and simple methods to make the content less boring, the process of seeking knowledge is bound to be difficult and it is difficult to have too much entertainment.

If you read online novels, it is mainly for entertainment to pass the time. However, I also found that some authors use online novels to find a realistic truth, such as travel novels, which use a modern perspective to view historical variables. This is not just entertainment.

Most of what I read are not in these two categories, but are thought-oriented and spiritual-related.

The trajectory of reading is from entertainment as a child to thinking when you grow up.

For example, when I was a child, my impression of Egypt mainly came from a cartoon "Daughter of the Nile" by Tomiko Hosokawa. In college, I was attracted by Agatha Christie's "Massacre on the Nile". When I grew up, the Bible created a more complete impression of Egypt for me.

I know that people don't like to read nowadays and read less because there are more ways to entertain them.

When the 5G era arrives and VR and AI technology leaps forward, there may not be many people traveling. They can experience the world without leaving home. Why spend money and time to actually travel?

But for me, the world is too fast now, and all information is fragmented and fills my eyes.

Perhaps reading and traveling, a life that requires me to focus on it and concentrate on it, can only slow me down and calm my mind.

Q5: What books are you reading recently?

From the beginning of the epidemic, isolation to the present, I have read several different books at the same time.

I used to think that maybe I would do research when I retired, because the Schrödinger's cat locked in my body was an academic cat.

Unexpectedly, the epidemic allowed me to experience retirement in advance. Daily life is very simple. Get up in the morning to listen to the news and work out at the same time. After lunch, I took a short rest and kept reading in the study room.

I will read several different books at the same time. The one on my desk now is "A Brief History of Humanity" by Valharari and the other is "The Three Body" by Liu Cixin. These two books have been read very long ago, and now I am facing the challenges of an era, I pick them up and read them again, and my feelings and understanding are very different.

Have the power of God, but are irresponsible, greedy, and don't even know what you want. The world is in danger, and I'm afraid there is no more danger.

--"A Brief History of Humanity"

In the current epidemic, there are many negative energies around us. Many people cannot see the future and are not satisfied with their current life.

When the quarantine first started, they could also swipe their mobile phones to pass the time.

I thought it would be fine in a month or two, but I didn't expect it to be three to four months, or even longer. Short video beats no longer bring them happiness. Originally it was just for entertainment, but now it became the norm.

So false news began to fly all over the place. At first, everyone received it like a treasure, but as more and more false news became, it turned into a negative mentality.

In fact, all our experiences can be found in books, and the correct news can also be found in books.

Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" said: Everything is known.

It's just five light words, but it takes a lot of reading and thinking to get to the edge of the truth.

Q6: Introduce the books you have written? Recommend one of the most worth reading books at the moment.

The books I have written in recent years are mainly travel literature, and the most representative ones are three,"One Day, I Met the World" and "Let's go! While Youth and Dreams Still Live "Enjoy Europe".

One day, I shared with readers my feelings about seeing the world for the first time. Let's Go is to give readers the courage to travel alone. Enjoy Europe is advocating an attitude towards travel and life.

Sometimes, when one person leaves, another person's world will be lonely. I don't know if my departure will leave your world alone.

--"One day, I met the world"

In addition to travel literature, I also write novels. The two books most known by fans are "I Like You, Did You Know?" and "Dear, have you always been lonely?"

Before becoming a traveler, I was always an author. My youth and literature have always been intertwined, perhaps because many of the stories I wrote when I was a child were circulated by various classes, which gave me the pleasure of writing.

The article he wrote casually actually made some people believe it.

So since I was a child, I have had an inexplicable sense of awe for literature. Maybe you just write casually, but it affects other people's perceptions.

So when reading my books, most of them are my real experiences, coupled with the richness and thinking of literature.

As you read them, I hope you can treat the cat named Schrödinger (or also called the cat of Shenwei?) well, They are waiting for you to save.

There is only one way to save it: think, use a scientific attitude, and find the truth of life.