The Modern Mission Of Traditional Reading In Digital Age

Reading is a unique ability of humankind. Just like the appearance of words and books brings great changes to the world, reading also influences and changes the world to a very real extent. Reading is to obtain information from the books, newspapers and magazines, and recognize, understand, deepen and absorb the information conveyed through the written words (i.e. written materials) connecting with what is heard, what is seen, what is felt, what is thought and what is owned, which is a process of raising the perceptual knowledge to conceptual knowledge. During the whole process of reading, the reader connects his own stored content of visual impression knowledge with the active rational thought to the text, imagines and complements the blank meaning of the books, conforms the ambiguous meaning and then forms his own unique view to the same text or different text. As the proverb goes One thousand readers and one thousand Hamlets. Therefore, reading can not only enrich human's imagination but also stimulate their creativity. Reading is also an important way to improve peoples'quality.However, the busy work, the pressure in the workplace, the quickening tempo of the life and the rapid development of internet and other high-new technology begin to influence and gradually change people's reading habit, method and purpose. The appearance of digital reading also separates a part of the followers of traditional reading, and people gradually become estranged from the library, the traditional paper books and also the reading which is a historical tradition of the Chinese nation. They begin to have a preference for the colorful content brought out by the digital technology. The digital reading brings great impact to the traditional reading, so we must lay more emphasis on the propaganda and improvement of the traditional reading and recognize clearly the emotional lack of people's inner world caused by digital reading. The digital text does not pay attention to bring how much soul inspiration to people, nor attach importance to the quality of the reader's reading environment. Its skip and periodicity can not make the reader do depth reading through the digital reading mean, and it also can not reach the effect of edifying personal aesthetic taste.In recent years, the persistent effort in popularizing and pushing forward the people's reading at home and abroad make the nationals'reading enthusiasm be stirred up again and reading is paid attention to by people again. The good news is that the traditional reading is reserved and developed well during college students. They still like going to the library and reading paper articles. Although all sectors of the society including colleges and public library have made great effort on encouraging reading, there still exists places need to be improves and strengthened.The appearance of digitization separates parts of the readers of paper books, but we should know that digital reading is also a kind of reading way, and it increases certain the public reading rate in some extent. Therefore, we shall have correct standpoint to the two reading ways of digital reading and traditional paper reading. We can not repudiate any of the two totally, nor emphasize unilaterally. In the sight of current form of social development, the two reading ways must support with each other and develop together. At the same time of reading, we should pay more attention to the content of text and reading, but not insist on reading with which way. As long as the reading has significant, we should affirm it. And the other standpoint we need to insist on is that if we want to improve the personal quality, deepen the personal acculturation, quicken the step of social material and spiritual civilization construction and realize the construction target of harmonious society, the traditional text reading shall be laid stress on and loved by us, and inherited and promoted in long term.