Take the Analects of Confucius for example: although I read it word by word and understood its literal meaning, its content did not resonate with me because I could not connect with Confucius’s complex thoughts and hidden connotations. There is no need for me to spend much time taxing my brain thinking about the content of an article as I always did in my serious reading.
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