说《新菜根谭》

A Review of “New Version of Tending the Roots of Wisdom”

At the present time, the internet is the single net that has captured the whole world. With it, you can hardly lead a secluded life even if you stay home all the time. The world economic amalgamation and the oriental and occidental cultural confrontation lead to the unprecedented reform of people’s outlooks on life, family, love, and morality, and we have to reevaluate and redirect ourselves.

What will come will come, and what will go will go. Many things are independent of our will. Facing opportunities, pressure, challenges, temptations, family love, fraternal love, and amatory love, how can you act tactfully and properly? The crux lies in your mentality and methods to face  and settle the problems. Standing on a commanding height and with a wide vision, Mr. Song Yuan-li puts forward completely new comprehension of various kinds of problems of the world. With simple and unadorned writing style, the book expounds profoundly on philosophy of life, making many people feel that it speaks out their minds. No other books can rival it in the thrilling, and enlightenment it gives to human souls, and the adjustment and stabilization it gives to  human mentality. Someone said: “Studying intensively New Version of Tending the Roots of Wisdom will benefit people for at least one hundred year”. It is believed to be true.

This book consists of over one hundred articles, and is recognized by common people, scholars and great man alike. It is indeed a book appealing to both refined and popular taste.

You may find your way out in this book no matter whether you are disappointed or pleased, excited or depressed, successful or failed, in a group or alone, able to manage or contriving with difficulty.

Written in the Ming Dynasty, Tending the Roots of Wisdom is out of date and hard to understand to the young due to its time and style limit, while New Version of Tending the Roots of Wisdom will surely become widespread as long as human beings exist. Just as many readers said, it is a timely and immortal life dictionary.

Every article of the book has a distinct theme, with plain and flowing writing style and good ingenuity, showing the author’s spirit free from worldly cares.

We sincerely recommend this book to the modern and future mankind, firmly believing that it will benefit you as soon as you start to read it.

翻译：张宝丹（北外英语基地副校长）

2005-12-01

隆重推荐《新菜根谭》

当今时代，一张互联网，将天下一网打尽。即便你足不出户，也很难与世隔绝。世界经济大融合，东西方文化大碰撞，使得人生观、家庭观、爱情观、道德观，都经历着旷古未有的变革，你不得不重新审视和定位。

该来的挡不住，该走的留不住，许多事情都不是以人们的主观意志为转移的。面对机遇、面对压力、面对挑战、面对诱惑、面对亲情、友情和爱情，如何把握分寸又游刃有余？关键在于你以什么样的心态去面对，用何种方法去解决。宋远利先生站在时代的高度，以广阔的视野，对人世间方方面面的问题提出了全新的见解，以朴实无华的文笔，深刻阐述了人生深层次的哲理，给人以“说到心坎里”的感受。此书对人心灵的震撼和启迪，对心态的调整和平抑都无可匹敌。有人说“精读《新菜根谭》，人生受益一百年。”信不为过 。

该书一百多篇文章，无论学者还是平民，无论伟人还是凡人，都能接受，堪称是一部雅俗共赏的人生力作。

你得意、你失意，你兴奋、你压抑，你成功、你失败，你群行、你独在，你选择还是勉为其难，都可从这本书里找到答案。

明朝的《菜根谭》，由于时代的局限，文体的局限，年青人开始读不懂。而《新菜根谭》，只要有人类，就会广为流传。如许多读者称，这是一部应时、应运而生并将流芳百世的人生词典。

这本书的每篇文章都主题鲜明，文笔简洁流畅，创意新颖，展现了作者超凡脱俗的气概。

我们向当代和未来的人类，隆重推荐这本《新菜根谭》。我们坚信，开卷有益。

天天读书会

2005-11-20