What are the essential reading books for college freshmen?

Introduction: books are the spiritual food of mankind, since ancient times there is a cloud, "the rich do not need to buy a good field, the book has a thousand bells of corn", with the companion of the book, you can find the answer to the university, the answer to life. I organized the books suitable for freshmen to read, I hope you like it:

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Humanities Readings

1, Xia Zhongyi edited by the University of Humanities Readings (three volumes: people and self, people and the state, people and the world), Guangxi Normal University Press, 2002 edition

2, He Guanghu and other editors of the University of the Spiritual Archives (four volumes: (Ancient, Modern, Contemporary), Guangxi Normal University Press, 2004 edition

3, "Thought Exercise: Dialogues on the Humanities between Ding Dong, Xie Yong, Gao Zengde, Zhao Cheng, and Zhi Xuemin", Guangdong People's Publishing House, 2004 edition

Abstract: The way of the university is to cultivate materials and even more so to cultivate talents, and this is very clear, but the world is difficult to implement. At the beginning of the new century, Ding Dong, Xie Yong, and Xia Zhongyi advocated "spiritual adulthood", and humanistic education began to enter the practical level of all stages of education. By reading these books, one can become an intellectual rich in conscience and strength, a modern citizen who knows his mission, rights and responsibilities, and a global citizen who is at the forefront of human civilization.

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The General History Readings

1, Li Zehou, The Course of Beauty, Heritage Publishing House, 1981 edition

Li Zehou, the enlightened man of China's open era. His ideas will be transcended, but his propositions of "complementarity between Confucianism and Taoism," "beauty in accumulation," "the tradition of witchcraft and history," and "the ontology of emotion" are still valid today. But the propositions of "complementarity of Confucianism and Taoism", "beauty in accumulation", "witch-history tradition", "emotional ontology" and so on are still relevant today. This beautiful book, "The Course of Beauty," is the best introduction to the general history of love through beauty.

2. Qian Mu, "Outline of National History," The Commercial Press, 1996 edition

The most Chinese of the general histories, but at the same time, we need to beware of its cultural narcissism. Combined with the more down-to-earth Lu Simian's "Lu's General History of China", it is a better read, but the latter is not written for novices, so it is important to observe its methodology and intent.

3, Qin Hui "tradition ten: the system of local society, culture and its transformation", Fudan University Press 2004 edition

Qin Hui has been overflowing history of public **** intellectuals, this book is the most profound discussion of the traditional Chinese Legalist nature of the work, but also for the present and the future of China, rich in constructive ideas. At the freshman level, you may choose to read Chapter 2, "The "Great ****ing Homunculus Proper" and Traditional Chinese Society".

4. Wang Jiafan, A General Theory of Chinese History, East China Normal University Press, 2000 edition

Written out of dissatisfaction with the current textbooks on general Chinese history, this text is geared toward graduate students. But as a flood of coherent and scarce `general knowledge works, at least the first three sections of the former editor and the latter editor as a whole is worth recommending, its agricultural property rights trichotomy of the perspective of a unique eye, the line with the bibliography is very suitable for novice readers.

5. Yu Yingshi, The Scholar and Chinese Culture, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2003 edition

Contemporary Neo-Confucianism and its representative works, compared with the 1987 edition of the five new articles. It explores the tension and cooperation between the Tao and the potential, and hits the pulse of Chinese cultural history. And its aim of exalting subjectivity is even more significant today.

6. Wang Xuetai, "Nomadic Culture and Chinese Society" (Updated Edition), 2007 edition, Tongxin Publishing House

The pioneering discovery of nomadic culture in agrarian China, which is a land-abiding country, has revealed the other side of traditional China, and Mr. Li Shenzhi's assessment of "discovering a different China" has hit the nail on the head.

7, (U.S.) Stavrianos, Dong Shuhui, Wang Chang, Xu Zhengyuan translation of the General History of the World (seventh edition), Peking University Press, 2005 edition

Because of the integration of the global view of history and the history of civilizations, as well as beautiful and timeless ideas, this book has become the world's most popular general history of the world in the past half-century.