This is a Famous article written by the American writer Helen Keller, who was both deaf and blind.
In this passage Helen mainly warned us to be aware of our listless attitude towards life. And asking us to care the things we always thought to be ordinary. Finally, her advise of "it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow" Gives me the deepest impression.
Maybe our able men can never feel the bitterness of a disabled person, thus neglect the blessings of seeing and hearing, and It's quite a pity that seeings see little.
I don't quite understand, however, if it is always a golden rule to regard each day as the last one, and this doubt reminds me of a kind of students. Every day they hurried to classroom in the morning, and rushed to the dining hall at noon. They walk faster than others to save time to study, seeing nobody on the road. They seldom speak to others and are regarded as eccentric people. it is true that they are time saving ones, and maybe regard everyday as the last day in life, but I can never accept this kind of life style.
I always take them as negative examples in my mind, I can hardly guess what on earth they are liveing for. Perhaps they live for study. Study is not everything, but the only thing. And I feel sorry for them.
I never deem study an unimportant thing, but it is far from the only thing. We stil have a lot more to cherish.
First of all, We should have love in our life.we always get love from our family, friends, and even some strangers who offer help to us, and equally importantly we should show our love to life, to the ones who love us, to strangers or animals and even to objects. What's more, we should appreciate everything that life has offer to us, even those sufferings. Sometimes we can get a lot more in sufferings than in joys. I am strongly convinced that there are no trivial things in life and no useless man. Every creature has its own meaning to exist in this lovely world.
In order to appreciate life we should notice every detail in life, including trifles like weather and food to bigger ones such as country and politics. Make the full use our God given faculties is the mainly task I think everyone of us should learn, and you can naturally acquire this ability if you try to keep your eyes open to all the aspects life.

Look at this book, always think what to write. Books can't white watch, so I'm going to have the entry. Spence classmate, is an American historian, he is extremely admire sima qian, so called "scene". I think this book is not strictly historiography work, because it does not in accordance with the "ask questions - analysis problem - problem solving" mode. One to douban finds himself behind The Times, it is hot in recent years "narrative history". Having said that, but I still think this book is more like a novel, rather than a book. When I see qian zhongshu to the history of the evaluation of the classmate, in the heart secretly pleased. Comrade qian zhongshu said history students is a "less successful novelist". Ha ha, indeed, compared with serious academic works, the theory part of the book is few, almost is not; Compared with real stories, not the words of the book is lively. So I to its location is outside of a textbook "supplementary materials".
History textbook is always mentioned, in the feudal society, farmers need to pay all kinds of exaction. As for how to "critical", "miscellaneous", textbook is very general sway in the past. In this book, I found the answer. First of all, farmers in addition to the coldest winter for three months without pay, the other a few months to pay. The percentage of each month pay is different. A minimum of 5%, up 20%. When spring comes, the farmers can sell winter do manual product, to pay taxes to the lunar calendar in February. After good wheat and barley harvest, to pay the tax of the late spring, late spring should be refers to the end of April. When the sorghum, soybeans, millet and came in autumn will pay the tax. Every month should pay tax twice, once every 15 days. At the end of the tax period, local officials will use five days to track down payment, and then to levy fines in five days. So, farmers in almost every day to pay tax. From the book of the farmers' income, after tax, their hand is hard to have spare money. Second, in addition to tax, farmers need to pay the cost of the other. The most depressing is "HuoHaoFei", namely the farmers to convert the copper silver when the cost of delivery. In addition, there are duties on tribute, reed, fishermen, second-hand transaction tax. Tax seems to enter the farmers to every field of life, nothing is not tax, nowhere not tax.
On the history books, I also often see, lower social status of women "feudal" comments. The book also provides a living example. Originally, in the qing dynasty, the countries in the form of law down the status of women. Especially in a woman became a widow, unfortunately her situation is even more miserable. Society provides women with only a handful of physical labor: in a large domestic servants, do care in an orphanage and old people's home, vouch for female prisoners in prison. Better go to when the matchmaker, midwife, or witches. These estimates do get three hundred copper isn't very high income, or in the widow's passages, observers for insert the wording "living". The state and society completely discourage remarried behavior to improve their life. So there's a: "big QingLv" remarried, family property and the original dowry, and heard her ex-husband's home leave. But in many cases, this article encourages law became widows "many and follow him till death" the root of pain.