"Freedom of study" is far away and "freedom of study" is very close

　　Needle not pointed

　　As World Book Day is approaching, Dangdang and Analysys jointly released the report "2021 China Study and Reading Status Quo Insights".

The report data shows that 72.8% of households in China do not have a study room, and the study area per capita is only 0.65 square meters.

From the perspective of city scale, the larger the city, the smaller the study area.

Nearly 90% of households in first-tier cities do not have a study room, and the study area per capita is only 0.26 square meters; the study ownership rate in the fifth-tier cities among survey users is more than three times that of the first-tier cities.

Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Nanjing are the top five cities in the bottom of the country's per capita study area.

　　Owning an elegant study room where you can read, write, and make essays, and let your soul return to freedom is a joy in life that many people dream of.

However, 72.8% of households in China do not have a study room, and nearly 90% of families in first-tier cities do not have a study room. The larger the city, the smaller the study room area. These findings are a bit surprising. It turns out that most families have not yet realized "study freedom".

　　However, some netizens said that the larger the city, the smaller the study area, which is not surprising.

The house price is so expensive, one less study room, one less financial burden.

Indeed, the above report investigated the cost of study in various places. In terms of specific cities, the cost of study in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing ranked the top three, reaching nearly 1.1 million yuan, 780,000 yuan, and 750,000 yuan respectively.

With such a high cost of study in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, you can buy a commercial house in the fourth and fifth tier cities. It is no wonder that the per capita study area in the fourth and fifth tier cities can be close to 10 square meters.

　　What we have reflected from "the bigger the city, the smaller the study area", it should not only be the high housing prices, and the poetry of the study can hardly reach the reality; more importantly, we should reflect on whether the bigger the city, the smaller the reading crowd, the vast majority of people in big cities leave "Freedom of study" is far away, but it is very close to "freedom of study".

The larger the city, the more physical bookstores and public libraries, and the richer the book resources and reading activities.

The above report also shows that the average annual cost of buying books in each city ranges from 500 yuan to 800 yuan, and most young people can easily achieve "freedom of reading".

　　Therefore, we should always ask ourselves: Have we read?

Do we love reading?

Reading is not necessarily related to the availability of a study room.

For a long time in the past, due to poor accommodation conditions and generally lack of study rooms, many book lovers still read many books because of their thirst for knowledge.

However, nowadays, the accommodation conditions have improved greatly. Some people have become utilitarian and short-sighted instead of enthusiasm for reading. "Study is hard to find" has become a shield for reluctance to read. Even if there are extra rooms, they would rather be a mahjong room than a study.

　　In fact, for those who love to read, as long as there is a book in mind, there is a study room.

The above report shows that commuting, toilets, bedtime, lunch breaks, morning and dining are becoming people's "second study rooms". Outside, cafes and bookstores have become people's favorite external reading places.

It is hoped that "the study is hard to find" will not become an excuse for our unwillingness to study.