1. My daughter is in the first year of high school. Please help me make a book list for her to enrich her extracurricular reading.
When I was in the first year of high school, our Chinese teacher helped us order some books. Generally, it mainly cultivates your reading sense of articles, and the articles in them are not too boring; "Historical Records" and other classical Chinese articles can cultivate reading ability, because the college entrance examination must require archeology; in addition, there are also Lu Xun's prose and famous writers Poems such as Xu Zhimo and Gu Cheng cultivate your appreciation ability; famous books such as "The Old Man and the Sea" are about an old man's love and belief in life; they are written about the life and life of a group of people in a war-torn era. Love, criticizing the dark rule of the Kuomintang.
You can also read other classics such as "The Scholars" and "Humorous Novels by Foreign Masters". You can even learn a little bit of martial arts novels. You don't want to be sophisticated, just to gain something. Those who have just passed the college entrance examination stay. 2. What is the meaning of water dripping through a stone?
Definition
Water keeps dripping downward, and over time it can penetrate a stone. It is a metaphor that as long as you persevere, you can do difficult things with even a small amount of effort. It also means that as long as you have perseverance, keep working hard, and persevere, things will definitely succeed.
Source
Original
"Hanshu Meisheng Biography": "Mountain Tai slips through the stone, and the monopole is thick. Broken stems. Water is not the drill of stone, nor is it the saw of wood. It becomes so gradually."
Later quotation: "Helin Jade Dew" by Luo Dajing of the Song Dynasty. Volume 10: "Guaiya Yuanbijuan said: 'One penny a day, a thousand days a thousand; a rope cuts the wood, and the water drops penetrate the stone.'"
Excerpt from the original text (Classical Chinese Enlightenment Reader):
Zhang Guaiya was ordered by Chongyang. An official came out of the treasury and saw that there was a money under his temple scarf. He asked him that it was the money in the treasury. Guaiya's life stick. The official said angrily: "A penny is not worth mentioning. You can stick me. You can stick me, but you can't kill me!" Guaiya judged with his pen: "One penny a day, a thousand penny a thousand days; a rope cuts the wood, and a drop of water penetrates the stone. . "Zi Xiajian beheaded him with his sword. Excerpt translation: Zhang Guaiya was the magistrate of Chongyang County. A petty official came out of the warehouse. Zhang Guaiya looked at him and saw a copper coin under the turban next to his hair, so he asked him, and he said It's in the treasury. Zhang Guaiya ordered the staff to serve him. The clerk was very angry and said: "How can a copper coin be worth it? You beat me with a stick. You can beat me, but you can't kill me!" Zhang Guaiya wrote the verdict and said: "One day a day." A copper coin, a thousand days is a thousand copper coins; use a rope to saw wood, (over time) the wood will break; if water drips on a stone, (over time) the stone will be penetrated by the water droplets.
"After saying that, I personally took the sword, walked down the steps, and chopped off his head.