1. Wang Yanan was ambitious and loved reading when he was a child. When he was in middle school, in order to gain more time to study, he cut off one leg of the wooden bed he slept on by half a foot to make it a three-legged bed.
Reading late at night every day, when he was tired, he went to bed and took a nap. Then he turned over in a daze and the bed tilted toward the short leg. This happens every day, without interruption.
As a result, he achieved excellent results every year and was known as one of the three outstanding heroes in the class. Because he studied diligently when he was young, he finally became an outstanding economist in our country.
2. When Zhuge Liang was a boy, he studied under Mr. Shui Jing, Sima Hui. Zhuge Liang studied hard and was diligent in using his brain. Not only Sima Hui appreciated him, but also Sima Hui’s wife also valued him and liked his hard work. A boy who is studious and good at using his brain. At that time, there were no clocks and sundials were used to keep time, and there was no sun on rainy days.
Time is difficult to control. In order to keep track of time, Sima Hui trained the rooster to crow on time by feeding it regularly. In order to learn more, Zhuge Liang wanted his teacher to extend the lecture time, but his teacher always took the rooster's crowing as the criterion. So Zhuge Liang thought: If the rooster crowing time is extended, the teacher's lecture time will also be extended.
So he brought some grain in his pocket when he went to school. When the chicken was about to crow, he would feed it some grain, and the chicken would stop crowing once it was full.
After some time, Mr. Sima wondered why the chicken didn't crow on time. After careful observation, he found that Zhuge Liang fed the chicken when it was about to crow.
My husband was very angry at first, but soon he was moved by Zhuge Liang's studious spirit. He cared more about him, valued him more, and had no reservations about his education. And Zhuge Liang was even more diligent. Through Zhuge Liang's own efforts, he finally became a well-educated man with knowledge of astronomy and geography.
3. Confucius studied diligently throughout his life. In his later years, he especially liked the Book of Changes. The I Ching is difficult to understand and difficult to learn, but Confucius was not afraid of hardship and read it over and over again until he understood it.
Because in Confucius' time, paper had not yet been invented, and books were written on bamboo slips or wooden slips, which were bulky and heavy. Many bamboo slips were woven together with leather strips to form a book. Because Confucius studied hard and displayed his slips so many times that his leather strap was broken three times. Later, people coined the idiom "Weibian Sanjue" to convey Confucius' diligent and studious spirit.
4. The families of Che Yin, Sun Kang, and Kuang Heng of the Jin Dynasty were all very poor and could not even afford oil for lighting lamps. On summer evenings, Che Yin made a small bag with gauze, caught some fireflies and put them in it, and read a book by the light emitted by the fireflies.
Sun Kang sat in the snow on a cold winter night and read hard using the reflection of the snow; Kuang Heng cut a small hole in the wall and "stole" a little light from his neighbor's house to read. The idioms "The firefly reflects the snow" and "The wall is cut to steal the light" tell these stories.
5. Wang Xizhi, the great calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, practiced calligraphy hard since he was a child. Every time he finished writing, he would go to the pond in front of his house to wash his brush. Over time, the pool of clear water turned into a pool of ink.
Later, people called this pond "Mochi". Through diligent study and practice, Wang Xizhi finally became a famous calligrapher and was known as the "Sage of Calligraphy".