Once upon a time, when Mencius was a child, his father died young, and his mother kept a festival and did not remarry. At first, they lived next to the cemetery. Mencius and his neighbor's children learned to bow down and cry like adults and played a funeral game. Mencius' mother looked at it and frowned: "No! I can't let my children live here! " Mencius' mother took Mencius to the market and lived near the place where pigs and sheep were slaughtered. When they arrived at the market, Mencius and the children in the neighborhood learned that businessmen were doing business and slaughtering pigs and sheep. Mencius' mother knew this and frowned: "This place is not suitable for my children to live in!" "So they moved again. This time, they moved near the school. At this time of the first day of the summer calendar every month, officials go to the Confucian Temple, bow down and treat each other with courtesy. Mencius learned to remember after seeing it. Mencius' mother nodded with satisfaction and said, "This is where my son should live!" " "So I live in this place.
Study hard
Books in the Spring and Autumn Period were mainly made of bamboo. Bamboo is broken into bamboo sticks, called bamboo slips, then dried with fire and written on them. Written on bamboo slips, there are dozens of words to eight or nine words. A book needs a lot of bamboo slips, which are connected in sequence with strong ropes and the like, and then a book is the last one, which is very convenient to read. Usually, those woven with silk thread are called "silk weaving", those woven with hemp rope are called "rope weaving" and those woven with ripe cowhide rope are called "weft weaving". A book as heavy as Yi is, of course, made up of many bamboo slips with ropes made of cooked cowhide.
Confucius "liked the Book of Changes in his later years" and spent a lot of energy reading the Book of Changes many times, with many annotations. I don't know how many times he opened it. It is generally believed that Confucius could read and write in this way, and the cowhide belt of serial bamboo slips was worn off several times and had to be replaced with new ones for repeated use. This is a metaphor for studying hard. After reading this, Confucius still said modestly, "If I live a few more years, I can fully master the text and quality of Yi."
A hole was drilled in the wall to get light from the neighbor's house.
In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a farmer's child named Kuang Heng. He wanted to study very much when he was a child, but because his family was poor, he couldn't afford to go to school. Later, he learned to read from a relative before he could read. Kuang Heng can't afford books, so he has to borrow books to read. At that time, books were so valuable that people who had books refused to lend them to others easily. During the busy farming season, Kuang Heng worked as a short-term worker for wealthy families and asked them to lend him books for free. A few years later, Kuang Heng grew up and became the main labor force in the family. He works in the fields all day, and only has time to read some books during his lunch break, so it often takes ten days and a half months to finish reading a book. Kuang Heng was in a hurry, thinking: planting crops during the day, no time to read, you can spend more time reading at night. But Kuang Heng's family is too poor to buy oil for lighting. What shall we do One night, Kuang Heng was lying in bed reciting the books he had read during the day. Behind me, I suddenly saw a light coming through the east wall. He stood up and walked to the wall. It turned out that the neighbor's lights came through the cracks in the wall. So Kuang Heng thought of a way: he picked up a knife and dug several cracks in the wall. In this way, the light coming through is also very big, so he gathered the light coming through and began to read. Kuang Heng studied so hard that he became a learned man.
Tie your hair to the beam and poke your thigh with an awl to stay awake ―― study hard/diligently.
The idiom "hanging a beam and stabbing a stock" consists of two stories. Hanging beam:
Sun Jing went to Luoyang Imperial College to study. He studies from morning till night every day and often forgets to eat and sleep. After a long time, he would be too tired to doze off, so he found a rope, one end of which was tied to the beam and the other end was tied to his hair. When he dozes off while reading, the rope will pull his hair and hurt his scalp, so that people will naturally not doze off and can continue to study. Since then, he has used this method every night when studying. This is the story of Sun Jing's Hanging Beam. After studying hard year after year, Sun Jing read many poems and became a great scholar.
Sticking stock
When he was young, ambitious Su Qin studied with Guiguzi for many years. In order to gain fame, he sold his family property, bought gorgeous clothes, and went to the State of Qin to lobby King Hui of Qin, hoping to gradually unify China with the skill of Lian Heng, which was not adopted. Because I stayed in Qin for too long, I was exhausted and had to go home in rags. Relatives were cold to him when they saw that he was helpless. Su Qin was ashamed and determined to study hard, so he took out the book Yin Fu given to him by his master and studied hard day and night. He prepared an awl when he was reading. When he dozed off, he stabbed himself in the thigh with an awl, forcing himself to wake up and concentrate on reading. After doing this for a year, he traveled around the world again. This time, Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao and Wei were finally persuaded to "unite vertically" against Qin, and kept the seal of the six countries. Su Qin signed a treaty with six countries to jointly fight against Qin, and issued a treaty to the State of Qin, which made the King of Qin 15 years afraid to peep at Hangu Pass.
Work hard day and night
Sun Kang in Jin Dynasty can't read at night, because he has no money to buy lamp oil, so he must go to bed early. He felt it a pity to let time pass in vain. One night in the middle of the night, he woke up from his sleep, turned his head out of the window and found a ray of light in the window. It turned out to be a reflection of heavy snow, which can be used for reading. So he was so tired that he immediately got dressed, took out his book and went outside. The snow reflected on the wide earth is much brighter than the snow in the room. Sun Kang ignored the cold and immediately read a book. His hands and feet were frozen stiff, so he got up and ran, rubbing his fingers at the same time. From then on, every snowy night, he never missed this good opportunity and studied tirelessly. This spirit of hard work has promoted his knowledge to advance by leaps and bounds and become a knowledgeable person. Later, he became a big official. In the Jin Dynasty, Che Yin was always eager to study, but because of his poor family, his father could not provide him with a good learning environment. In order to maintain food and clothing, there is no extra money to buy him lamp oil for evening study. To this end, he can only use this time to recite poems. One night in summer, he was reciting an article in the yard when he suddenly saw many fireflies flying at low altitude. The flashing light is a bit dazzling in the dark. He thought, if you put many fireflies together, wouldn't it become a lamp? So, he went to find a white silk bag, immediately caught dozens of fireflies and put them in, then tied the mouth of the bag and hung it up. It's not very bright, but it can be used for reading. From then on, as long as there are fireflies, he will catch one to use as a lamp. Because he studied hard and practiced hard, he finally became an official in a high position.
Zhang Yizhu
Zhang Yi was one of the representatives of military strategists in the Warring States Period. When he was young, he often copied books for others. When I meet a good sentence that I have never seen before, I will write it on my palm or my big foot. When I get home at night, I will fold it up and write it. As time goes on, I will integrate the brochure.
Artemisia renmingensis
At the end of the semester, he was fourteen years old and had no regular teacher to study. He is not afraid of travelling long distances and obstacles (looking for a teacher) with a book box on his back. He often says, "If people don't study, why should they succeed?" Sometimes he weaves thatch into a hut near the bamboo forest, cuts Vitex negundo into a pen, and carves the tree juice into ink; At night, I read under the starlight of the moon, and at night, I light the tied Artemisia to illuminate myself (reading). When reading a book, write it on your clothes and record those experiences. The students envied his efforts and exchanged clean clothes with him in turn (to see what he wrote). (Ren Min) Read only the works of Confucian sages. When he died, he warned: "People who love learning are still alive even if they die; Although people who refuse to learn are alive, they are just dead people who don't think, and they have no effect. "
Storage of Persimmons in Zheng Qian
Zheng Qian liked calligraphy when he was young. His family is poor and has no money to buy paper. He often sweeps persimmon leaves in front of Jionji to write. Due to diligence, I have achieved something when I grow up. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty built a Wenguang Pavilion and asked Zheng Qian to be a doctor. He is called "Mr. Wenguang".
Bananas are grown in Huai Su
Huai Su, a monk in the Tang Dynasty, was good at calligraphy, especially cursive script. His family was poor and it was difficult to buy paper, so he planted several plantains in front of his house and practiced calligraphy with leaves instead of paper. His home is called "Green Temple" and planting banana is called "planting paper".
Ouhuamudi
Ouyang Xiu died at the age of four, and the life of orphans and widows was very difficult. His mother kept the festival to teach her son, and had no money to buy a pen, so she used a reed pole to write and draw on the ground and taught her son to read. Ouyang Xiu also studies very hard. Later, he won the Jinshi, and his article became famous all over the world. Among the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, six in Song Dynasty, and almost all the other five came from his door.
Liu Mu River Bay
Han, the wife of Liu Gongchu in the Tang Dynasty, was a model of the official family at that time. In order to let her sons study late into the night, she made powder from Sophora flavescens, Coptidis Rhizoma and bear bile, and made pills to refresh the children in their mouths.
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