One day, Tong Dizhou saw a row of pits neatly arranged on the stone steps under the eaves. He felt very strange. After pondering for a long time, he couldn't figure out what was going on, so he asked his father, "Father, who knocked out the small hole in the slate under the eaves?" What is this for? Seeing that his son was so curious, the father said happily, "It was not carved by people, but knocked down by water drops on the eaves. "Little Tong Dizhou is even more strange. Can water knock hard stones out of the pit? Father patiently explained: "Of course, a drop of water can't knock out the hole, but over time, knocking down bit by bit can not only knock out the hole, but also knock out the hole!" "The ancients not often say' drip wears away the stone'! This is the case. " Father's words stirred up ripples in Tong Dizhou's heart. He sat on the stone steps under the eaves, looked at his father and nodded his head.
Due to more farm work, Tong Dizhou lost some interest in learning and didn't want to study. Father patiently enlightened Tong Dizhou and said, "Do you still remember the story of' dripping water wears away a stone'? Small eaves water can knock through hard stones as long as it persists all the year round. Is a person's perseverance not as good as eaves water? Learning knowledge also depends on bit by bit accumulation and perseverance to achieve success. " In order to better encourage Tong Dizhou, his father wrote down the four characters "Drops of water wear away the stone" and said hopefully, "You should take it as your motto and never forget it."
Celebrity information in "dripping water wears away the stone"
1, famous doctor Li Shizhen
Li Shizhen (15 15- 1590), a native of qi zhou Town, Qixian County, Hubei Province, was an outstanding physician, pharmacist, botanist and naturalist in the Ming Dynasty. He wrote more than ten books such as Compendium of Materia Medica in his life, which made great contributions to our nation and mankind.
In order to compile Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen spent almost his whole life making long-term preparations and hard work. Around the age of 30, he made up his mind to rebuild materia medica. He "collected hundreds of books and visited everywhere" and consulted nearly a thousand ancient and modern materia medica, medical books and hundreds of books on classics and history. He also traveled across mountains and rivers, visited many places on the spot and accumulated a lot of information. It took 27 years before and after, and after three major revisions, this historical masterpiece was completed.
Compendium of Materia Medica1.9000 words, recorded drugs 1.892 kinds, divided into 60 categories. Among them, Li Shizhen added 374 new drugs. There are more than 1 100 drawings and more than 1 1000 prescriptions. It is a summary of China's pharmacology for thousands of years. This Pharmacopoeia, no matter from its strict scientific classification, or from the number of drugs it contains and the fluent and vivid writing, far exceeds any ancient herbal works. Compendium of Materia Medica has been translated into Japanese, German, English, French and Russian since the 7th century. People's Republic of China (PRC) Pharmacopoeia published in 1953 contains 53 1 kinds of modern drugs and preparations; There are 100 kinds of drugs and preparations in Compendium of Materia Medica.
3. The great inventor Edison
Thomas Alva Edison is a world-famous American electrician and inventor. Throughout human history, we can find that there are many people who made inventions or discoveries in the history of science and technology, but there are so many inventions like Thomas Alva Edison, who lived for 84 years, but few people dedicated their lives to inventions with perseverance and dedication. He invented electric light, telegraph, phonograph, film machine, magnetic mineral analyzer, crusher and other things for more than 2000 minutes.
4. A generation of painter Qi Baishi
Qi Baishi (1863- 1957) was born in Xiangtan, Hunan. Formerly known as Chunzhi, the word, later renamed Huang, the word is frequent, the real name is Baishi, and the nickname is borrowed from the owner of the mountain museum and given to the old man Ping. He engaged in carving in his early years, and then studied poetry, seal cutting, calligraphy and painting from local cultural celebrities Chen Shaofan and Hu Qinyuan. He used to be a professor of Beijing National Academy of Art, honorary professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts, honorary president of Beijing Painting Academy and chairman of China Artists Association. He was awarded the title of "China People's Artist", won the World Peace Council 1955 International Peace Gold Award, and was elected as "World Cultural Celebrity" on the occasion of his birthday 1963.
In the Song Dynasty, there was a man named Zhang Guaiya who worked as a county magistrate in Chongyang County. At that time, the social atmosphere in Chongyang was very poor, and theft became the norm. Even in the county government of Qian, money is often stolen.
One day, Zhang Guaiya was patrolling the yamen, and suddenly he saw a county magistrate who was in charge of money coming out of the money in a panic. Zhang Guaiya quickly stopped the shopkeeper and asked his entourage to search the shopkeeper. As a result, a copper coin was found in the treasurer's scarf.
Zhang Guaiya took the treasurer back to the lobby for interrogation and asked him how much money he had stolen. The treasurer refused to admit stealing the money, so Zhang Guaiya ordered torture. The shopkeeper refused to accept it and shouted angrily, "What's the big deal about stealing a copper coin? You torture me like this? You can only hit me. Can you still kill me? " Zhang Guaiya was furious when he saw that the shopkeeper dared to contradict himself so much. Without hesitation, he picked up the brush and sentenced him: "One dollar a day, one thousand dollars a day, a rope sawed off, a drop of water wears away the stone." It means stealing a copper coin a day and stealing a thousand copper coins a thousand days. If you keep sawing wood with a rope as a saw, the wood will be sawed off; Water drops keep dripping, which can drip through the stone for a long time.
After the verdict was pronounced, Zhang Guaiya asked the chief to take the treasurer to the execution ground and behead him. Since then, the unhealthy trend of theft in Chongyang County has been curbed and the social atmosphere has greatly improved.