Looking at the past and present, historical stories have always been a bridge to inherit history and look forward to the future. Here are a few stories about the diligence of ancient celebrities that I recommend for everyone.
Story of Diligence of Ancient Celebrities 1: Qian Weiyan loves books
Qian Weiyan is indeed a strange person when it comes to reading. When he was an official in Luoyang, Qian Weiyan once told Ouyang Xiu and other officials: "I love reading the most in my life." I read history while sitting, read novels while lying down, and read short stories while going to the toilet. I never put down the book in my hand for a moment. ?
What Qian Weiyan said is very good. Reading requires not only diligence, but also different attitudes toward different types of books.
The classics and history are what the sages said, and they are the road to governing the world. Only by sitting upright can you read calmly and show respect for the sages. Novels and poems can be more casual, you can read them while lying down, or you can read them in the toilet. If a person studies just for work or for promotion and salary increase, it will be boring and lose the joy of reading.
Ouyang Xiu admired Qian Weiyan's view of reading. Many years later, Ouyang Xiu also became a famous article writer and a leader in the literary world. When people asked Ouyang Xiu the secret of his success, Ouyang Xiu said: "Most of the articles I have written in my life are on Sanshang."
The so-called right away, on the pillow, or in the car. ?I have to go to work and deal with official duties during the day, so I naturally don’t have time to think about writing articles and poems. I can only use little bits of time. In the Song Dynasty, many people rode horses when entering the court, so they were conceived immediately. Before going to bed, review the results of the next day, and you can also think about it. You can't do business anyway when you go to the toilet, so you can make full use of it by writing poems and compositions. It can be said that Ouyang Xiuqing was better than a master. He spent all his time studying and was called the most diligent scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Stories of Diligence of Ancient Celebrities 2: The Story of Bai Juyi’s Diligence in Studying
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a young genius named Bai Juyi who wrote many poems.
Bai Juyi began to compose poetry at the age of five or six, and was very familiar with the rhyme of poetry at the age of nine. His mother was a loving, strict and educated woman who served as Bai Juyi's first teacher.
No matter day or night, she always teaches her son with poems and books. However, after all, children are children and they can be lazy sometimes. At this time, his mother did not beat or scold him, but reasoned and urged him to make up for the missed study tasks bit by bit.
In this way, Bai Juyi gradually developed a good habit of diligent study.
One time, he brought some of his new works to the then famous poet Gu Kuangfu. Gu Kuang glanced at the famous post casually, and when he opened it, his eyes changed. As if being attracted by a magnet, I couldn't help chanting with full charm: "The wild fire will not burn out, but the spring breeze will blow it again." ?Wow, good! It is not difficult for a person who can write such a poem to live anywhere! Come in quickly! Come in quickly!?
I saw that the person who wrote the poem turned out to be a A young man happily talked about writing poems with him, and unknowingly he talked about the dark night! Bai Juyi was only 16 years old this year.
From then on, the name of this young genius who could write poetry suddenly spread in Chang'an City.
The poems written by Bai Juyi are so vivid and smooth that even an uneducated old woman can understand them. But who could have imagined what kind of genius he had and how much effort he put into learning and writing poetry.
After becoming famous, Bai Juyi has stricter requirements on himself. He still kept reading, writing and reading every day... Bai Juyi left more than 3,000 poems to later generations and became one of the poets who wrote the most poems in the Tang Dynasty.
Stories of Diligence of Ancient Celebrities 3: Cutting Porridge and Ending the Calamity
While studying at Liquan Temple, his stepfather’s family situation was already in dire straits, and Zhong Yan knew it well. Every time he left home to go to the temple, his mother always advised him to bring more grain and rice. Firstly, she was worried that her son would not have enough to eat and would be exhausted, and secondly, she was afraid that it would increase the burden on the master of the temple. But every time Fan Zhongyan didn't bring more, and the quantity he brought was unexpectedly small. When his mother nags advice, Zhong Yan always says confidently: "I know quite a few." ?
When I first arrived at the temple, I gave the grain and rice to the kitchen to make it on my behalf, and ate with the monks to the sound of the temple bells. But Fan Zhongyan, who was absorbed in reading and thinking from morning to night, often turned a deaf ear to the sound of the bell and forgot to eat. When he went to get food again, the hour had passed.
Seeing Fan Zhongyan forgetting to eat and sleep, the kind-hearted chef or young monk took the initiative to bring him food. Zhongyan felt very sorry for causing trouble to others.
In order to make it easier for him to study, he prepared a small pot and stove to cook for himself. Fan Zhongyan followed his own plan and measured the rice, added water, lit the firewood he collected in the small stove every night, and cooked rice porridge. While reading, I added firewood to cook porridge. A pot of rice porridge was cooked and it was already past midnight, so he put on his clothes and went to bed. When I woke up early the next morning, the rice porridge in the pot was completely cold and had solidified into a round shape.
He took out his knife and made a cross on the solidified porridge. The complete pot of porridge was divided into four pieces. Eat two pieces in the morning and two pieces in the evening, two meals a day. This is "Porridge".
What vegetables should be used to accompany the meal? The vegetables are in the mountains surrounding the temple.
Wild leeks, wild onions, wild garlic, wild celery, as well as more than ten kinds of edible wild vegetables such as amaranth, bitter chard, shepherd's purse, dandelion, kingbuliu, and artemisia grow naturally on the slopes, ridges, ditches and ridges.
When I went to the cave to study during the day, I pulled some wild vegetables back. When eating, chop a dozen wild leeks, wild onions, or wild garlic into fine pieces, add a little salt, mix well, and a meal is ready.
This is "duanqi", qiji, chopped leeks, onions, garlic, etc. Drawing porridge to cut off the bones is simple and light, saving time, effort and money. It can be said to be Fan Zhongyan's creation! For three years at Liquan Temple, Fan Zhongyan basically lived a life of poverty and self-discipline. With the display of Fan Zhongyan's glorious achievements on the historical stage of the Northern Song Dynasty, "the porridge is broken and the bones are broken" has become a special idiom referring to Fan Zhongyan's hard study in his youth.