This is a fable.
Fable story: the iron pestle is ground into a needle as long as you work hard.
Little strokes fell great oaks. Metaphor as long as you have perseverance and are willing to work hard, you will be able to overcome difficulties and make achievements.
Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, was very playful when he was a child and didn't like learning. His father sent him to school to make him successful. And those classics, books of a hundred schools of thought, are difficult to learn, and he is even more reluctant to learn. Sometimes he would sneak out to play. One day, Li Bai didn't go to school and went to play in a small river. Suddenly I saw a white-haired old woman squatting beside a millstone by the river, grinding an iron bar. Li Bai asked curiously, "What are you doing, old woman?" "I am grinding the needle." The old lady answered while grinding. "Grinding needle! Grind such a thick iron bar into fine needles. When can this be ground! " Li Bai blurted out. The old woman raised her head, stopped and kindly said to Li Bai, "Son, although the iron bar is thick, it can't stop me from grinding it every day. Water drops can wear away stones. Can't iron bars be ground into needles? " Li Bai was moved by the old woman's words. I thought to myself, "Yes, as long as you have perseverance and are not afraid of difficulties, you can do everything well. Isn't reading the same? " Li Bai turned and ran back to school. From then on, he studied hard and finally became a famous poet.
As long as the kung fu is deep and the iron pestle is ground into a needle, it shows that as long as you have determination and are willing to work hard, you can succeed no matter how difficult it is. Song dynasty? I wish you "Yu Fang Sheng Lan? Meizhou? Mill needle creek.
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Song's "Yu Fang Sheng Lan Meizhou Mozhen Creek": Mozhen Creek is at the foot of Xianger Mountain in Meizhou. It is said that Li Taibai studied in the mountains, but he failed and gave it up. Crossing the stream, the old man grinds the iron pestle. The white monster asks him and says, "I want to make needles." Bai said, "What do you get when an iron pestle becomes a needle?" He said: "But it needs in-depth work!" Taibai thought it was interesting, but it was over. He calls himself Wu, and there is Wushiyan beside this stream.
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Mozhenxi is at the foot of Xianger Mountain in Meizhou. According to legend, Li Taibai studied in the mountains, but he gave up and left before he finished reading. After crossing the stream, I saw an old woman grinding an iron pestle. Li Bai was surprised and asked her: The old woman replied, "I want to make needles." Li Taibai asked, "Can you grind the iron pestle into a needle?" The old woman replied, "Just do it well!" Li Bai was moved by her perseverance (will) and returned to the mountain to finish her studies. The old woman herself said that her surname was Wu, and now there is Wushiyan beside Mozhen River.
3. As long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is ground into a needle, and its famous sentence comes from an allusion related to Li Bai. Song Sheng Town: Mo Town Xi, Meizhou Xianger Mountain, unfinished, abandoned. After crossing the stream, every old man can grind the iron pestle. Ask and ask, he also left school. He said his surname was Wu. There is Wu Shiyan by this stream. Mozhen Creek is at the foot of Xianger Mountain in Meizhou. There is a saying in the world that Li Taibai was studying in the mountains, but he gave up and left before he finished reading. After crossing the stream, he saw an old woman grinding an iron pestle. Li Bai was surprised and asked her: The old woman replied, "I want to make needles." Li Bai asked. The old woman replied, "Just do it well!" Li Bai was moved by her perseverance and will and returned to the mountain to finish her studies. The old woman said that her surname was Wu, and now she lives next to Mozhen Creek.