Examples of famous people who have lived to learn are
1. Qi Baishi
Qi Baishi’s main achievements in calligraphy are running script and seal script. When Qi Baishi was 89 years old, a few official script works appeared, which were deep and ancient. Around the age of 93, he became very interested in the Sui Dynasty's "Cao Zijian Stele". According to Qi Liangchi's article "Father Qi Baishi and My Artistic Career", Qi Baishi began to visit the "Cao Zi Jian Stele" in the Sui Dynasty in his 90s, and he continued to visit the pond.
Judging from the 93-year-old couplet "Dragon Flying, Luan and Phoenix Presenting Auspiciousness" collected by the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, we can see that at that time he had already borrowed from "Cao Zi Jian Stele" and used a mixture of regular script, official script and seal script. Create calligraphy.
2. Hua Luogeng
In his later years, Hua Luogeng still rushed to the front line despite his old age and frailty. He has also been invited to give lectures in Europe, the United States and Hong Kong many times. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Nancy in France, the University of Illinois in the United States, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was also unanimously elected as a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences in 1984.
3. Yu Guangyuan
In 2001, the 86-year-old famous economist Yu Guangyuan began to use computers and established his own website. In 2006, at the age of 91, he started a blog and became a "blogger". In his later years, Yu Guangyuan pursued his studies with an optimistic attitude towards life. He spent a lot of time sitting in front of the computer every day. In addition to eating and sleeping, he basically wrote, studied, played and lived happily on the computer. He said that before his 100th birthday, he would publish 100 books. At the age of 91, he had published 80 books.
4. Solon
Solon won the title of "The First Poet of Athens" in his early years; before and after the implementation of the "Solon Reform" that destroyed the clan system, he traveled around and inspected; in his later years He retired at home, engaged in research and writing, and often chanted "Live and learn" to encourage himself. Rousseau, the French enlightener in the 18th century, quoted and developed Solon's famous saying in his later work "The Reveries of a Solitary Walker". Since then, Solon's famous saying has been passed down to this day.
5. Wu Chengen
Wu Chengen wrote "Journey to the West" in his seventies. When Wu Chengen was a boy, he became famous in his hometown for his outstanding literary talent. He was good at painting, calligraphy, and loved to write lyrics. Du Qu is also very proficient in Go. However, he failed in the scientific examination and did not become a "Sui Gongsheng" until his middle age. Later, he lived in Nanjing and relied on selling literature to support his family for a long time. After the age of 30, he had already "filled his chest" with the anecdotes he was searching for, and he had plans to create.
When he was about 50 years old, he wrote the first dozen chapters of "Journey to the West", but then stopped for many years for some reasons, until he resigned in his later years and returned to his hometown, where he tried his best to complete "Journey to the West".