The "man" who asked Shao Yong "How am I" was Sima Guang, the one who smashed a jar to save people when he was a child. He is a famous politician, historian, essayist and editor of "A Mirror with Resources" in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the process of compiling "Learning from Mutual Aid", Sima Guang worked diligently, working late into the night every day and getting up early the next day. According to legend, in order to ensure that he didn't oversleep, wake up early and get up early, he specially made himself a "police pillow" out of wood, not a police pillow, but a pillow to alert himself. This "police pillow" is round and lies behind the head in a panic. It moved a little and turned around, and the head that had been resting on it fell off. When it falls, people wake up, don't sleep, get up and continue reading and writing. It is also difficult for him to come up with this trick, which can be comparable to "hanging the beam and stabbing the stocks."
The compilation of Zi Tong Zhi Jian took 19 years, which almost exhausted Sima Guang's life energy. Look at what he said in Zi Zhi Tong Jian: "The day is insufficient, and the night comes next", which is really touching and admirable.
The place where Sima Guang compiled Zi Tong Zhi Jian is called Du Paradise, and the site is in Sima Jie Village, Zhuge Town, yanshi city today, which shows that he has a deep relationship with Luoyang.
Sima Guang has many friends in Luoyang, one of whom is Shao Yong, a master of Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty, who lives in his comfort zone and talks about theory. His history records that "when he was young, he had his own talent, and he was generously eager to become famous." He read everything in the book and began to learn, that is, he worked hard, didn't cook cold, didn't fan the wind in summer, didn't come home at night, and it was like a day for several years. " Shao Yong works as hard as Sima Guang. No wonder they are on good terms.
On this day, Sima Guang came to talk to Shao Yong again, talking about XingChu. Sima Guang asked Shao Yong, "Who is someone?" "How am I?" Shao Old Master Q answered beautifully: "You are a down-to-earth person." Don't think he is flattering. Throughout Sima Guang's life, it really conforms to this evaluation.
2. Down-to-earth work This idiom Ji m: o tà shí di [interpretation] Down-to-earth.
Metaphor is serious, practical and not vain; Step by step. Song Shaoyong's Shao Yong Wen Jian Qian Lu: "Shi Jun (Sima Guang) is also a down-to-earth person."
[Pronunciation] step cannot be pronounced as "tā". A down-to-earth feeling [antonym] Ambitious [usage] includes praise.
Mostly used in work and academics; Also used for others, etc. Generally used as predicate, object, attribute and adverbial.
Subject-predicate type [discrimination] ~ and "due diligence"; Both contain the meaning of "doing things practically".
But ~ is "seeking truth from facts"; Used for studying and doing things; "Conscientious" means "careful; Be careful "; Only for doing things. What the four modernizations need is sincere doers.
Once upon a time, a farmer lost an axe.
He thought it was a neighbor's son who stole it, so he paid attention to what the man said and did everywhere. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that he looked like a thief stealing an axe. Later, the man who lost the axe found it. It turned out that he accidentally lost his way in the valley when he went up the mountain to cut wood the other day.
After finding the axe, he met his neighbor's son again. Look at him again. He doesn't look like a thief. Suspecting neighbors and stealing axes: not paying attention to facts, being suspicious of people and things.
2. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a farmer in Song State. He always feels that the crops in the field grow too slowly. I went to see it today, and tomorrow I feel that the seedlings will never grow tall. He thought to himself: Is there any way to make them grow taller and faster? One day, he came to the field and pulled up the seedlings one by one.
It took a lot of effort to pull up a large number of seedlings one by one. When he finished pulling out the seedlings, he was exhausted, but he was happy. When I got home, I boasted, "I'm exhausted today." I helped Miao Miao grow several inches! " "Hearing this, his son rushed to the field and found that all the seedlings in the field were dead. There was an incorrigible scholar named KATTO in the Zhou Dynasty.
KATTO is not only talented in poetry, but also good at managing state affairs. Later, he was by Zhou Liwang's side to help handle state affairs.
However, Zhou Liwang is arrogant and misinterprets the law. Treacherous court officials try their best to please.
KATTO bluntly advised him and listed the disadvantages of state affairs, but the treacherous court official spoke ill of him in Zhou Liwang's ear. Zhou Liwang is very tired of KATTO. Since then, treacherous court officials have gone in and out, ignoring KATTO.
KATTO was very angry and wrote a poem, which was later included in The Book of Songs. In the poem, he attacked the traitor and said, "There is no cure for evil!" "incorrigible": terminally ill, medicine can't save it.
The latter metaphor is that things are too bad to be saved. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a general named Zong Qiming in Song State. He was brave and ambitious since he was a child.
One day, Zong Yi's uncle asked him what his ambition was, and Zong Yi replied, "I would like to ride the wind and waves." I must break through all obstacles, go forward bravely and make a difference.
After studying hard and working hard, Zong Yi finally became a general who can be good at fighting. Later, people used "riding the wind and breaking the waves" to describe the spirit of facing difficulties. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the north and the State of Chen in the south were bounded by the Yangtze River.
Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty, Prime Minister of Northern Zhou Dynasty, abolished Emperor Jingdi of Zhou Dynasty, established Sui Dynasty on his own. Determined to destroy the State of Chen, he once said, "I am the parents of the whole country. Can I watch the people in the south suffer and not save them because there is a Yangtze River as narrow as a belt? " Later, people used "only a strip of water" to describe that the two places are very close, with only a narrow water area.
6. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Yu Boya, who was proficient in temperament and superb in piano skills. He was a famous pianist at that time. When Yu Boya was young, he was smart and eager to learn. He has learned from others and his piano skills have reached the level. But he always feels that he can't express his feelings about all kinds of things in a superb way.
Boya's teacher knew his idea and took him to Penglai Island in the East China Sea by boat, so that he could enjoy the natural scenery and listen to the waves of the sea. Boya looked up and saw the waves surging and splashing; Seabirds are roaring and singing; The lush trees in the forest are like entering a fairyland.
A wonderful feeling arises spontaneously, as if the harmonious and beautiful music of nature rises in my ear. He couldn't help playing the piano, his voice turned at will, and the beauty of nature was integrated into the sound of the piano. Boya experienced an unprecedented realm.
The teacher told him, "You have learned." One night boating in Boya.
Facing the cool breeze and bright moon, he was full of thoughts, so he played the piano again, and the sound of the piano was melodious and getting better. Suddenly I heard someone screaming on the shore.
When Boya heard the sound, he got out of the boat and saw a woodcutter standing on the shore. Knowing that the man was a bosom friend, he immediately invited the woodcutter aboard and played for him with great interest. Boya played a tune praising the mountains, and the woodcutter said, "How wonderful! Majestic and solemn, such as Mount Tai towering into the clouds! " When he played the surging waves, the woodcutter said, "How wonderful! Vast and boundless, it seems to see rolling water and boundless sea! " Boya was excited and said excitedly, "bosom friend!" You are really my bosom friend. "
This woodcutter is Zhong Ziqi. Since then, the two have become very good friends.
This story comes from Liezi Tang Wen. The idiom "high mountains and flowing water" is a metaphor for bosom friends and wonderful music.
7. A word teacher refers to a teacher who corrects a very key word in an article. This language comes from Tao Yue's Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties in the Song Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty was a very prosperous period in the development of feudal society in China, and literature and art were also very developed, among which poetry was the most representative. At that time, there were not only many poets but also many poems, and the level of art and content was very high.
Among many poets at that time, there was a poet named Miracle. One winter, in vilen after the heavy snow, he saw the plum blossoms proudly blooming, so he wrote a poem "Early Plum" to recite the plum blossoms in full bloom in early winter. There are two lines in this poem: In the former village of Zita Law, several branches opened last night.
He felt very satisfied after writing it. A man named Zheng Gu, after reading this poem written by Miracle, thinks that the meaning of this poem is not exhausted.
So, after repeated thinking and deliberation, he changed these two poems into: In the old village of Zita Law, he opened a branch last night. Because he thinks that since there are several plum blossoms, it can't be considered as early plum blossoms.
Zheng Gu's changes, although only changed the number into a word, only changed a word, but it made the theme of Morning Plum more appropriate and the artistic conception of the poem more perfect. Qi was very appreciative of this change in Zheng Gu. At that time, he called Zheng Gu his own lyricist.
A long time ago, there was a chess player named Qiu. His chess skills are superb. Qiu has two students studying chess with him. A student is very absorbed in learning from the teacher.
The other one didn't. He thinks it's easy to learn chess, so there's no need to be serious. When the teacher explained, although he sat there, his eyes seemed to be looking at the chess pieces, but his heart was thinking, "If I kill a swan in the wild now, it will be a delicious meal."
Because he is always daydreaming and absent-minded, the teacher doesn't listen at all. As a result, although both students are.
Down-to-earth idiom means down-to-earth.
[Interpretation] Step on the ground. Metaphor is serious, practical and not vain; Step by step.
Song Shaoyong's Shao Yong Wen Jian Qian Lu: "Shi Jun (Sima Guang) is also a down-to-earth person."
[Pronunciation] step cannot be pronounced as "tā".
Be down-to-earth.
[antonym] Aim too high
[Usage] It has a positive meaning. Mostly used in work and academics; Also used for others, etc. Generally used as predicate, object, attribute and adverbial.
Subject-predicate type
[discrimination] ~ and "due diligence"; Both contain the meaning of "doing things practically". But ~ is "seeking truth from facts"; Used for studying and doing things; "Conscientious" means "careful; Be careful "; Only for doing things.
5. The down-to-earth allusion is down-to-earth (ji m: o t à shí di).
Explain the metaphor of being practical, serious and not vain.
Appeared in Song Shao Bowen's Record Before Listening 18: "Let me ask Kang Jie:' Who is someone?' Say,' You are a down-to-earth person.' "
Use subject-predicate form; As predicate, attribute, attribute and adverbial; Include praise
Take Yuan Ying's "Flying with Sorrow and Joy" as an example: "He is not a visionary divorced from reality, not an empty talker who talks about Kan Kan, but a fighter."
Synonyms are full of facts.
The antonym is ambitious.
Lantern riddle parachuting and landing
-From Baidu Encyclopedia! Hmm. How interesting
6. Down-to-earth allusions The origin of the idiom "Down-to-earth"
Sima Guang was politically conservative, but he made brilliant achievements in history. The History Book edited by him and the Historical Records edited by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty are two pearls in the history of historiography, which are still respected by the world today.
Zi Tong Zhi Jian records the history of Zhou Shizong 1362 from the Warring States to the Five Dynasties, with 294 volumes, 30 volumes of textual research and 30 volumes of content. Its scale is amazing.
Sima Guang consulted a large number of books and materials in order to compile Zi Tong Zhi Jian. Song Shenzong allowed him to borrow all the books in the stacks of Jixian, Zhao Wen and Museum of History, and also allowed him to borrow books from Longtuge, Tianzhangge and Secret Pavilion. Song Shenzong also took out his collection of more than 2,400 books for Sima Guang's reference. In addition, Sima Guang also consulted a large number of unofficial history, genealogy, anthology, anthology, epitaph and other materials, with 222 kinds of * * *, accounting for more than 30 million words.
Sima Guang's style of study is rigorous and strict with himself. He stipulated that he should review a book every three days. A historical manuscript is 40 feet long, and it is revised 10 feet every day on average. If things are delayed, they must be made up afterwards. Every night, he always let the old servant sleep first, light candles and work until late at night, and get up the next morning to continue his work. Every day, 19 years is like a day. In the evening, he was afraid of oversleeping, so he made a pillow out of logs. The wooden pillow is very smooth. If you move a little, your head will be stiff and wake up. Later people called this kind of pillow "police pillow". Sima Guang's residence was sultry in summer and he couldn't work, so Sima Guang had people dig a big pit in the house and build a basement. The basement is warm in winter and cool in summer, which makes it a good place for him to compile books. At that time, Wang Xuanhui, a big bureaucrat, went to the high-rise building of his famous garden for the summer every summer. People laughed and said, "The Wangs drilled into the sky, and Sima lived in other people's land." Sima Guang's revised manuscript filled two rooms. Huang Tingjian, a calligrapher, once looked through hundreds of volumes and found that these manuscripts were all written in meticulous regular script, without a cursive script.
Sima Guang once asked his good friend Shao Yong, "What kind of person do you think I am?" Shao replied, "He is a down-to-earth person". It means that Sima Guang studied knowledge and worked hard. This is the origin of the idiom "down-to-earth".
Sima Guang spent 19 years compiling Zi Tong Zhi Jian. When he started writing, Sima Guang was 48 years old. When he finished writing, he was already 66 years old. /kloc-Sima guang in 0/9 "hold a candle until late at night, and the police pillow breaks dawn." The long-term work at his desk exhausted his hard work. Just over 60 years old, his eyesight dropped, his teeth fell off and his face was full of fear. Sima Guang died before Zi Tongzhi Jian was published. In order to mourn the great historian, Song Zhezong personally mourned and ordered a grand official funeral for him. People in his hometown, Xia County, Shanxi Province, built a tombstone pavilion and a huge monument for him. This huge monument, together with its pedestal, is nine meters high, which is higher than the emperor's tombstone and headstone. The inscription is engraved with Song Zhezong's imperial seal "Zhong De Bei", and Su Dongpo, a great writer, wrote the inscription.
7. There are examples of success step by step. 1. The eggs painted by Leonardo da Vinci are not graffiti again and again. When he failed, he practiced hard, endured loneliness, persevered, examined his own shortcomings, worked hard on basic skills, and finally became a famous painter.
Second, Gou Jian, the King of Yue, did not lose heart after his failure. He knew that success would not happen overnight, but a down-to-earth style was needed, which led to the myth that "a hard work can be rewarded and more than 3,000 armor can swallow Wu". He Lv, the king of Wu, was defeated because he lacked the down-to-earth style of Gou Jian, the king of Yue. 3. How could Compendium of Materia Medica have been born without Li Shizhen's collection for decades? Without Cao Xueqin's painstaking reading for ten years and several additions and deletions, how could this masterpiece "Dream of Red Mansions" come out? If Hong Zhanhui didn't take care of his own sister for more than ten years, how could he touch the tears of naked women in China? Without 606 studies, syphilis would have killed tens of thousands of people.
Personal flight also needs to be down-to-earth. Zhang Haidi is determined to be a successful person. She was paraplegic since childhood and was dying several times, but she didn't give up.
In the past 20 years, she has learned four foreign languages, translated more than160,000 words, taught herself acupuncture and treated more than10,000 patients. Demosthenes, a famous orator in ancient Greece, was born with a stutter. In order to realize his dream, he practiced pronunciation with stones in his mouth every day and eventually became an eloquent speaker. Examples of extended materials are Chinese vocabulary and pinyin, which means old rules; Conventionality also refers to a representative single thing with similar properties, which is often used to explain.
Word source 1. As usual; Convention. The fourth journey to the West: "When the monster heard about it, he dared not do it. He stopped the door and shouted, "Don't talk back! I eat virgins first all the year round, and this year I eat virgins first.
Pig panicked and said, "Your Majesty, don't move. Don't eat bad examples." Lao She's Four Generations under One Family 47: "He is confident that he is also a good man. According to the example that good people will suffer losses, his old age is difficult to maintain. "
2. Representative individuals in the same kind of things. Lu Xun's Two Hearts, Propaganda and Responsibility: "This is just an example, and there are many similarities."
Liu Qing's "Iron Wall" Chapter 6: "This kind of model example of supporting the army should be published." Explanations of other related modern Chinese dictionaries 1. Something used to help explain or prove a situation or statement.
2. Things that happened before and can be imitated or used for reference in the future. 3. Practice and reference.