Digging the wall to steal the light: In the Western Han Dynasty in Kuang Heng, there was a farmer's child named Kuang Heng. He wanted to study very much when he was a child, but because his family was poor, he could not afford to go to school. Later, he learned to read from a relative before he was able to read.
Kuang Heng can't afford books, so he has to borrow books to read. At that time, books were so valuable that people with books refused to lend them to others easily. In the busy farming season, Kuang Heng worked as a short-term laborer for rich families, asking them to lend him books for free.
After several years, Kuang Heng grew up and became the main labor force in the family. He works in the fields all day long, and only when he has a lunch break does he have time to read a little book, so it often takes ten days and a half to finish a book. Kuang Heng was in a hurry, thinking to himself: I have no time to read when I plant crops during the day, so I can spend more time reading at night. But Kuang Heng's family is too poor to buy oil for lighting. What should we do?
One night, Kuang Heng was lying in bed reciting the books she had read during the day. Behind my back, I suddenly saw a ray of light coming through the east wall. He stood up and walked to the wall to have a look. Ah! It turned out that the neighbor's light came through the cracks in the wall. So, Kuang Heng thought of a way: he took a knife and dug a few cracks in the wall. In this way, the light that came through was also great, so he gathered together the light that came through and began to read.
Kuang Heng studied so hard that he became a very learned man.
hanging beam and stabbing stocks: Sun Jinghan, a master of Confucianism in the Han Dynasty, studied very hard when he was a child, and often read late into the night, so he tied his hair on the roof beam for fear of falling asleep. During the Warring States Period, Su Qin, a strategist, failed to lobby the State of Qin. In order to gain fame and fortune, he made a determined effort to study. He studied until late at night every day, and whenever he wanted to doze off, he stabbed his thigh with an iron awl to refresh himself. < P > Ying Ying Xue: Sun Kangjin was poor, and Sun Kangjin studied in the winter night. Che Yin's family is poor, and he practices fireflies in summer nights, reading by the dim light of fireflies. See the Book of Beginners, Volume II, quoting Song Qi Yu and Biography of Jin Shu Che Yin, and then describe it as "snow-catching fireflies", who study tirelessly day and night.