Sima Guang studied hard since he was a child. He feels that he has a poor memory, and he is always not as fast as others in memorizing texts and new words. He secretly said, "Let me try to improve my memory!" " So, he tried to read more and recite more texts.
Others recite it twice and three times, and he has to recite it five times and six times. In this way, time is not enough. You have to find time to study after school. Especially in the evening, after playing for a while, he began to read until late.
The next day, I will get up early to do morning reading. Because I stayed up late at night, I often overslept in the morning and delayed reading. "Is there any way to solve this problem?" He wants his mother to wake him up.
But his mother loves him dearly and doesn't want him to study so hard. One day, Sima Guang saw a log in the backyard and had a brainwave. He thought to himself, "There is a way!" Sima Guang wiped the log clean and put it on the bed as a pillow.
There is a piece of wood on his pillow when he sleeps. As soon as he turned over, the wood rolled over and woke him up. In this way, he won't oversleep. One day, my mother found this log on the bed and was going to throw it away. Sima Guang said, "Mother, don't throw it away. This is my police pillow. "
After listening to his explanation, the mother said with emotion, "son, it's good to study hard, but don't tire yourself out!" " Sima Guang replied: "Mom, don't worry, the baby is not a little fool and won't be tired. "
Sima Guang is a playful and sleepy child, so he has been punished by his husband and laughed at by his peers. Under his inculcation, he is determined to get rid of the bad habit of sleepiness. In order to get up early, he drank a full stomach of water before going to bed.
As a result, I didn't wake up in the morning and peed on the bed. So smart Sima Guang made a police pillow out of logs. When I turned over in the morning, my head fell on the bed board and I woke up naturally. From then on, he got up early to study every day and persisted.
Finally, he became a great writer with great knowledge. Due to hard work, Sima Guang 15 had no books to read. When he grew up, he became a minister of the Song Dynasty and edited the famous chronicle Zi Tongzhi Jian.
2. Li Shizhen
During decades of practicing medicine and reading classic medical books, Li Shizhen found many mistakes in ancient herbal books and decided to rewrite a herbal book. In the thirty-first year of Jiajing of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty (1552), Li Shizhen set out to compile Compendium of Materia Medica.
Taking materia medica as evidence, I consulted more than 800 books. During this period, from the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565), I went out to study many times, covering many famous mountains and rivers in Huguang, Jiangxi and Zhili, and found many problems.
In the process of compiling Compendium of Materia Medica, the biggest headache for Li Shizhen is that the shape and growth of drugs are often confused because of the mixed names of drugs. The cursive script of the past, though repeatedly explained.
However, because some authors copy books without in-depth investigation and study, the more they explain, the more confused and contradictory they are, which makes people unable to agree. For example, polygala tenuifolia was called grass by Tao Hongjing, a famous medical scientist in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
Like ephedra, but the color is blue and white, Ma Su thought it was like the Qing Dynasty in the Song Dynasty, and blamed Tao Hongjing for not knowing far-reaching. Another example is a medicine for treating the dog's spine. Some people say it looks like a weed, some people say it looks like a weed, and some people say it looks like a flower. Opinions are very different.
Inspired by his father, Li Shizhen realized that it was necessary to "read thousands of books", but it was more necessary to "take the Wan Li road". Therefore, he not only "accepted" but also "visited the four sides" to conduct in-depth investigations.
After 27 years of long-term efforts, the first draft of Compendium of Materia Medica was completed in the sixth year of Ming Shenzong Wanli (1578) at the age of 6 1. Later, it was revised three times during the period of 10, counting 40 years before and after.
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3. Qi Baishi
Qi Baishi painted shrimps through his life's observation, striving to profoundly express the physical and mental characteristics of shrimps. Qi Baishi began to draw shrimps when he was young. After 40 years old, I copied shrimps painted by painters such as Xu Wei and Li Futang in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
At the age of 63, the shrimps painted by Qi Baishi were very similar, but not "alive" enough, so he raised several long-armed shrimps in a bowl and put them on the painting case. The method of drawing shrimp has also changed, and shrimp has become one of the representative artistic symbols of Qi Baishi.
4. Beethoven
Beethoven was a great German musician. He loved music since he was a child, was open-minded and eager to learn, and was immersed in his creation. He said: "My motto has always been: Never write every day; If I sometimes make the god of art sleepy, it is only to make him more excited when he wakes up. "
Being deaf at the age of 30 is a great blow to musicians. But he never stopped writing. What the students are listening to now is a fragment of Beethoven's symphony Destiny, which expresses Beethoven's determination and courage to fight against the unfortunate fate to the end.
5. Wang Xizhi
Wang Xianzhi practiced calligraphy 18 vats, and Wang Xianzhi practiced hard for five years from the basic strokes according to his father's requirements. My face is dull, and I feel that my writing skills are far from perfect.
He plunged into the study, studied ink every day and studied hard. Clever Wang Xianzhi is deeply aware that there is no shortcut to writing, only the word "diligence".