Stories of Diligent Reading by Celebrities
Shi Yang rubbed his feet and read at night
Shi Yang, the famous worker leader of the February 7th Strike, had a poor family when he was young. Can't afford lamp oil. There is an ancient temple called Longxingguan in the village. There is an ever-burning lantern in the temple, and he studies in the ancient temple. Winter is cold and my feet feel uncomfortable with cold. At first, he stood up from time to time and stamped his feet. Later, he felt that it was a waste of time, so he whittled a round wooden stick and put it under his feet. .
Lu Xun sold medals
When Lu Xun was studying at the Jiangnan Naval Academy in Nanjing, the school awarded him a gold medal because of his excellent test scores. He did not wear the medal as a certificate to show off himself. Instead, he sold it on Gulou Street and bought back a few beloved books and a bunch of red peppers. Whenever he was reading and reading, when it was late at night and the weather was cold and he felt sleepy, he would pick off a chili pepper, break it into several pieces, put it in his mouth and chew it until he sweated on his forehead, shed tears in his eyes, and "sighed" in his mouth. , my whole body felt warm, and my sleepiness disappeared, so I picked up the book and read it again.
Wang Yanan tied to a pillar and reading
Wang Yanan, my country's famous Marxist economist and the earliest Chinese translator of "Das Kapital", took a boat to Europe in 1933. The passenger ship was sailing to the Red Sea when suddenly huge waves rolled into the sky and the ship was rocking so hard that people could not stand still. At this time, Wang Yanan, who was wearing glasses and holding a book in his hand, walked into the restaurant and begged the waiter: "Please tie me to this pillar!" The waiter thought he was afraid that he would be thrown into the sea by the waves. Go and tie Wang Yanan firmly to the pillar according to his words. After being tied up, Wang Yanan opened the book and read it attentively. When the foreigners on the boat saw it, they all looked at him in amazement and praised him repeatedly: "Ah! The Chinese are so amazing!"
Huang Kan mistakenly took ink as a side dish
In 1915, the famous scholar Huang Kan lectured on Chinese studies at Peking University. He lived in the Datong Apartment in Baimiao Hutong, Beijing, and devoted himself to the study of "Chinese Studies" all day long. Sometimes he would not go out to eat. He prepared steamed buns, chili, soy sauce and other condiments and placed them on his desk. When he was hungry, he would nibble on the steamed buns and read while eating. I stopped eating, and when I saw the wonderful thing, I shouted: "It's wonderful!" Once, I was fascinated by reading, and I actually put the steamed bun into the ink stone and the cinnabar box. When a friend comes to visit and laughs loudly, he still doesn’t know why he is laughing at him?
Cao Yu was really studying and pretending to take a bath
During the Anti-Japanese War, Cao Yu taught at the National Drama Theater in Jiang'an, Sichuan. One summer, Cao Yu's family prepared a bathtub and hot water and asked him to take a bath. At this time, Cao Yu was reading a book and couldn't put it down. He pushed it again and again. Finally, under repeated urging from his family, he took a towel in one hand and another Take the book and walk into the inner room. An hour passed, but no one came out. The sound of water could be heard from time to time in the room. Another hour passed, and the situation remained the same. Cao Yu's family members were suddenly confused. When they opened the door and took a look, they found that Cao Yu was sitting in the bathtub, reading a book in one hand and patting the water intentionally or unintentionally with a towel in the other hand.
Stories of Readings by Ancient Celebrities
1: Kuang Heng, courtesy name Zhigui, was born in Donghai (the name of Han County in the Western Han Dynasty) from the east of Pi County in Jiangsu Province to the sea, and connected with Ziyang County in Shandong Province. People from the east to the sea area). He comes from a farming family, and his grandfather and father have been farmers for generations. He was born in Kuangheng, but he likes to read. When he was young, his family was poor. He worked as a hired worker during the day to make ends meet and had time to study at night. But the family was so poor that they couldn't even light a candle. The neighbor's lamp is bright, but it can't shine. Kuang Heng came up with a way to cut a hole in the wall next to the neighbor's house, "steal" a little light from it, and let the neighbor's light shine through. He held the book and read in front of the cave against the light.
2: There was a man named Sun Jing in the Han Dynasty who was diligent and studious since he was a child. He studied late every night. In order to avoid getting sleepy, he tied his hair with one end of the rope to the pillar and tied the other end to the beam. . During the Warring States Period, there was a man named Su Qin who wanted to do a big career, so he studied hard. Whenever he reads late at night, he always likes to take a nap. So, while he was napping, he pricked his thigh with an awl to cheer him up.
The story of Sun Jing and Su Qin moved future generations. People used "hanging beam to stab the buttocks" to express the spirit of hard study.
3: Che Yin, a native of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was studious and diligent when he was young. He helped the adults work during the day and studied hard at night. However, due to his poor family background, he often had no money to buy oil lamps and could not study well. He was very troubled by this.
One summer night, Che Yin was sitting in the yard silently recalling the contents of the book he had read, when he suddenly discovered that there were many fireflies dancing in the air in the yard. Suddenly something came to his mind. If he gathered these fireflies together, couldn't he use their light to study? So he started to catch fireflies, caught a dozen of them, put them in a bag sewn with white gauze, and hung them on his desk. From then on, he studied hard every day by the fluorescent light.
4: Mr. Ouyang Xiu’s father passed away when he was four years old. His family was poor and had no money for him to study. The wife used reed stalks to draw pictures on the sand and taught him to write. He also taught him to recite many passages from ancient times. When he got older and there were no books to read at home, he would go to nearby scholars' homes to borrow books to read, and sometimes copy them. In this way, I worked day and night, forgetting to eat and sleep, just studying. From his childhood poems and poems, his writing has reached an adult level, which is so high.
5: In the Yuan Dynasty of China, there was a man named Song Lian. He loved reading. Because his family was poor, he had to borrow books to read. As he read more and more books, Song Lian felt that he needed guidance from a teacher, so he He pawned his clothes, went through all kinds of hardships to come to the city, and was admitted to the school. Unexpectedly, the academic officer had a weird temper. After Song Lian went through many twists and turns, he finally succeeded in studying hard.
6: Fan Zhongyan’s father died when he was two years old. My mother was very poor and had no support. So he remarried to the Zhu family in Changshan. (Fan Zhongyan) When he grew up, he learned about his own life, bid farewell to his mother with tears in his eyes, and left to study at Nandu Academy in Yingtian Mansion. (He) studied hard during the day and late at night. In five years, I never took off my clothes and went to bed. Sometimes I feel drowsy at night and often pour water on my face. (Fan Zhongyan) I often study hard during the day and eat nothing until the sun turns west. In this way, he understood the main purpose of the Six Classics, and later set up his ambition to benefit the world. He often preached to himself: "Be worried about the world's worries first, and be happy after the world's happiness."