Huang Luzhi studied hard
Huang Luzhi was a Jinshi, calligrapher and writer in the Song Dynasty. When he was young, in order to improve his writing skills, he found a large number of books from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, and studied them day and night.
One day, he went to Xiangguo Temple in Kaifeng and got a first draft of "History of the Tang Dynasty" written by Song Zijing, and he read it eagerly. Song Zijing had revised many places in this first draft, and some words could no longer be read. Cleared. The blank space on the manuscript paper was densely filled with small characters that were difficult to read. Huang Luzhi did not retreat and studied carefully with tenacious perseverance.
After careful study and research on the words and sentences that Song Zijing changed, from word choice and sentence making, imitation of sounds, to rhetorical use of words and expressions to express ideas, he copied the words before modification into a notebook, and then Copy the revised text into a notebook. Compare before and after, explore the mystery of the author's deletions and additions, clarify the reasons for the complexity and simplicity, and find out the reason and intention of the modification. Huang Luzhi's writing level improved day by day and he became an outstanding writer.