1. Che Yin’s reading at night
Che Yin was a famous official in the Jin Dynasty and was famous for his erudition. He has been diligent and studious since he was a child, but his family is very poor and sometimes cannot even afford oil for lighting lamps. In this way, Che Yin could not study at night, and he was very distressed about this.
One summer night, Che Yin sat boredly outside the house enjoying the cool air. At this time, the fireflies flying around in the grass caught his attention. The flashes of light on those little bugs looked like lights.
He quickly found a small bag made of white gauze, caught dozens of fireflies in one breath and put them in his pocket. When the light from so many bugs is gathered together, isn’t it just a small lamp? Che Yin took this "lamp" and happily went into the house to study. In this way, Che Yin finally became a learned man after years of hard study.
2. Chiseling through walls to steal light
Kuang Heng, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, loved reading since he was a child. But the family is very poor and they don’t even have enough to eat. How can they have money to go to school? He had to work during the day and study by himself at night. What should I do if my family doesn’t have money to buy lamp oil?
Kuang Heng did not give in to the difficulties and came up with a way: he cut a small hole in the wall and read and study using the weak light from his neighbor's house. He worked hard, learned a lot of knowledge, and later became prime minister.
3. The eighty-two-year-old number one scholar
Liang Hao was from the Five Dynasties era, but he was the number one scholar in the Song Taizong era. He has been going to Beijing to take exams since the third year of Tianfu (938) in the Later Jin Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, and went through two short dynasties, the Later Han Dynasty and the Later Zhou Dynasty. Although he failed many times in the exam, he never cared about it and always said mockingly: "Take one exam and I will be one step closer to the number one scholar."
Until the second year of Emperor Yongxi of the Song Dynasty (985) , he was admitted to Jinshi and was selected as the number one scholar. He took the first-class examination for forty-seven years and participated in forty examinations. He was already an old man with white hair when he won the first prize.
In the main hall, Taizong asked him his age, and he claimed: "Haosou is poor in scriptures, and he is eight years old when he is young; Qingyun is lucky, and he is two years older than Taigong." He said that he was eighty-two years old. Years old. Just two sentences contain the hard work and bitterness in the geometry examination room.
4. Helen Keller persevered for her dream
Helen Keller was blind in both eyes and deaf in both ears, but she worked hard to transform from a sympathetic and unknown little girl into a A strong woman respected by the whole world. If life is really unfair, then life is extremely unfair to her.
She can give up her dream and hide in a dark corner and cry loudly, and no one will blame her. She can also lie on the bed or sit in a wheelchair and be served by others like a vegetable.
But she didn't do any of this. She just struggled to learn Braille with the help of the teacher and touched things, relying only on her never-give-up belief and perseverance. She painted her ideal sky with the brightest colors in life.
5. Su Xun worked hard
Su Xun was a famous writer in the Song Dynasty and one of the eight great writers of the Tang and Song Dynasties. He was very playful when he was a child. It was not until he was twenty-seven that he realized the importance of studying. From then on, he began to study vigorously and seize all time to study. One year during the Dragon Boat Festival, Su Xun got up in the study room to study. His wife brought a plate of rice dumplings and a plate of sugar into the study.
At nearly noon, when the lady was preparing the plate, she found that the rice dumplings had been finished, but the sugar in the plate was still intact, and there were a lot of glutinous rice grains on the left and right inkstones. It turned out that Su Xun was just immersed in studying and mistakenly mistook the inkstone for a sugar dish. It is with this spirit of carefulness and hard work that Su Xun became a literary master.