Sima Guang, an ancient China writer, used a log as a pillow to wake himself up and continue writing, and named it "Police Pillow". Mayakovski, a famous Russian poet, often used a large piece of firewood as a pillow to prevent himself from sleeping too long. Inventor Edison often stays up late to work. He was really sleepy, so he put the books on the table as pillows.
2, Newton-forgot to eat
Newton, a great British physicist, once invited a friend to dinner at home. The food was ready, but before his friend arrived, he went into the laboratory and concentrated on the experiment. When my friend came, I couldn't find Newton. Because he was in a hurry to go to work, he finished his meal alone, put the leftover chicken bones in the box and left. In the evening, Newton finished his experiment and prepared to eat.
But when he saw the chicken bones in the box, he showed an epiphany and said with a smile, "I thought I hadn't eaten yet, but I have already eaten."
3. Li Bai-iron bars are ground into needles.
Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, read those classics and history books when he was young. Those books are very profound. He couldn't go on reading for a while, and felt bored, so he left his book and played truant. He wandered around and looked around. He saw an old woman sitting on a low stool on the grindstone, grinding up and down on the grindstone with a big iron bar in her hand, absorbed, and didn't notice that Li Bai squatted down in front of her.
Li Bai didn't know what grandma was doing, so he asked curiously, "Grandma, what are you doing?" "sharpen the needle." Grandma didn't look up, but simply answered Li Bai, still grinding the iron bar in her hand seriously. "sharpen the needle?" Li Bai was puzzled. What grandma grinds in her hand is obviously a thick iron bar. How could it be a needle? Li Bai couldn't help but ask again: "Grandma, the needle is very, very small. What you are grinding is a thick iron bar!" " "
Grandma said while grinding, "I just want to grind this iron bar into tiny needles." "What?" Li Bai has some accidents. He blurted out, "Can such a thick iron bar be ground into a needle?"
At this time, the grandmother looked up at Xiao Li Bai kindly and said, "Yes, the iron bar is thick and big, and it is very difficult to grind it into a needle." But I insist on grinding every day. One day, I will grind it into a needle. Son, as long as you work hard, iron bars can be ground into needles! "
Thought of here, Li Bai was deeply ashamed and his face was burning. So he began to run home, went back to his study, opened books he didn't understand, and continued reading.
4. Wang Xizhi-practicing calligraphy hard?
Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher in Jin Dynasty, practiced calligraphy hard. According to legend, he studied hard in Lanting, Shaoxing for twenty years.
Once, his son Wang Xianzhi asked him the secret of writing. He pointed to the eighteen water tanks at home and said, "You will know the secret of writing after you finish writing the water in these eighteen water tanks." Wang Xianzhi really finished writing Eighteen Tanks of Water and became a great calligrapher.
5. Li Shizhen? -Compendium of Materia Medica
In order to compile Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen spent almost his whole life making long-term preparations and hard work. Around the age of 30, he is determined to rebuild materia medica. He "gathered hundreds of scholars and visited everywhere" and consulted nearly a thousand ancient and modern materia medica, medical books and hundreds of books on classics and history.
He also waded through mountains and rivers, visited many places on the spot, and accumulated a lot of information. It took 27 years before and after, and after three major revisions, this historical masterpiece was completed.
Compendium of Materia Medica1.9000 words, recorded drugs 1.892 kinds, divided into 60 categories. Among them, Li Shizhen added 374 new drugs. There are more than 1 100 drawings and more than 1 1000 prescriptions. It is a summary of China's pharmacology for thousands of years.