My son is reading a book about idioms and allusions. Suddenly, he said, "Dad, if there is a power failure in the future, I can make it visible in the house."
I was shocked: "What good method?"
"Just cut a hole in this wall."
I am a little puzzled: "What? … …"
My son was so proud that he quickly opened the story of "Digging the Corner to Excuse me" for me. ...
I have to explain to him the true intention of this allusion. ...
Yes, there are many touching hard-working allusions in the history of our country, and their hard-working spirit is worth learning. Examples are as follows:
1, poaching for light
Ge Hong, a Taoist theorist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, wrote Miscellanies of Xijing in the name of Liu Xin in the Han Dynasty. This book records the story of Kuang Heng: Kuang Heng is naive and eager to learn. But my family is poor and I want to study at night without candle lighting. The neighbor's house is always lit by candlelight at night, but unfortunately, this light can't reach his room in Kuang Heng. What shall we do? Kuang Heng dug up the wall next to his neighbor's house to attract the candlelight of his neighbor to study. Later generations refer to "digging the wall down, stealing light, digging the wall to borrow light, borrowing light" and so on, and sometimes it is extended to ask for advice from others.
2, high wheat
In the later Han Dynasty, there was a scholar named Gao Feng in Nanyang. When he was young, he "cultivated the fields at home", but he "concentrated on reading day and night". Once, Gao Feng's wife was working in the field while the wheat was drying in the yard. In order to prevent chickens and dolphins from spoiling food, his wife asked Gao Feng to take care of it at home. Suddenly, it began to rain heavily. At this time, Gao Feng was still chanting with a bamboo pole for driving chickens. Unconsciously, the rain washed away the wheat in the yard. After a while, Gao Feng's wife came back from other places. At first glance, alas! It's terrible. The wheat was washed away by the rain, but the husband was still wandering in the book, oblivious. In the voice of his wife's questioning, Gao seemed to wake up from a dream. Later, people called it "Liu Mai, Atrium Mai" and so on, and called "Liu Mai's" a bookworm.
3, Su Qin thorn stocks
Su Qin, a famous social activist and diplomat in the Warring States period, once returned to his hometown because of repeated unsuccessful lobbying for the king of Qin. After returning home, his wife didn't get out of bed to meet him, his sister-in-law didn't cook for him, and his parents didn't even talk to him. Su Qin was ashamed of it, but he studied hard. "After reading, I want to sleep, so I stab myself with a cone, and my blood flows to my feet ..." Later generations used "stabbing, pointing and holding" to describe hard work and self-motivation.
4, cutting pu into a mold.
In the Han Dynasty, there was a man named Lu Wenshu. When he was a child, his father told him to herd sheep. When he was herding sheep, Lu Wenshu cut some cattail grass. When he got home, he wove cattail grass into strips for writing. Later generations used "cutting cattails, cutting cattails, weaving cattails and writing cattails" to refer to hard work.
5. Read for more than three times
During the Three Kingdoms period, there was a man named Dong Yu who often taught students to read in their spare time. The so-called "three surpluses" means "those in winter are at leisure, those in the night are at leisure, and those in the rain are at leisure." After that, "Sanduo" generally refers to free time. It is often used to refer to reading and to cherish time.
6. Tao Kan's luck
During the Jin Dynasty, Tao Kan, an official in the autumn, often moved bricks out of the house in the morning and came back when it was dark. Riding a bike is tireless. Some people don't understand what it means after reading it, so they ask why. Tao Kan replied, I'm afraid I'm used to idleness and I can't do great things in the future. Later, people used "cloud respect" to express inspirational diligence, not afraid of return; Use "transporting bottles and cans, transporting bottles and transporting people" to describe restless and hard-working people.
7. Smell the chicken dancing
The Biography of Zu Di in the Book of Jin records such a thing: Zu Di and his good friend Liu Kun are "both ministers of state", and they often encourage each other and are determined to serve the country. The two of them often "sleep together" and get up to practice martial arts when they hear chickens crow in the middle of the night. Later generations used "smelling chickens and dancing" as a metaphor for people with lofty ideals to eat, drink and be merry in time.
8. Linchi Snow Tree
When Zhang Zhi, an ancient calligrapher, practiced calligraphy, he wrote words on all the clothes and silks at home, then washed, boiled and repeatedly made them, dyeing the water in the pool black. Finally learned a beautiful cursive script. Later generations used "Linchi to learn calligraphy and practice calligraphy" to describe hard study of calligraphy.
9, hanging beam study hard
In ancient times, there was a diligent and studious man named Sun Wenbao. He always studies hard day and night. When he was tired and needed to sleep at night, Sun Wenbao was still afraid of oversleeping and wasting too much time, so he tied his hair to the beam of the roof with a rope. As long as his head shook, he could wake up and continue to study hard. Finally, he became a "contemporary scholar". Later generations used "hanging beam, hanging head" to express hard work and make progress.
10, Sun Kang welcomes snow.
Shan Li, a great scholar in the Tang Dynasty, quoted Sun Shi's Record as saying that "the family is poor, always reflecting snow, reading and making friends" when commenting on the sentence "Picking fireflies and reflecting snow, compiled by Xiao Tong in the Southern Dynasties". Later generations used "Sun Kang and Xue Ying, Xue Ying studied, Xue Ying and Zhao Xue" to express diligent study.