Ouyang Xiu's Diligent Translation

Commentary: Ouyang Xiu's father died when he was four years old. Ouyang Xiu's mother wrote on the sand with a reed pole and taught him to write. He also taught him to read a lot of ancient texts and let him learn to write poems. When I am old and have no books to read at home, I go to a nearby reader's house to borrow books and sometimes copy them. You can recite the book before you finish copying it. In this way, day and night, sleepless, just concentrate on reading.

My husband was lonely at the age of four, and Mrs. Tai taught him calligraphy with brush strokes. Recite more ancient Chinese chapters and make learning a poem. And a little longer, the family is poor and there is no book to read, so I borrow it from the scholar's family or copy it. Copying may not be necessary, but I can recite this book. Even forget to eat and sleep, but reading is a service. Poetry and prose written since childhood, to adulthood.

Source: The Complete Works and Appendices of Ouyang Xiu written by Ouyang Xiu in Song Dynasty.

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Ouyang Xiu is one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". Although his family was poor, he overcame many difficulties, studied hard and finally achieved something. Ouyang Xiu's experience tells us that as long as we have lofty aspirations and the spirit of hard work, we will certainly succeed.

Ouyang Xiu's fighting spirit deserves our appreciation and study. Ouyang Xiu's success, besides his own efforts, also has a reason to promote his growth: his parents are well educated and strict with him.

Ouyang Xiu lost his father at the age of four and his family was poor. His grandmother painted the land and taught him to write. He is four years old and lonely. He and his uncle grew up in Suizhou, Hubei. When he was young, his family was poor and had no money. His grandmother painted the land and taught him to read. Ouyang Xiu loved reading since he was a child, and often went to the Li family in the south of the city to borrow books and copy. He is talented and diligent, and often recites books before copying them.

Teenagers, like adults, write poems and essays in complicated ways. Seeing the hope of family rejuvenation, his uncle once said to Ouyang Xiu's mother, "It's really strange that my sister-in-law doesn't care about her poor family and her children! Not only do you start with a gate, but you will be famous in the world one day. "

At the age of ten, Ouyang Xiu learned six volumes from Li Jiade's Collected Works of Mr. Changli in the Tang Dynasty, which he loved very much and laid the seeds for the poetry innovation movement in the Northern Song Dynasty in the future. Renzong Tiansheng eight years (1030), Jinshi. The following year, he was appointed as an official of Xijing (now Luoyang) and became a close friend of Mei He, exchanging poems with each other.

In the first year of Jing You (1034), he called the Bachelor's College as Xuandelang and filled in the library for collation. In three years, Fan Zhongyan criticized current politics in the last chapter and was demoted to Raozhou. Ouyang Xiu defended him and was demoted to the county magistrate of Yiling (now Yichang, Hubei). In the first year of Kangding (1040), Ouyang Xiu was recalled to Beijing, and was appointed as the director of the pavilion to collate and compile the Chongwen General Catalogue. Later, he was informed of the suggestion institute.

Li Qing three years (1043), was appointed as the right judge, the imperial edict. Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Fu Bi and others carried out the "Qingli New Deal", and Ouyang Xiu participated in the innovation and put forward the idea of reforming official administration, military affairs and tribute law.