What are the idioms that represent learning and improvement?

1. Dance upon hearing the cock? [ wén jī qǐ wǔ ]?

Explanation: Get up and dance with the sword when you hear the cock crow. Later, it is a metaphor for those who are determined to serve the country and rise up in time.

From: "Book of Jin·Zu Ti Zhuan": "In the middle of the night, I heard the crow of a wild cock, and I woke up and said: 'This is not an evil sound.' Because it started to dance."

Grammar: linkage; used as a predicate; with a complimentary meaning.

2. Study hard and practice hard? [ qín xué kǔ liàn ]?

Explanation: Study hard and train hard.

From: Qin Mu's "Secrets": "After hearing this, his son no longer dared to take a shortcut by chance. After real hard study and practice, he finally became a calligrapher."

3. Meticulous? [ yī sī bù gǒu ]?

Explanation: Meticulous: careless, sloppy. It means doing things carefully and meticulously, without being careless at all.

From: Chapter 4 of "The Scholars" by Wu Jingzi of the Qing Dynasty: "The superior visited the acquaintance and saw that the uncle was meticulous and his promotion was just around the corner."

Example: We are studying There should be a meticulous spirit.

Grammar: subject-predicate form; used as predicate, attributive, complement; with complimentary meaning.

4. Single-minded? [ yī xīn yī yì ]?

Explanation: There is only one mind and no other considerations.

From: "Three Kingdoms Wei Zhi Biography of Du Shu": "I was exempted from being a commoner and moved to Zhangwu County in the first year of Jiaping." Pei Songzhi's annotation quoted from "Du Family's New Book": "Therefore, if you are single-minded, you can take any responsibility. One intention leads to a straight line."

Example: So Peng Guanbao devoted himself to defense matters, and Zhuang Zhijun devoted himself to military equipment. ?

◎Chapter 4 of "Huan Hai" by Zhang Chunfan of the Qing Dynasty

Grammar: conjunction; used as attributive and adverbial; contains praise.

5. Full attention?[ quán shén guàn zhù ]?

Explanation: Cathexis: concentration. All the energy is concentrated on one point. Describes high concentration of attention.

From: "Yi and He" by Ye Shengtao: "He pointed at the patterns embedded in the ball, looking at Yi and looking at the patterns again, telling Yi with concentration and joy."

Grammar: subject-predicate form; used as predicate, attributive, and adverbial; contains commendatory meaning.