Translation and Annotation of Ouyang's Painful Reading of Small Ancient Prose (The Significance of Ouyang's Painful Reading of this Small Ancient Prose)

Ouyang Xiu lost his father when he was four years old. His family is poor and has no money to go to school. 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 scholar's house in the village to borrow books, and sometimes I take this opportunity to copy them down. He could recite the article before he finished copying it, so that he forgot to eat and sleep day and night. Ouyang Xiu had to study hard. The poetic articles he wrote since childhood are as literary as those written by adults.

Precautions:

1. Selected from Ouyang Gong's deeds, with the title added by the editor.

2. Ouyang Gong: refers to Ouyang Xiu, a writer and historian in the Northern Song Dynasty.

3. Gong Xian: refers to Ouyang Xiu.

4. Loneliness: Losing your father

5. Diptera: refers to plants such as reeds.

Use: use

7. Recite: Recite

8. manufacturing: manufacturing

9. Do for:

10. And: Wait until

1 1. slightly: slightly.

12. Hedgerow: Village and Neighborhood

13. Scholars: scholars

14. Or: Sometimes.

15. Reason: opportunity; Seize the opportunity.

16. Book: Write

17. Poetry Prose: Poetry Articles

Original: Ouyang Gong is four years old, lonely, with poor family and no assets. Mrs. Tai draws the ground with a shovel and teaches it with calligraphy. Recite many ancient chapters. And it's a little longer, and there are no books to read at home, so I borrowed them from scholars or copied them. Even forget to eat and sleep, but reading is a service. Poetry and prose written since childhood, to adulthood.

Ouyang Xiu studied hard, which is one of the allusions of China's diligent study and inspiration in ancient times. It tells the story of Ouyang Xiu, an essayist and lyricist in the Northern Song Dynasty, who grew up in an environment of "four-year-old loneliness, poor family and no assets" and "sleepless nights, reading is the right thing". Ouyang Xiu's diligent experience tells us that "nothing is difficult in the world, but if you put your mind to it", only diligent study can lead to success.