1. To turn learning into poetry is the meaning of creation. "Recite more ancient chapters and turn learning into poetry" comes from "The Complete Works of Ouyang Xiu·Appendix".
2. Original text Ouyang Gong was orphaned at the age of four, and his family was poor and had no resources. The lady painted the ground with grass and taught calligraphy. Recite more ancient passages. It was a little longer, and there was no book to read at home, so the scholars in Luli borrowed it and read it, or copied it. So much so that he forgets to sleep and eat day and night, only studying is his main task. He has written poems and texts since he was a child, and he has written like an adult.
3. Translation: Ouyang Xiu's father died when he was four years old. His family was poor and had no money to buy paper, so his mother used a reed pole as a pen and scratched it on the ground to teach him to write. He read many articles by ancient people, and his mother taught him to write poems. As he grew up, he longed to acquire more knowledge, but there were no books to read at home, so he went to borrow books from nearby scholars' homes to read. Good poems and essays are copied down. I copied and recited it at the same time, and I could recite it before I finished copying it. He read a lot of books obsessively, to the point where he forgot about food and sleep, devoting himself to reading. The poems and articles he wrote have reached the level of ordinary adults.