First, the famous sayings about laying the foundation are:

1. If you want to climb the ladder, you must climb from the bottom. -german proverb

2. if you want to reach the top, you must start from the bottom. -American proverb

3. Even if you are particularly clever, you should study from scratch. -turgenev

4. If you want to cultivate profound knowledge, you have to learn from letters. -Japanese proverb

5. Only by studying more and accumulating more on weekdays can we produce high-level creation. -Wang zikun

6. lay a solid foundation and practice basic skills. I think this is the secret of learning mathematics well. -Su Buqing

7. If you want to be knowledgeable, you should read more, copy more and write more. Remember, if a person wants to make achievements in his studies, he must insist on making cards and notes. -Wu Han

2. Examples of laying a foundation are as follows:

1. Wang Xizhi and Mo Chi

When they were young, they learned calligraphy from calligrapher Wei Wei, and they knew the importance of practicing basic skills hard. At the age of twelve, he began to study calligraphy works. As an adult, carefully copy the handwriting of famous artists, because the Japanese recognize that calligraphy is constantly practiced, and the pen and inkstone are washed in the front pond. Over time, a clear pond becomes a pool of ink. Because he attached importance to the foundation and his basic skills were honest, he later reached the peak of calligraphy and was honored as a book saint.

2. Chekhov takes notes at all times

On one occasion, Chekhov, a famous Russian writer, went out for a trip by car. On the way, the passengers in the same car made a very vivid remark while chatting, which attracted Chekhov's attention. He wanted to write down the punch line at once, but unfortunately he didn't bring his pen with him because he left in a hurry.

Just when he was in a dilemma, he had a brainwave, lit the match, then put it out, and recorded the passenger's words in his notebook by using the burnt ash on the matchstick, and he was relieved. Chekhov wrote so many famous works, which is closely related to his usual attention to language accumulation and laying a solid foundation.

3, Tao Zongyi accumulated leaves into a book

After Tao Zongyi's scholar failed to make the list at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, he often sat on the edge of the field and read books during his break from field work. After reading a book for a while, I put it down, walked under a big tree not far away, tore off the leaves and wrote on it. When the leaves were covered with words, he carefully put them under the big tree to dry and then stored them in a crock.

he keeps writing books day after day. In more than ten years, it has accumulated dozens of crocks. In his later years, he asked the students to dig out those crocks and instructed them to copy and sort out the information recorded in the leaves and write a 3-volume Record of Dropping out of Farming in Nancun.

4. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica

In order to complete Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen collected hundreds of scholars, interviewed all directions, went deep into the people and was not ashamed to ask questions. It took me twenty-seven years and three drafts to write this masterpiece.