Ban Chao joined the army at the age of 40, which shows his ambition. We should learn from Ban Chao, set high aspirations from childhood, and strive to realize our ideals. Become a pillar of strength and serve the motherland. According to this allusion, later generations derived the idiom "Join the army with a pen".
Joining the army with a pen (pinyin: tóu bǐ cóng róng) is an idiom, which comes from the biography of Ban Chao in the Southern Dynasties and the Song Dynasty. To throw away your pen and join the army is to throw away your pen and join the army; Metaphor literati give up cultural work and join the army. With praise; Generally used as predicate and attribute in sentences.
The origin of the idiom: Biography of Ban Chao in the Southern Dynasties: "In the fifth year of Yongping, Brother Gu was called as the school book lang, and Chao and his mother followed him to Luoyang. Poor family, often supported by official and servant books. After working hard for a long time, he dropped out of school and sighed,' Although a gentleman has no ambition, he should still serve Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian in a foreign country to get a title and make them stay for a long time.' "
About the author:
Ye Fan (398 ~ 445) was born in Yang Shun County, Yang Shun (now Qiaozhen Town, Xichuan County, Henan Province). Famous historians, writers and officials in Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasty. The great-grandson of Wang Fan, the general of Anbei in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the grandson of Fan Ning, the satrap of yu zhang, and the son of Fan Tai, a courtier. Ye Fan was born in Yang Shunfan's family and read widely. Yuan Xi two years (420 years).
After Emperor Song Wudi acceded to the throne, he took Changshi as the leader (Liu Yikang) and moved his secretary Cheng and Xincai Taishou; In the ninth year of Yuanjia (432), he offended Stuart Liu Yikang and was demoted as the satrap of Xuancheng. Start writing the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, General Ganingshuo. In the 17th year of Yuanjia (440), he took refuge in Shixing Wang Liujun, and successively served as Xuzhou Changshi, Nanpi Taishou, General and Prince Zhan.