At the age of 28, Beethoven's hearing began to decline due to illness. By the age of 48, he couldn't hear any beautiful songs. He can only communicate with others through writing.
Even so, Beethoven continued to write. His immortal masterpiece, the last seven of the nine symphonies, was written while deaf. Among them, the third, fifth, sixth and ninth symphonies are considered as eternal masterpieces.
He feels human, society and nature with keen observation. In order to draft a piece of music, it often takes him months or even years to deliberate and temper it carefully. For example, he spent eight years composing the fifth symphony.
2. Sun Jing
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a young man named Sun Jing, who was diligent and studious. He studies behind closed doors from morning till night, with little rest. Sometimes it is easy to take a nap in the middle of the night. In order not to affect her study, Sun Jing came up with a way.
He found a rope, one end of which was tied to his hair, and the other end was tied to the beam of the house, so that when he was tired of reading and dozed off, as long as he kept his head down and the rope caught his hair and hurt his scalp, he would wake up from the pain and continue to study. Later, he finally became a famous politician.
3. Five Strong Men of Langya Mountain
In the battle, they were fearless in the face of danger and stopped bravely. When the bullets ran out, they fought back with stones. Facing the approaching enemy, they would rather die than surrender, destroy their guns and jump off a cliff dozens of feet deep without hesitation.
Ma Baoyu, Hu Delin and Hu Fucai died heroically; Ge Zhenlin and Song Xueyi were caught by the branches on the mountainside and survived; The feats of the five soldiers showed lofty patriotism, revolutionary heroism and unyielding national integrity, and were praised by the people as "the five strong men of Langya Mountain".
4. Zhan Tianyou
Jing-Zhang Railway is the first railway in China, which is built and managed by Zhan Tianyou. It connects Fengtai District of Beijing, passes Badaling, Juyongguan, Shacheng and Xuanhua to Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, with a total length of about 200 kilometers. 1905 started in September and was completed in less than four years 1909.
It is the first railway in China designed and put into operation by China people without using foreign capital and personnel. This railway project is arduous. Now it is called beijing-baotou railway, and the former Jingzhang section was the first section of beijing-baotou railway. The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was blocked by the Qing government by colonialists such as Britain and Russia, and Zhan Tianyou was appointed as the chief engineer of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Bureau (later as the general manager of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Bureau).
5. Da Vinci painted eggs?
Leonardo da vinci, a famous painter in Renaissance Europe, loved painting since he was a child. Father? I sent him to Florence, a famous Italian city at that time, to learn from the famous painter Fo Rocchio. The teacher asked him to start by drawing eggs.
He painted for more than ten days. Seeing that he was getting impatient, the teacher said to him, "Don't think it's easy to draw an egg. You know, 1000 eggs are not two identical.
Even the same egg, as long as the shape is different from another angle, the oval outline of the egg will be different. Therefore, if you want to express it perfectly on drawing paper, you have to work hard. "From then on, Leonardo da Vinci devoted himself to studying sketches, and after a long period of hard and diligent artistic practice, he finally created many immortal paintings. ?