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1. Yue Fei’s martial arts training

The national hero Yue Fei was born in troubled times and his family was poor since childhood. With the support of his neighbors, he studied martial arts with the famous Shaanxi master Zhou Tong. During this period, he witnessed the broken mountains and rivers. The people were displaced, developed the ambition to learn art and serve the country, and overcame their pride and complacency. After practicing hard in the cold and summer, under the careful guidance of the famous teacher Zhou Tong, I finally mastered Yuejia Qiang, and led Wang Gui, Tang Xian and other partners to join the patriotic torrent of fighting against gold and saving the country.

2. Li Guizhen learned to paint tigers

Li Guizhen, a famous tiger painter of the Five Dynasties, liked painting since he was a child, especially tigers. However, because he had never seen a real tiger, he always painted tigers. He became a sick cat, so he decided to go into the deep mountains and forests to visit real tigers. After many hardships, with the help of Uncle Orion, he finally saw the real tiger. Through a lot of sketching and copying, his tiger painting skills improved by leaps and bounds. The tiger in the painting is so lifelike that it almost looks like the real thing. From then on, he spent most of his life traveling to many famous mountains and rivers, seeing more birds and beasts, and finally became a master of painting.

3. Shen Kuo went up the mountain to see the peach blossoms

"The beauty of April in the world is gone, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are beginning to bloom." When reading this poem, Shen Kuo's brows condensed into a knot. , "Why have all the flowers here stopped blooming, and the peach blossoms on the mountain have just begun to bloom?" In order to solve this mystery, Shen Kuo invited a few friends to go up the mountain for an on-the-spot investigation. How is it warm or cold on the mountain in April? The cool breeze hit, making people shiver with cold, and Shen Kuo's spear suddenly bloomed. It turned out that the temperature on the mountain was much lower than that at the bottom, so the flower season came later than down the mountain. With this spirit of exploration and empirical methods, Shen Kuo wrote Mengxi Bi Tan when he grew up.

4. Xu Xiake’s ambition is for the world

One day, a strange thing happened by the river. Many people were salvaging the stone lion that had fallen into the water, but they could not find it. At this time, a child named Xu Xiake said that as long as you go up the river, you can find the stone lions. Sure enough, the stone lion was found, and everyone praised this smart child. It turned out that he was Xu Xiake, who grew up to become a great geographer and traveler.

5. Hua Tuo studied under his master

Hua Tuo, ziyuanhua, was born in Peiguo (now Bo County, Anhui Province) in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. He was a famous medical scientist in ancient my country. . Hua Tuo invented "Ma Fei Powder", a very effective general anesthetic, which was about 1,600 years earlier than Western anesthetics. Hua Tuo made a huge contribution to world medicine. Don't think that Hua Tuo was born as a miracle doctor. Hua Tuo studied medicine when he was a child, went through a lot of hardships, and finally acquired profound medical knowledge and superb medical skills.

6. The inspirational story of ancient celebrity Wang Chong’s reading

Wang Chong was an outstanding thinker with materialistic thoughts and critical spirit in the early Eastern Han Dynasty of my country. "Lunheng" is Wang Chong's representative work. It is also an immortal atheistic work in Chinese history.

When Wang Chong was a boy, his father passed away. Wang Chong did his best to support his mother. Later he came to the capital and studied at Taixue University, where he became a teacher under Ban Biao, a famous scholar at the time. He likes to read widely and is good at grasping key issues, so he makes rapid progress.

Wang Chong is very attentive in reading, and his understanding and memory abilities are very strong, so he can remember the main content of the book after reading it once, and he can even recite some exciting chapters. However, his family was poor and could not afford many books. In order to satisfy his thirst for knowledge, Wang Chong came up with a good way. There were many bookstores on the streets of Luoyang at that time, and Wang Chong decided to use the bookstores as his "library". After breakfast every day, he would bring dry food and go to the bookstores to read the books on sale. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter, rain or shine, he read one book after another and visited calligraphers and bookstores one after another. In this way, he finally read all the important works of various schools of thought and mastered the basic spirit of the books.

Because Wang Chong was born in poverty, his understanding of natural and social phenomena is basically based on the actual life conditions of the hardworking people.

After reading all the major works of various schools of thought, he was deeply dissatisfied with some idealist preaching that served the ruling class and determined to severely criticize it. So I concentrated on thinking independently and started writing a book. In order not to waste time or interrupt his thoughts, he placed pens and papers on the doors, windows, stoves, pillars and even in the toilet, thinking and writing wherever he went. After a long period of hard work, he finally wrote "Lunheng", which is full of critical spirit and shining with the glory of materialism.