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When Rong was young, he studied in a room on the west side of Yanghui Hall. He bent down to read and raised his head to think; when he thought about something, he often got up and circled around the room. There is a depression in the room, and there is a ruler, which is soaked in a wide area. Every time I walk on it, I stumble hard. After a long time, it was settled. One day, his father came to the room, and he smiled and said, "If one family cannot be cured, how can the world be governed by the country?" He ordered the boy to take out the earth and level it. Hou Rong walked on the ground again, trembling and startled, just like the earth suddenly bulges, but when looking down, the ground is calm, then it is flat. Already recovered. It will take a long time to settle down. Alas! There are so many people in the habit! If the foot is walking on flat ground, it will not fit into the depression. If the depression is flat for a long time, it will be suffocating and restless. Therefore, a gentleman's learning is more important than starting with caution.

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[1] Yanghuitang: the name of Liu Rong’s residence in Xiangxiang, Hunan.

[2] Dip (qīn invade) pornography: gradually expand.

[3]中(zhòng人): hit, penetrate deeply into people.

Liu Rong (1816--1873), a writer of the Qing Dynasty. "Rong" means "Rong". The courtesy name is Meng Rong and the nickname is Xia Xian. A native of Xiangxiang, Hunan. All births. He once held regiment training in the countryside and fought with the Taiping Army in Jiangxi from Zeng Guofan. In the first year of Tongzhi (1862), he was appointed as the chief envoy of Sichuan. In the same year, Shi Da led his army to Sichuan and was ordered to go to the front to supervise the war against the enemy. Shi was defeated and surrendered to the Qing camp. He sent him to Chengdu and tortured him to death. The following year, he was promoted to governor of Shaanxi and supervised all military affairs in Shaanxi. Later, he was defeated by the Western Nian Army under Zhang Zongyu and was dismissed from his post and returned home. He is the author of "Yanghuitang Poetry Collection", "Si Geng Lu Doubts", etc.

Liu Rong, a writer of the Qing Dynasty, studied in a room on the west side of Yanghui Hall when he was young. He concentrated on something, raised his head and thought when he didn't understand something, and walked around the room when he couldn't think of an answer.

There is a pothole in this house, and Liu Rong always trips over it every time she passes by. At first, he felt very awkward, but over time he got used to it, and walking there felt as safe as walking on flat ground.

Liu Rong's father noticed the potholes in the floor of the house and said to Liu Rong with a smile: "You can't even manage a house, how can you still manage a country?" Then he asked the servant boy to fill the potholes. flat.

After his father left, Liu Rong was reading and thinking about the problem and then pacing around the house. When he walked to the original pothole, he felt a sudden bulge on the ground. He was shocked. When he looked down, he found that the ground was flat. For a whole day, he walked awkwardly for many days before he gradually got used to it.

Liu Rong couldn't help but sigh: "What a great center of learning!... Therefore, a gentleman's learning is more important than starting with caution."

(It means: when a person studies , Habits in the initial stage are very important. For a gentleman to study, it is important to treat the habit formation in the initial stage carefully.

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