Sun Kang 1

Sun Kang loved studying when he was a child, and often felt that time was not enough. He wants to study day and night, but his family is poor and has no money to buy lamp oil. You can't study when it's dark. Especially in winter, when the nights are long, he sometimes toss and turn for a long time, making it difficult to sleep.

There's really no choice but to read more books during the day and sleep in bed at night. He felt it a pity to let time pass in vain. One night, when Sun Kang woke up from his sleep and turned his head to the window, he found several white lights coming in through the window.

I saw a heavy snow when I opened the door. The roof is white, the ground is white, and the trees are white. The whole earth was covered with a layer of silver, shining and dazzling. He stood in the yard and enjoyed the beautiful scenery wrapped in snow.

Suddenly my heart moved: Can I study under the snow? He hurried back to the house, took out his book and looked at the reflection of snow. Sure enough, the handwriting is clear, much brighter than the dim little oil lamp!

So he didn't feel sleepy, so he put on his clothes, took out his book and read in the snow. Sun Kang read tirelessly despite the cold, and his hands and feet were frozen stiff, so he got up and ran, rubbing his fingers at the same time.

From then on, Sun Kang no longer worried about the lack of lamp oil. Throughout the winter, he studied day and night, neither afraid of the cold nor tired, and often read the cock crow.

Even though the north wind roared and the dripping water turned into ice, he never stopped studying. Sun Kang made great efforts to make progress in his studies, and finally became a prestigious scholar (ancient scholar).

2. Kuang Heng

Kuang Heng studies hard and works hard. In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a farmer's child named Kuang Heng. He wanted to study very much when he was a child, but because his family was poor, he couldn't afford to go to school. Later, he learned to read from a relative before he could read.

Kuang Heng can't afford books, so he has to borrow books to read. At that time, books were so valuable that people who had books refused to lend them to others easily. During the busy farming season, Kuang Heng worked as a short-term worker for wealthy families and asked them to lend him books for free.

A few years later, Kuang Heng grew up and became the main labor force in the family. He works in the fields all day, and only has time to read some books during his lunch break, so it often takes ten days and a half months to finish reading a book.

Kuang Heng was in a hurry, thinking: planting crops during the day, no time to read, you can spend more time reading at night. But Kuang Heng's family is too poor to buy oil for lighting. What should we do?

One night, Kuang Heng was lying in bed reciting the books he had read during the day. Behind me, I suddenly saw a light coming through the east wall. He stood up and went to the wall to have a look. Ah! It turned out that the neighbor's light came through the cracks in the wall.

Kuang Heng studied hard and thrived in this way, and later became a very learned man. This story is also called "Digging a wall to steal light" and "Digging a wall to borrow light".

3. Sun Jing

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a man named Sun Jing, a famous politician. When he was young, he was studious and often forgot to eat or sleep. In ancient times, a man's hair was very long, so he thought of a special way: find a rope and tie one end firmly to the beam.

When he is tired of reading, he dozes off. When his head is lowered, the rope will hold his hair and hurt his scalp, and he will wake up immediately and then continue to study. Since then, he has studied hard in this way every night.

After studying hard year after year, Sun Jing was well-read and knowledgeable, and eventually became a great scholar who was familiar with ancient and modern times. At that time, he was quite famous in the north of Jianghuai, and students often traveled thousands of miles to learn and discuss knowledge with him.