◎Lu Xun chewed chili peppers to ward off the cold
Mr. Lu Xun studied hard since he was a child. When he was a boy, he studied at the Jiangnan Naval Academy. He had excellent grades in the first semester and was awarded a gold medal by the school. He immediately took them to the streets of Nanjing's Drum Tower to sell them, then bought a few books and a bunch of red peppers. Whenever it was cold at night and he couldn't bear to read at night, he would pick a chili pepper, put it in his mouth and chew it, which made him sweat on his forehead. He used this method to keep away the cold and insist on studying. As a result of studying hard, he finally became a famous litterateur in our country.
◎Wang Yanan studied hard and became a talent
Wang Yanan slept on a three-legged bed. When Wang Yanan was a child, he had great ambitions and loved reading. When he was in middle school, in order to gain more time to study, he cut off one leg of the wooden bed he slept on by half a foot to make it a three-legged bed. He read late at night every day. When he was tired, he went to bed and took a nap. Then he turned over in a daze and the bed tilted towards the short leg. He was suddenly awakened and immediately got out of bed and sat down at his desk to read at night. This happens every day, without interruption. As a result, he achieved excellent results every year and was known as one of the three heroes in his class. Because he studied diligently when he was young, he finally became an outstanding economist in our country.
◎Su Dongpo, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, thought he had no books left to read when he was young, so he wrote a couplet: "Know all the characters in the world; read all the books in the world." Later, he was given the guidance of an old man. , then changed it to: "Strive to know all the words in the world; determined to read all the books in the world."
◎Guo Moruo once wrote a reading couplet: "Reading is not done at three o'clock or five drums, and the merit is only exposed to ten people. "Cold." This means that studying requires hard work on a regular basis and cannot be done on a whim by working overtime to achieve excellence. If you want to succeed, you must persevere and persevere. You must not be diligent sometimes and slack off sometimes, fishing for three days and drying the net for two days.
◎Hua Luogeng summarizes the reading process into two stages: "from thick to thin" and "from thin to thick". When you truly have a thorough understanding of the content of the book, grasp the main points of the book, and master the spiritual essence of the book, reading will change from thick to thin. The more thoroughly you understand, the thinner it will feel. If during the reading process, you conduct an in-depth discussion of each chapter, add annotations and supplement reference materials on each page, then the book will become thicker and thicker as you read it. Therefore, reading is a two-way process from thick to thin, and from thin to thick
Hou Baolin copying books
Hou Baolin, the master of cross talk language, only went to elementary school for three years. Eager to learn, his artistic level reached a level of proficiency and he became a famous language expert. Once, in order to buy a Ming Dynasty joke book "Jian Lang" that he wanted to buy, he visited all the used bookstalls in Beijing but failed. Later, he learned that the Beijing Library had this book and decided to copy it back. It was winter, and he braved strong winds and heavy snow, and ran to the library for eighteen days to copy books. Finally, he copied a book with more than 100,000 words.
Zhang Guanghou eats books
The mathematician Zhang Guanghou once saw a paper on loss and felt that it was useful for his research work, so he read it over and over again. This paper lasted more than 20 pages, and he read it over and over again for more than half a year. Because of frequent flipping, an obvious black mark was left on the white pages. His wife joked to him that this is not studying, it is just eating books.