original text

Ouyang Xiu was four years old and lonely. His family is poor and has no money. His mother painted the land and taught him calligraphy. Recite more ancient Chinese chapters and make learning a poem. And it's a little longer, and there are no books to read at home, so I borrowed them from scholars or copied them. Copying may not be necessary, but I can recite this book. Even forget to eat and sleep, but reading is a service. Poetry and prose written since childhood, to adulthood.

To annotate ...

1, orphan: lost his father at a young age.

2. Thistle: A perennial herb similar to reed.

3. In Lu (lǘ):) village.

4. Scholars: Scholars.

5 or: Sometimes.

6. Wei: Same as Wei, only.

7. Service: dedication.

translate

Ouyang Xiu lost his father at the age of four, and his family was poor and his property was not much. Ouyang Xiu's mother wrote on the sand with a reed pole and taught him to write. Ouyang Xiu's mother also read him a lot of ancient prose and asked him to learn to write poetry.

When Ouyang Xiu was old and had no books to read at home, he went to the scholar's house in the village to borrow books, and sometimes he took the opportunity to copy them down. I can recite the articles in the book before I finish copying it. Ouyang Xiu stayed up all night, forgot all about eating and sleeping, and just buried himself in reading. His poems and articles written since childhood are as literary as those written by adults.

The meaning of the article and the introduction of the characters

The meaning of the article

Ouyang Xiu's hard work is one of the allusions of China's diligent and inspirational in ancient times. It tells the story of Ouyang Xiu, an essayist and lyricist in the Northern Song Dynasty, who grew up in an environment of "four-year-old loneliness, poor family and no assets" and "sleepless nights, reading is the right thing".

It can be seen that adversity is a fortune in life, and the spirit of "only reading is a service" is also worth learning. Therefore, we should study hard and serve the motherland, so we should warn future generations to strengthen their study.

character introduction

Ouyang Xiu (1007- 1072) was born in Mianzhou (now Mianyang City, Sichuan Province), a politician and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Song Renzong Tiansheng eight years (1030), Ouyang Xiu was a scholar, experienced Renzong, Yingzong and Zongshen dynasties, and was a bachelor of Hanlin, a Tang dynasty, and participated in the discussion of state affairs. After his death, he gave it to a duke named Chu. posthumous title was called "Wenzhong", so he was called Ouyang Wenzhong.