1, Zhang Haidi was paraplegic due to spinal hemangioma at the age of five. Because of this, she has never been to school. From an early age, she began to teach herself knowledge with tenacious perseverance. She taught herself specialized courses in primary schools, middle schools and universities. When Zhang Haidi was fifteen years old, she was sent to a poor village in Shen County, Liaocheng with her parents. But she is not afraid of hard life, but dedicated her youth with optimism. There, she taught the children in the village primary school, overcame all kinds of difficulties to learn medical knowledge, and enthusiastically treated the villagers with acupuncture. During her stay in Shenxian County, she treated more than 10,000 people for free and was warmly praised by people.

In the United States, students in preparatory classes abroad witnessed the great achievements of science and technology in North America and Western Europe and marveled at the rapid development of machinery, trains, ships and telecommunications manufacturing. Some students are pessimistic about the future of China, but Zhan Tianyou firmly said, "In the future, there will be trains and ships in China." With the belief of studying hard for the prosperity of the motherland, he studied hard and graduated from New Haven with 1867. In May of the same year, he was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Yale University, majoring in railway engineering. After four years in college, Zhan Tianyou studied hard, ranking first in the graduation examination with excellent results. 188 1 year, of the 120 overseas students who returned from China, only two got their degrees, and Zhan Tianyou was one of them. After returning to China, Zhan Tianyou enthusiastically prepared to contribute his knowledge to the railway industry of the motherland.

Lin Zexu: A patriotic politician who advocated banning opium and resisting aggression during the Opium War. Historians call him "the first person who opened his eyes to see the world" in modern China. Chinese characters and strokes are also less words, the elderly in the village at night. Fujian Houguan (now Fuzhou, Fujian) was born. Nine years of Jiaqing (1804). Sixteen years of Jinshi. Together with Gong Zizhen, Wei Yuan, Huang Jue and others, he advocated the study of practical application. Since 25 years ago, he has served as the ambassador of Hangzhou-Jiahu Road, Zhejiang, the ambassador of salt transportation, the provincial judge of Jiangsu, and the minister of Jiangning. He was ordered to rectify salt affairs, set up river engineering, plan shipping, and take measures such as persuading the people to be peaceful, prohibiting hoarding, and helping the poor and the people. Later, he was promoted to the governor of Hedong, personally inspected the Shandong Canal and the project along the Yellow River in Henan, and put forward a plan to change the Lijin Yellow River in Shandong into the sea to control floods. Twelve years awarded to the governor of Jiangsu. Drought and flood disasters are serious in Jiangsu province. He took advantage of the people's hardships and insisted on postponing the expropriation of Cao Fu in the affected counties. Committed to the construction of water conservancy projects. In order to overcome the shortage of silver and facilitate the currency circulation, he opposed the total ban on foreign currencies and put forward his own idea of casting silver coins, which was the pioneer of China's modern currency reform.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a man named Sun Jing, a famous politician. When he was young, he was eager to learn. He often closed the door and kept reading alone. Reading from morning till night every day, often forgetting to eat and sleep. After studying for a long time, I am tired, but I still don't rest. After a long time, I was too tired to doze off. Afraid of affecting his study, he came up with a special method. In ancient times, men had long hair. He found a rope and tied it 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, wake up immediately and continue to study. This is the story of Sun Jing's hanging beam.

During the Warring States Period, there was a man named Su Qin, who was also a famous politician. When I was young, because of the lack of knowledge, I went to many places to do things and was not taken seriously. After returning home, his family was also very cold and looked down on him. This is a great stimulus to him. So, he made up his mind to study hard. He often studies late into the night, is very tired, often takes a nap and wants to sleep. He also figured out a way to prepare an awl. Once he dozed off, he stabbed himself in the thigh with the awl. In this way, I suddenly felt pain, woke up by myself, and then insisted on reading. This made the story of Su Qin's "thorn".

6. When the Western Han Dynasty stole the light, there was a great scholar named Kuang Heng. He loved reading when he was a child, but his family was too poor to buy candles, so he couldn't read at night. He often worries about it. That night, Kuang Heng was surprised to find that there seemed to be some lights on his own wall. When he got up, he saw the wall cracked and the neighbor's candle was sticking out of the crack. Kuang Heng saw this and immediately came up with a solution. He found a chisel and made a small hole in the crack in the wall. Immediately, a candlelight rose, and Kuang Heng read the book carefully under this candlelight. From then on, every night, Kuang Heng would lean against the wall and read by the neighbor's candlelight. He has been studious since he was a child. Later, Kuang Heng became a learned Confucian scholar.