Because his family was very poor, he had to do a lot of work during the day to earn money. Only at night could he sit down and study. However, he couldn't afford candles, so he couldn't read when it was dark. Kuang Heng was heartbroken at this wasted time, and his heart was very painful.

His neighbor's home. Neighbors have always looked down on people who are poorer than their family, so they said viciously and sarcastically, "Since you are too poor to buy candles, what books are you reading?" Kuang Heng was very angry after hearing this, but he made up his mind to read the books well.

Kuang Heng came home and quietly chiseled a small hole in the wall, through which the candlelight of his neighbor came. With this faint light, he eagerly read the books and gradually read all the books at home.

After reading these books, Kuang Heng felt that his knowledge was far from enough. His desire to continue reading more books is even more urgent.

There is a big family nearby with a lot of books. One day, Kuang Heng rolled up his bedding and appeared in front of the big family. He said to his master, "Please take me in, I will work for your family for free. Just let me read all your books." The master was moved by his spirit and agreed to his request to borrow books.

Kuang Heng studied hard like this. He became a famous scholar in the Western Han Dynasty.

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This fable describes two things that Kuang Heng did when he was a teenager, one was stealing light from the wall, and the other was studying hard by borrowing books. He praised Kuang Heng's spirit of courageously overcoming difficult conditions and studying diligently. Set a good example for us to study hard.

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Ba Jin's reading method

The famous writer Ba Jin's reading method is very strange, because he did it without books. Reading without books is really a wonder in the world. Ba Jin said: "I was hospitalized for the second time. After taking a nap for less than an hour every day, I got out of bed and sat on the small sofa, waiting for the nurse to take my temperature at two o'clock. I sat motionless, but I didn't doze off. My brain refused to rest. It was recalling some books and works I had read in the past, as if it wanted to take a rest before my memory completely declined. Keep something beautiful. "

It turns out that his reading method is to sit there and recall the books he has read. This has many advantages:

(1) It is not restricted by conditions and can make full use of time. Ba Jin cited two examples: one is that during the Soviet Patriotic War, when Leningrad was surrounded by German troops for a long time, a girl wrote something like" anna karenine "in her diary. There are no candles, and the whole city is blacked out. She can't read, but she sits quietly in the dark and remembers the plot in the book. Tolstoy's novels helped her spend those horrible nights. Another example is his own personal experience in ten years of civil strife. He said: "If the rebels allowed me to keep a diary during the Cultural Revolution and allowed me to keep a diary according to my own wishes, my diary would be full of titles. People would be surprised: my study was sealed. They forget that there is a big warehouse in a person's mind, which stores things that others can't take away. "These two examples show that you can" read "under all circumstances that you don't have normal reading conditions.

(2) Review the past and learn new things. By recalling, you can take out the books you have read in the past and chew them bit by bit, just like a cow ruminating, which can be further digested and absorbed. Every time you recall, you will have a new understanding and a new one. New gains.

(3) I can constantly draw spiritual strength from the books I have read. Ba Jin said, "I am fighting against diseases now, and I am encouraged by all kinds of works ... Even if I have no spirit to read new works during my illness, the accumulation of spiritual wealth in the past is enough for my limited rest. Until I die, people need light and heat."