Hua Luogeng came from a poor family and was determined to study hard. When he was in middle school, in a mathematics class, the teacher asked the students a famous difficult problem. Hua Luogeng answered it correctly, which surprised the teacher and was praised by the teacher. From then on, he fell in love with mathematics. After Hua Luogeng finished the first grade of junior high school, he dropped out of school because of his poor family. He had to stand at the counter for his parents, but he still insisted on studying mathematics by himself. After his unremitting efforts, he finally became an outstanding mathematician in our country.

3. Ren Bonian, a famous painter in the late Qing Dynasty, was born in Shanghai. He became a great painter entirely because of his hard work and hard work. Ren Bonian's father was also a painter. Under his father's influence, he liked to watch his father paint when he started studying at the age of two or three. When he was twelve years old, his father unfortunately passed away and his family became poor. As a result, Ren Bonian dropped out of school and became an apprentice in a fan shop. He was very tired after a day's work, but no matter how tired he was, he still insisted on drawing a few strokes every day; he had no money to buy paper, so he used waste paper to draw. When the shop owner found out, he saw that his paintings were indeed extraordinary and asked him to paint the fans specifically. From then on, Ren Bonian learned something useful and became more enthusiastic about painting. Finally he became a famous painter.

1. Nang Ying’s Night Reading

Che Yin was born in the Jin Dynasty. He was originally a son of a wealthy family. Later, his family fell into decline and he became impoverished. However, he can persevere in the face of adversity.

Che Yin was very sensible when he was young and could endure hardships and stand hard work. Because he had to help his family with work during the day, he wanted to use the long nights to read more and enrich himself; however, his family was poor and he had no spare money to buy oil to light a lamp. Is there any way to break through the limitations of objective conditions? At first, he had to recite the contents of the book at night, until one summer night, he saw a few fireflies flying, and little fluorescent lights flashing in the dark night. So he came up with a good idea: he caught many fireflies and put them in a small bag sewn with white linen. Because the white linen was very thin, the light of the fireflies could shine through. He hung the bag When he got up, he became a "lighting lamp." Che Yin continued to study hard and finally became a famous scholar and later a popular official.

2. Yingxue Reading

In the Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Sun Kang. He was intelligent by nature and had a photographic memory of what he read. . Although his family background was not good, he was always good-looking, but he could not hide the brilliance and enthusiasm in his eyes. However, as he grew older and became more addicted to reading, his family situation deteriorated. His family said they could no longer afford him to read endlessly and consume lamp oil, which meant that he could no longer study at night. Sun Kang was not a nerd, and he didn't think there were Qian Zhong millet or Yan Ruyu in the book, but reading was really a task. It was such a happy thing, it brought him a completely different world, made him experience the joy of thinking, made his mood clear and lofty, and completely transcended the embarrassing situation at hand. However, the days without books at the moment made him feel sad. He felt that every night was unbearable. It was a cold winter night. He left his dilapidated and deserted home and came to the moonlit snowy field. He was thinking hard, unable to do anything, feeling miserable and not knowing what to do. When he was hesitating again, a thought hit him. It turned out that under the bright moonlight, the snowfield reflected the boundless silver light, shaping a clear and brilliant world. The surrounding scenery was very clear, as if it was God's compassion. Touched by his sincerity in studying hard, he deliberately turned this world into a good place for him to study. He was extremely happy, ran home, took out the book, and looked at it against the snowy light. It was indeed obvious that he was in a strange place. I was overjoyed: “I can study again, I can study again! ”

From then on, every moonlit night, Sun Kang would hold a book in the snow and use the reflection of the snow to read. Later, he became a famous scholar. . His story of "Reading in the Snow" has also been passed down as a legend and became a model of diligence and studious.

3. Cutting through walls to steal light

In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a farmer's child. , called Kuang Heng.

He wanted to study very much when he was a child, but because his family was poor, he had no money to go to school. Later, he learned to read from a relative and gained the ability to read.

Kuang Heng could not afford to buy books, so he had to borrow books to read. At that time, books were very valuable, and people who owned them would not lend them to others easily. Kuang Heng worked part-time for wealthy people during the busy farming season. He didn't pay any wages and only asked people to lend him books to read.

After a few years, Kuang Heng grew up and became the main labor force in the family. He worked in the fields all day long, and only had time to read a little while taking a break at noon, so it often took ten and a half days to finish a book. Kuang Heng was very anxious and thought to himself: I plant crops during the day and don’t have time to read. I can use more time at night to read. But Kuang Heng’s family was very poor and couldn’t buy oil for lighting lamps. What should he do?

One night, Kuang Heng was lying on the bed and reciting the books he had read during the day. Carrying it on my back, I suddenly saw a ray of light coming from the east wall. He stood up in a hurry, walked to the wall and took a look, ah! It turned out that what came through the cracks in the wall was the neighbor's light. So Kuang Heng thought of a way: he took a knife and dug a larger gap in the wall. In this way, the light that came through was also greater, so he leaned against the light that came through and read a book.

Kuang Heng studied hard in this way and later became a very knowledgeable person.

Quotes:

1. Heaven is in good health, and a gentleman strives to constantly strive for self-improvement. ——"Book of Changes·Qian·Xiang"

2. He who conquers others is powerful, and he who conquers himself is strong. ——"Laozi" Chapter 33

3. Don't blame God, don't blame others. ——"The Analects·Xianwen"

4. When Heaven is about to entrust this person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions. ——"Mencius·Gao Zixia"

5. Born in sorrow and died in happiness. ——"Mencius·Gao Zixia"

6. The road is long and far away, I will search up and down. ——Qu Yuan's "Li Sao"

7. If you strengthen yourself through self-cultivation, your name will be worthy of Yao and Yu. ——"Xunzi · Self-cultivation"

8. Do not do evil because it is small, and do not do good because it is small. ——Liu Bei's words in "Three Kingdoms"