Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading

Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading [tīng jūn?yī xí?huà?shèng dú shí nián shū]

Explanation: Listening to this sentence is more useful than ten years of reading. ?Consists of two parts. One: Jun (here is a pronoun, not specifically an emperor) said a sentence; two: People who heard this sentence felt that listening to this sentence was more useful than ten years of reading. Win: exceed. It is more than what I gained from studying hard for ten years. Describes great ideological benefits. ?

Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading allusions

A long time ago, there was a poor scholar who came to Beijing to take the exam. He was just on his way and missed Sutou. Seeing that it was getting late, he was very anxious. Just then, a butcher came over and invited him to his home. The butcher and the scholar had a very good conversation. So the butcher casually asked the scholar, "Sir, everything is male and female. So, which water in the sea is female and which is male? Which tree on the mountain is male and which is female?" The scholar was stunned by the question and had to answer. Ask the butcher for advice.

The butcher said: "There are waves in the sea, and the waves are female and the waves are male, because the male is always stronger." After hearing this, the scholar nodded repeatedly and asked: "What about the male tree and the female tree? The butcher said: "The male tree is a pine tree. Doesn't the word 'pine' have a male character? The plum tree is a female tree, because there is a 'female' character in the word 'plum'." The scholar suddenly understood.

After the scholar arrived in the capital, he entered the examination room and opened the paper. What a coincidence. The questions asked by the emperor were exactly what the butcher told him about female water, male water, male trees and female trees; many The scholar looked at the question with his eyes in a daze. Only this scholar could solve it without thinking. Soon, the scholar was selected as the number one scholar. He specially returned to the butcher's house and offered generous gifts. He also wrote a plaque in his own handwriting and gave it to the butcher. The inscription on it was "Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading."

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Idioms describing sudden enlightenment after hearing insights: benefited a lot, enlightened, enlightened, enlightened. ?

1. Benefit a lot [shòu yì fěi qiǎn]?

Interpretation: Refers to a big gain, which generally refers to ideological aspects. ?

Source: Chapter 25, Volume 5, of Lu Yao's "The Ordinary World": "This type of 'lecture' also sells tickets and the lecturer's own books, making this type of activity accessible to all parties." Everyone has benefited a lot."

2. Máo sè dùn kāi [máo sè dùn kāi]

Interpretation: The ancients believed that if the road is not walked, it will be blocked by grass, and the mind will be blocked if it is not used. A sudden enlightenment means that the blocked heart is suddenly opened. It describes being inspired and understanding the truth all of a sudden. ?

Source: Pre-Qin Dynasty Meng Ke's "Mencius: End of the Heart": "The paths on the mountain paths are used to make roads; if they are not used for leisure, they will become blocked. Today's Maocai Zi's "My heart is broken!"

Vernacular translation: Pre-Qin Dynasty Meng Ke's "Mencius: End of the Heart": "The paths on the hillside are often walked by people and become a road; after a while, no one walks on it. It will be clogged with thatch again. Now the thatch has also clogged your heart.

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