If you are diligent in the day, you dare not relax. —— Shangshu is sensitive and eager to learn, and is not ashamed to ask questions. It is also a saying. —— Confucius will suffer from it first; If the sky is going to be destroyed, it must be tired first. —— China's 1 ancient reading sayings, it's just when a man is reading. He doesn't know how to study hard early with black hair, but he regrets how to study late with white head. Confucius, an ancient great thinker and educator, can achieve such achievements because of his diligence. "Historical Records of Confucius' Family" said: "Confucius was late and liked the Book of Changes ... After reading the Book of Changes, Wei compiled three unique works." The Book of Changes is an extremely important textbook used by Confucius to teach students for a long time, and it is one of the Five Classics of Confucianism. It should be said that he is already very familiar with it, but he still likes reading very much in his later years. As a result of repeated reading, the leather rope of the bamboo slips of Yi was broken several times, which shows its hard work. According to Wang Chong, an outstanding materialist philosopher in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "On Heng Bietong" records: "Confucius was ill, and Shang Qu was ill in Japan. Confucius said,' What's better than getting a book to Japan?' "This means that Confucius was seriously ill, and his disciple Shang Qu divined that Confucius would die at noon. When he was about to die, Confucius said, "Take books to read, and what will you do if you don't study before you die at noon?" Therefore, Wang Chong said with great emotion: "Saints are eager to learn, and they never stop dying. They study in the scriptures, and they don't abandon morality with dying enemies. They are the saints of the eternal life, and their cover is not empty!" He thinks that the studious spirit of a saint like Confucius is really admirable, because he never forgot to study before he died, and. These facts show that Confucius has long set a shining example for us to learn for life. Su Qin, a famous strategist in the Warring States Period, tried to say that the King of Qin carried out the Lian Heng policy when he was young, but his ten letters were not adopted. At this time, his clothes were worn out, his travelling expenses were used up, his description was haggard and his face was dark. He had to wrap his feet, wear sandals, carry books and carry luggage, and leave Qin with shame. At home, his wife didn't get off the loom to meet him, his sister-in-law didn't cook for him, and his parents didn't answer him. But instead of being discouraged and blaming his family, he blamed the king of Qin for not accepting his strategy. So in the evening, I opened a large number of dozens of books, from which I found Jiang Taigong's "Yin Fu Jing", the art of war, which helped King Wu of Zhou win the battle. I immediately read it at my desk, and chose some useful parts to be familiar with and ponder over again. When I was tired and sleepy at night, I stabbed my thigh with an awl to lift my spirits, causing blood to flow along my thigh to my heel. After a year of hard study and careful study, I finally mastered the essence of the book and established the strategy of making Qin. Then he traveled around the world again to persuade Zhao, Wei, Qi and other six countries to unite against Qin. At the same time, he also admired the seal of the six countries and became the length of the Covenant. According to Hanshu, "Sun Jingzi is a literary treasure, eager to learn, and never stops in the morning and evening. When you are tired of sleeping, tie your head with a rope and hang the roof beam. Later, he was a great Confucian. " Su Qin's anger is biting, and Sun Jingzhi's head is hanging on the beam. These two stories have been passed down as stories by later generations, and the idiom' hanging on the beam and stabbing the stocks' has become synonymous with hard work. The idiom "digging a wall to borrow light" also comes from an admirable diligent story in ancient times. "Miscellanies of Xijing" said: "Kuang Heng's word is childish, and he studies hard without candles. The neighbor has a candle and can't catch it. Heng is trying to draw its light through the wall and read it with a book reflecting the light. " It is said that Kuang Heng, a scholar of Confucian classics in the Western Han Dynasty, was diligent and studious when he was a teenager, but because his family was poor and had no money to buy candles, he cut a hole in his own wall to borrow light and study hard. The book also describes: "The people of the city are illiterate, and the family is rich and has many books, so the balance is to work with them instead of claiming compensation. The master was surprised, asked Heng, and Heng said,' May the master read all the books.' The host sighed, gave books, and became a university. "When he was young, Kuang Heng volunteered to be a servant in a rich family with many books, but he didn't get paid. The host was surprised and asked him why. He said, "as long as you can read all your books." Moved by his studious spirit, the host sponsored him to study. Later, Kuang Heng finally became a great scholar and served as prime minister in the Han and Yuan emperors. The idiom "a firefly reflects snow" comes from two other stories that the ancients studied hard. "Book of Jin" said: "Yin Gong is tireless and knowledgeable. Poor people don't often get oil, while Xia Yue practices to fill dozens of fluorescent fires to take pictures of books, day and night. It is long, beautiful, quick-witted, and has a reputation for rural songs. " Later, he was "famous for his erudition in cold elements". It is precisely because Che Yin's family was poor when he was young that he couldn't often buy oil to light a lamp, but he could often catch dozens of fireflies and put them in fine net bags in summer nights as the lighting for reading. Therefore, when he grew up, he was not only famous for his "quick wit", but also famous for his poor background and erudition at that time. According to "Shang You Lu", "Sun Kang, a native of Jin Jingzhao, is sensitive and eager to learn, and his family is poor and oil-free. He studies in the snow in winter." Although both Jin people were poor and had no oil to light a lamp, one of them was Xia Yue, and the other was snow in winter, and they studied hard, so they all became famous scholars at that time. In the early Ming Dynasty, Song Lian, a famous scholar, historian and writer who lectured for the Prince and presided over the compilation of The History of Yuan Dynasty, was poor in his childhood and had no money to buy books, so he relied entirely on borrowing and copying books to learn. In order to "read all the books", even if it is cold for nine days and the inkstone freezes, the fingers can't bend and stretch, and they will never slack off. Count the good days and return them immediately and quickly after copying. Later, on a snowy day, he went to a school far away in a deep mountain valley. His hands and feet were frozen and cracked, and he was even too stiff to move. When I was studying at school, I not only ate a simple meal, but also ate only two meals a day. Although he is wearing an old cotton robe and rags, he doesn't envy those roommates who cover themselves with splendid quilts, wear luxurious hats, wear swords on the left and hang sachets on the right, and are pampered. He doesn't feel inferior because he is inferior to others in food and clothing, but takes reading as his greatest pleasure. Because he was diligent and eager to learn, the teacher was willing to teach him carefully and finally became a great scholar. Wang Mian, a contemporary of Song Lian, was born in a farmer's family. When he was seven or eight years old, he used the opportunity of herding cattle to often secretly go to the school to attend lectures, and later went to the temple at night, "sitting on the Buddha's lap, holding the policy to reflect the ever-burning lamp and reading it, Langlang Da Dan".