Iron pestle grinding needle:

Li Bai, the famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, did not like studying when he was a child. He often skipped school and wandered on the streets.

One day, Li Bai did not go to class again. He wandered around the street and walked around outside the city unknowingly. The warm sunshine, cheerful birds, and flowers and plants swaying in the wind made Li Bai sigh, "With such good weather, how boring would it be to read in the house all day?"

He walked to the door of a shabby thatched hut. I saw an old woman with white hair at the door, grinding an iron pestle as thick as a stick. Li Bai walked over and said, "Old woman, what are you doing?"

"I want to grind it into an embroidery needle." The old woman raised her head, smiled at Li Bai, then lowered her head and continued to grind it.

"Embroidery needle?" Li Bai asked again: "Is it an embroidery needle used for sewing clothes?"

"Of course!"

"But, Tie Chu When can such a thick needle be ground into a thin embroidery needle?"

The old woman asked: "A drop of water can penetrate a stone, and a foolish old man can move mountains. Why can't an iron pestle be ground into an embroidery needle?" /p>

"But, are you so old?"

"As long as I work harder than others, there is nothing I can't do."

Old woman What he said made Li Bai very ashamed, so after he returned, he never skipped school again. I also studied very hard every day, and finally became a poet who will be famous throughout the ages.

Extended information:

1. Tiě chǔ mó zhēn (tiě chǔ mó zhēn) is an idiom, which means that as long as you are determined and work hard, you can succeed in anything no matter how difficult it is. It is a word of praise and can be used as a predicate, object, attributive, and adverbial. From "Fangyu Shenglan" by Zhu Mu of the Southern Song Dynasty: "When I was crossing a stream, I met an old woman grinding an iron pestle. When I asked her, she said, 'I want to make a needle.'"

2. Allusion: This article comes from "Fangyu Shenglan" "Yu Sheng Lan" tells the story of the great poet Li Bai, who had trouble studying when he was a child. On his way out of school, he encountered an old woman grinding needles with an iron pestle. This deeply touched him, so he finally studied hard and became successful in his studies. "As long as you work hard enough, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle" comes from this story. This sentence has also become a famous aphorism that encourages future generations to persevere in learning.

3. Original text of the idiom:

Mozhen Creek is at the foot of Elephant Er Mountain in Meizhou. Legend has it that Li Taibai was studying in the mountains, but he abandoned it before completing it. After crossing a stream, I met an old woman who was grinding an iron pestle and asked her, "I want to make a needle." Taibai understood what he meant and graduated. I said my surname was Wu. There is Wushi Rock next to Jinxi River.

4. Character introduction:

Li Bai (February 28, 701-762), courtesy name Taibai, Han nationality, Qinglian Township, Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province. He is also known as Qinglian Jushi, also known as "Exiled Immortal". A poet of the Tang Dynasty in China, he is known as the "Immortal of Poetry".

There is "The Collection of Li Taibai" handed down from generation to generation. Most of the poems were written when he was drunk. His representative works include "Looking at Lushan Waterfall", "The Road is Difficult", "The Road to Shu is Difficult", "About Wine", " Liang Fuyin", "Early Departure from Baidi City" and many other poems. Later, there was Li Bai, the prototype of "Li Xia" in the movie "The Eternal Wave"; Li Bihua, the author of many novels such as "Rouge Button", was originally named Li Bai.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Iron pestle grinding needle