1. Cutting through walls to steal light
In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a great scholar named Kuang Heng. He liked reading very much when he was a child, but his family was very poor and couldn't afford candles, so he couldn't read at night. He often worried about this. That night, Kuang Heng accidentally discovered that there seemed to be some light on the wall of his home. When he got up and looked, it turned out that the wall was cracked, and the neighbor's candlelight shone through the crack. After watching it, Kuang Heng immediately came up with a way. He found a chisel and made a small hole in the crack in the wall. Immediately, a candlelight came over, and Kuang Heng read the book seriously according to this candlelight. Every night from now on, Kuang Heng would lean against the wall and read by the neighbor's candlelight. Because he was diligent and studious since childhood, Kuang Heng later became a knowledgeable Confucian scholar.
2. Chen Ping studied
Chen Ping endured humiliation and studied hard. Chen Ping, a famous prime minister in the Western Han Dynasty, was poor when he was young and lived with his elder brother. In order to uphold his father's destiny and shine in the family, he did not engage in production and studied behind closed doors. However, he was not tolerated by his elder sister-in-law. In order to eliminate the conflict between brother and sister-in-law, he faced repeated humiliation and could not bear it. However, as the sister-in-law's behavior worsened, she finally couldn't bear it anymore and ran away from home, wanting to wander around the world. After being chased back by her brother, she disregarded the past grudges and prevented her brother from divorcing her, which became a good talk among the locals. Finally, there was an old man who came here because of his reputation and accepted apprenticeships for free. After completing his studies, he assisted Liu Bang and achieved great success.
3. Tang Bohu devoted himself to studying painting
Tang Bohu was a famous painter and writer in the Ming Dynasty. When he was a child, he showed superhuman talent in painting. Tang Bohu became a disciple of the great painter Shen Zhou. Naturally, he studied harder and more diligently. He mastered painting skills quickly and was highly praised by Shen Zhou. Unexpectedly, due to Shen Zhou's praise, Tang Bohu, who had always been modest, gradually became complacent. Shen Zhou saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart. During a meal, Shen Zhou asked Tang Bohu to open the window. Tang Bohu found that the window under his hand was actually Tang Bohu was very ashamed of a painting by his teacher Shen Zhou, and devoted himself to learning painting from then on.