In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a farmer's child named 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. This is the story of cutting through walls and stealing light.

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

Mr. Lu Xun studied seriously since he was a child. When he was a boy, he studied at the Jiangnan Naval Academy. He had excellent grades in the first semester, and the school awarded him a gold medal. He immediately took it to the streets of Nanjing's Drum Tower and sold it, then bought a few books and a bunch of red peppers. Whenever it was cold at night and he couldn't bear to read at night, he would pick a chili pepper, put it in his mouth and chew it, which made him sweat on his forehead. He used this method to keep away the cold and insist on studying. As a result of studying hard, he finally became a famous litterateur in our country.

When Wang Yanan was a child, he was ambitious and loved reading. When he was in middle school, in order to gain more time to study, he cut off one leg of the wooden bed he slept on by half a foot to make it a three-legged bed. He read late at night every day. When he was tired, he went to bed and took a nap. Then he turned over in a daze and the bed tilted towards the short leg. He was suddenly awakened, and immediately got out of bed and sat down at his desk to read at night. This happens every day, without interruption. As a result, he achieved excellent results every year and was known as one of the three heroes in his class. Because he studied diligently when he was young, he finally became an outstanding economist in our country.

When Zhuge Liang was a boy, he studied under Mr. Shui Jing, Sima Hui. Zhuge Liang studied hard and was diligent in using his brain. Not only did Sima Hui appreciate him, but Sima Hui's wife also thought highly of him. She liked this diligent and studious person. A boy who is good at using his brain. At that time, there were no clocks and sundials were used to keep time, and there was no sun on rainy days. Time is difficult to control. In order to keep track of time, Sima Hui trained the rooster to crow on time by feeding it regularly. In order to learn more, Zhuge Liang wanted his teacher to extend the lecture time, but his teacher always took the rooster's crowing as the criterion. So Zhuge Liang thought: If the rooster crowing time is extended, the teacher's lecture time will also be extended. So he would bring some grain in his pocket when he went to school. When the chicken was about to crow, he would feed it some grain, and the chicken would stop crowing once it was full.

After some time, Mr. Sima wondered why the chicken didn't crow on time. After careful observation, he found that Zhuge Liang fed the chicken when it was about to crow. The husband was very angry at first, but soon he was moved by Zhuge Liang's studious spirit. He cared more about him, valued him more, and had no reservations about his education. And Zhuge Liang was even more diligent. Through Zhuge Liang's own efforts, he finally became a well-educated man with knowledge of astronomy and geography.

Confucius studied diligently throughout his life. In his later years, he especially liked the Book of Changes. The I Ching is difficult to understand and difficult to learn, but Confucius was not afraid of hardship and read it over and over again until he understood it. Because in Confucius' time, paper had not yet been invented, and books were written on bamboo slips or wooden slips, which were bulky and heavy. Many bamboo slips were woven together with leather strips to form a book. Because Confucius studied hard and displayed his slips so many times that his leather strap was broken three times. Later, people coined the idiom "Weibian Sanjue" to convey Confucius' diligent and studious spirit.

Su Qin during the Warring States Period was too tired after studying day and night, so he stabbed his leg with an awl to clear his mind; Sun Jing in the Han Dynasty, in order to prevent drowsiness while studying, he used a rope to tie his Her hair was tied to the rafters, and she would be pulled awake whenever she dozed off. This is the story of "thorns hanging on the beam" in history.

The families of Che Yin, Sun Kang, and Kuang Heng of the Jin Dynasty were all very poor and could not even afford oil for lighting lamps. On summer evenings, Che Yin made a small bag with gauze, caught some fireflies and put it in it, and read with the light emitted by the fireflies; Sun Kang sat in the snow on a cold winter night, using the reflection of the snow to read hard; Kuang Heng I cut a small hole in the wall and "stole" some light from my neighbor's house to read. The idioms "The firefly reflects the snow" and "The wall is cut to steal the light" tell these stories.

Wang Xizhi, the great calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, practiced calligraphy hard since he was a child. Every time he finished writing, he would go to the pond in front of his house to wash his brush. Over time, the pool of clear water turned into a pool of ink. Later, people called this pond "Mochi".

Through diligent study and practice, Wang Xizhi finally became a famous calligrapher and was known as the "Sage of Calligraphy".

Song Lian, a famous essayist and scholar in the Ming Dynasty, was eager to learn since childhood. He was not only knowledgeable, but also good at writing articles. He was praised by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, as "the first civil servant in the founding of the country." Song Lian loves reading very much, and always asks for details when encountering something she doesn’t understand. Once, in order to figure out a problem, Song Lian walked dozens of miles in the snow to consult Teacher Mengji, who no longer accepted students, but the teacher was not at home. Song Lian was not discouraged and visited the teacher again a few days later, but the teacher did not receive him. Because of the cold weather, Song Lian and his companions were freezing. Song Lian's toes were all frostbitten. When Song Lian visited alone for the third time, he fell into a snow pit and was fortunately rescued. When Song Lian almost fainted at the door of the teacher's house, the teacher was moved by his sincerity and patiently answered Song Lian's questions. Later, in order to gain more knowledge, Song Lian was not afraid of hardships and hardships, and visited many teachers, and finally became a famous essayist!

It was late at night, and the sound of reading suddenly came from the Buddhist temple. The young monks were frightened, thinking there was a ghost inside, and immediately reported it to the old monk. So the old monk led the young monk to catch ghosts. Unexpectedly, the "ghost" turned out to be a poor boy named Liu Xie, who was borrowing a Buddhist lamp to study. After studying hard, Liu Xie finally became a great literary theorist.

The mathematician Hua Luogeng has a unique way of reading. Every time he reads a book, he doesn't read it from cover to cover as soon as he starts it. Instead, he closes his eyes and meditates on the book, guessing what is written in the book. After thinking for a while, open the book. If the content of the book is consistent with his guess, he will stop reading; if it is different from his guess, he will read it seriously. Hua Luogeng's "guessing reading method" not only saves reading time, but also cultivates his thinking and imagination abilities.

Hou Baolin, the language master, only went to elementary school for three years. Because of his diligence and studious, he finally became a famous cross talk artist. Once, he wanted to buy a Ming Dynasty joke book "Jian Lang", but he went to all the used bookstalls in Beijing and failed to do so. Later, he learned that the Beijing Library had this book. It was winter, and he ran to the library to copy books for eighteen consecutive days despite the wind and snow. A book of more than 100,000 words was finally copied by him. Wen Yiduo is addicted to reading and gets "drunk" as soon as he reads it. It is said that on his wedding day, his home was decorated with lights and colorful, and it was very lively. Relatives and friends came to congratulate him. When the wedding sedan arrived at the door of the house, the groom could not be found. Everyone was so anxious that they looked around, and finally found him in the study.

I saw that he was still wearing his old robe and was concentrating on reading.