A Collection of 15 Ancient Reading Stories 1

Dai Zhen was a famous scholar in Qing Dynasty. He has been studying since he was a child, and he is fond of asking questions.

On one occasion, the teacher in a private school gave him a lecture on Zhu Xi's Chapters and Sentences of the University. After a paragraph on "The Way of the University", he said literally: "This chapter is called The Classic, which was written by Confucius; The following ten chapters are called Biography, which is Ceng Zi's opinion and written by students in Ceng Zi. "

Dai Zhen asked, "Teacher, what is the basis for you to say this?" "This is what Zhu Xi said!" The teacher replied confidently, thinking that the problem could be solved by bringing out "Master Zhu".

"Where is Zhu Xi from?" Dai Zhen cocked his little head and asked.

"Song Dynasty people."

"What about Confucius and Ceng Zi?"

"Zhou people."

"So, how many years were there between the Zhou Dynasty and the Song Dynasty?"

"nearly 2xx years."

"In that case, how did Zhu Xi know?"

Dai Zhen's childish face was full of doubts, and the teacher was suddenly asked, but at the moment he couldn't think of any appropriate words to answer. Shu Shi smiled and touched Dai Zhen's head and said, "You are really a brainy child!"

Later, Dai Zhen couldn't afford a teacher because his family was poor. After leaving the private school, he had to learn by himself. The road to self-study is bumpy, and Dai Zhen is very eager to worship a knowledgeable scholar as his teacher.

once, with an unexpected opportunity, Dai Zhen met Jiang Yong, a great scholar who came to visit friends in Shexian by chance. Jiang Yong is over sixty years old, with white hair. He has been studying for decades and is proficient in three rites, including phonology, mathematics and geography. He is kind, studious and thoughtful, and likes reading very much. He often spends all his income from lectures on books. Dai Zhen admired him at first sight and asked Jiang Yong about his usual problems.

Jiang Yong saw that he was eager to learn, and he was very fond of him. He immediately accepted him as a disciple and carefully taught and trained him. Gradually, the two men became friends who forgot the year. Influenced by Jiang Yong, Dai Zhen's thoughts, personality and studies began to mature gradually.

One day, Jiang Yong asked Dai Zhen about some problems in arithmetic and told him, "These problems have been in doubt for more than ten years and have not been solved. Can you try?"

Dai Zhen looked at these topics carefully, then analyzed and compared them one by one, and told the ins and outs.

Jiang Yong was so surprised after reading it that he danced like a child with joy and repeatedly said, "You have solved a problem that I can't solve in ten years. You are really clever."

From then on, Dai Zhen followed Jiang Yong around, questioning and studying knowledge at any time. Eventually become a famous textual research scientist. Ancient people's reading story 2

Studying hard in the cellar

Once, when Fan Zhongyan was reading in the cave, two mice jumped into the porridge pot and squeaked. When he looked up, there were two mice, one white and one yellow. Fan Zhongyan hurried to drive the mouse out. The two rats hurriedly escaped from the hole and got to both sides of the Jing tree. Fan Zhongyan chased after the tree and saw that one side of the rat hole was flashing yellow light and the other side was flashing white light. He was very surprised. He took a shovel and dug up one side of the rat hole. There turned out to be a big cellar below, but it was full of gold. He buried it conveniently. Digging the rat hole on the other side, I found a cellar of silver, but I still didn't move a penny. I buried it as before and went back to the cave to read at night.

Thirty years after leaving the temple, Liquan Temple was hit by a fire. Master Huitong couldn't bear to destroy the temple by himself, so he sent someone to find Fan Zhongyan who had been guarding the border in Yanzhou for help. Fan Zhongyan inquired about the temple and warmly entertained the visitors, but he didn't mention anything about repairing the temple. When he left, he wrote a book and presented two packets of good tea for the visitors to reply to Master Huitong. The monks in the temple were angry when they heard that Fan Zhongyan kept silent about repairing the temple.

One day, Master Huitong read a five-character poem: "One pool of gold in Jingdong, one pool of silver in Jingxi, half building a temple and half helping monks." Huitong and others paid infinite respect to Fan Zhongyan's noble character of not being greedy for money and goods, and kept secret. They used the gold nuggets to repair the temple and Liquan Temple was revived. This is Zou Ping's well-known story of "studying hard in the cellar" and "donating money to monks". Fan Zhongyan studied hard in Liquan Temple for three years, which was of great significance in his life.

On the one hand, he studied hard and read widely, laying a solid knowledge base; On the other hand, he cultivated and exercised his hard-working spirit and tenacious will to overcome difficulties. Ancient people's reading story 3

People who dig wells

Lv Buwei's Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals

The original text

Song Zhiding's family, who had no well to irrigate, often lived away from home. When his family went through the well, they told people, "One person in my family went through the well." Those who heard about it said, "Ding Shi got one person who went through the well."

Chinese people know what it is, and they heard it from Song Jun.. Song Jun was asked by Ding. Ding Shi said to him, "You have to be alone in the well if you want one person." If you want to smell it, if you don't smell it, don't smell it.

Translation

There was a man named Ding in Song State. There was no well at home, so he had to send a laborer to fetch water outside the village every day. Later, they dug a well at home, and everyone said, "When I dug a well at home, I got a person. "After three rounds of communication, the story changed, saying," The Ding family dug a well and dug up a living person. "

The more you spread it, the more strange it became, and finally it reached the ears of the King of Song. Song Jun sent officials to Ding's house to investigate. Ding said, "I said that digging a well equals getting a labor force, not digging a living person from the well. "It's better not to listen to rumors like this.

you should know how to distinguish the truth from the falsehood of information, and don't spread it around. Information obtained through indirect channels may be unreliable.

Xu Jin is not paid

Liu Ji's Yu Ion

The original text

A Jia man who helped Yin, crossed the river and died in his boat, perched on a floating raft, with no name. Some fishermen went to rescue them by boat, but before they arrived, Jia people cried out, "The huge room I helped can save me and give you a hundred gold. "Fishermen who ascend to the land with loads will be given ten gold.

The fisherman said, "It's beyond reproach to give 1 gold to Xu, and now give 1 gold!" Jia Renbo became angry and said, "If the fishermen do, what will they gain in a day?"? "And ten gold in a flash is not enough?" The fisherman retreated in dismay.

On another day, Jia people floated down from Lvliang, and the boat was thinner than the stone and covered, but the fisherman was absent. People say, "Save all the people?" The fisherman said, "It is also a person who promises money without paying it." Stand and watch it, and it's gone.

translation

There is a businessman in the south of Jishui. When crossing the river, his boat capsized and he shouted for help. There was a fisherman who sailed to save him. Before the boat arrived, the businessman shouted, "I'm a monopoly. Save me and I'll give you one hundred and twenty pieces of silver!" " The fisherman rescued him ashore, but he only gave him twelve taels of silver.

The fisherman said, "You just said one hundred taels. Why do you only give twelve taels now?" The merchant was furious: "How much can you earn a day fishing?" I got twelve taels of silver at once. Aren't you satisfied? " The fisherman left in dismay.

some days later, when the businessman crossed the river, the boat hit a stone and sank again, and it happened that the fisherman was there again. Someone asked, "Why don't you save people?" The fisherman replied, "This is a man who doesn't keep his word." As a result, the businessman was drowned.

be honest, or you will end up hurting others and yourself.

Owl Moves

Liu Xiang Shuo Yuan

The original text

The owl meets the dove, and the dove says, "Will the child be safe?" The owl said, " I'm going east. ". ” The turtle dove asked: " what reason?" ？ ” The owl said, "The villagers all hate me, so they moved eastward." The dove said, "I can sing more, but I can;" It can't be louder, and the eastward migration is still evil. "

translation

The owl met the turtledove, and the turtledove asked him, "Where are you going?" The owl said, "I'm going to move to the east." Turtledove asked, "Why?" The owl said, "everyone in the village hates my cry, so I want to move to the east." Turtledove said, "You can change the call. If you can't change your cry, even if you move to the east, people in the east village will still hate you. "

Don't choose an evasive attitude towards your own shortcomings and mistakes, but be brave enough to correct them.

drinking crazy spring

Shen Yue's Book of Songs

Original

Once upon a time, there was a country with a state-owned water called "crazy spring". Chinese people are all crazy when they drink this water. Only the monarch crossed the well and took it, so it was all right. Since the Chinese people are crazy, they say that the monarch is not crazy but crazy.

So they made a concerted effort to * * * rule the monarch and cure his madness. Fire, acupuncture and medicine were all necessary. The monarch didn't let it suffer, so he went to the spring to drink it, and after drinking it, he went crazy. The size of the monarch and the minister is as crazy as one, and the Chinese people are happy.

Translation

Once upon a time, there was a country with a spring called "Crazy Spring". Everyone in the country drinks this water, and no one is not crazy. Only the monarch digs a well to get water to drink it. Chinese people are crazy, but it is really crazy to say that the monarch is not crazy.

Therefore, Chinese people gathered to plan, captured the monarch, and treated the monarch's madness. Acupuncture and herbs were used all over. The monarch couldn't bear this kind of suffering, so he went to the location of the "crazy spring" and drank it. Therefore, the monarch and his subjects are crazy, and people in the country are very happy.

Everyone is drunk and I wake up alone. It is extremely difficult for a person with a healthy mind and normal behavior to stay awake when everyone turns black and white.

Zhao people suffer from rats

Liu Ji's Yu Ion

The original text

Zhao people suffer from rats and beg cats in Zhongshan. Zhongshan people give it, cats are good at catching mice and chickens. At the end of the month, the mouse is exhausted and its chicken is exhausted. When his son suffered from it, he told his father, "What are you going to do?"

His father said, "If you know right and wrong, you will know it. I suffer from rats, and I don't care about chickens. If my husband has rats, he will steal my food, destroy my clothes, wear my walls, and damage my tools. I will be hungry and cold. Don't get sick without chickens? If you don't have a chicken, if you eat chicken, you will have ears, and it is still far from hunger and cold. If you go to your husband and cat! "

Translation

A family in Zhao suffered from rat, so they went to Zhongshan to borrow a cat. Zhongshan people gave him a cat, which is good at catching mice, but also likes catching chickens. A month later, the mice were caught clean and the chickens were eaten up. His son thinks cats are evil and says to his father, "Why not get rid of them?"

Father said, "This is not what you think. Our misfortune lies in having mice at home, not in not having chickens. Rats steal food, chew clothes, drill through walls and chew furniture, so we will starve and freeze, which is worse than not having chickens! Without chicken, we just don't eat chicken, which is far from being hungry and cold! Why get rid of the cat? "

the lesser of the two evils, the heavier of the two benefits. Simply put, it is to weigh the pros and cons, and to choose the advantages over the disadvantages. Ancient reading story 4

Tang Ruxun was a Ming Dynasty man. When he was a child, he was both clever and lovely. Who knows, when he was five years old, he unfortunately got smallpox, which made Tang Ruxun's world lose its light.

He can no longer see the beautiful scenery outside, the smiles on his friends' faces and his relatives. He was in great pain. However, with the growth of his age, he gradually adapted to the days without light and began to face life positively.

When the brothers are in class, Tang Ruxun listens carefully and remembers attentively. Although he is strong, he also encounters difficulties in the process of learning. Because he can't see, he often has to make much more efforts than others. Sometimes, the text is so long that he can't remember what Mr. Wang said by ear at all, so he has to learn from the ancients to remember with knots. He also likes poetry, because the artistic conception depicted in poetry can be appreciated without eyes. After unremitting efforts, Tang Ruxun finally became a scholar and poet in the Ming Dynasty. Ancient reading story 5

Wang Mian, a character stamp, was born in Zhuji, Zhejiang at the end of Yuan Dynasty. When he was young, his family was very poor, and his father asked him to herd cattle for the rich man's family and earn a few pence to supplement his family life.

Wang Mian was studious at an early age. Every time he passed by the township school, he heard the sound of reading in it, then stopped, tied the cow to the tree and listened attentively outside. On one occasion, he was listening to a class outside the township school until it was dark, so he ran away from the cow. When my father heard that he had lost the cow of the rich man's family, he was afraid and angry and gave him a good beating. However, he didn't "repent", and when he went out to herd cattle and passed by the school, he still listened attentively to the teacher as before.

One day, Wang Mian's mother said to his father, "Since Wang Mian is so demented, just let him go!" Father nodded his head and agreed. From then on, Wang Mian went to a temple to do chores for the temple during the day to make a living; At night, I sat alone on the Buddha's knee and read by the bright light in front of the Buddha. As a result of Wang Mian's assiduous study, he made rapid progress in learning and finally became an excellent poet. Ancient reading story 6

Sun Kang's family is very poor and can't afford lamp oil. One night in the middle of the night, Sun Kang woke up from his sleep, and when he turned his head to the window, he found a ray of light in the window. It turned out that it was the light reflected from the heavy snow. He found that he could use it to read books. So he was so tired that he immediately got dressed, took out his books and went outside. The snow light reflected on the wide earth is much brighter than that in the room. Regardless of the cold, Sun Kang immediately read a book, his hands and feet were frozen, so he got up and ran, rubbing his fingers at the same time. Since then, every snowy night, he never misses this good opportunity and studies tirelessly. This spirit of studying hard has promoted his knowledge to advance by leaps and bounds and become a knowledgeable person. Later, he became an ancient scholar.

In the Jin Dynasty, Che Yin was always eager to learn, but because of his poor family, his father could not provide him with a good learning environment. In order to maintain food and clothing, there is no extra money to buy lamp oil for him to study at night. To this end, he can only recite poems during the day. One night in summer, he was reciting an article in the yard when he suddenly saw many fireflies flying in the low altitude. The flashing light spots are a bit dazzling in the dark. He thought, if you put many fireflies together, wouldn't it become a lamp? So, he went to find a white silk bag, immediately caught dozens of fireflies and put them in it, then tied the bag mouth and hung it up. It's not very bright, but it can be used for reading. From then on, as long as there are fireflies, he will catch one and use it as a lamp. Because he was diligent and inquisitive, he finally achieved something, and he went to the official department to be a minister. Ancient reading story 7

Books in the Spring and Autumn Period mainly used bamboo as a bamboo slip to write, ranging from dozens of words to as few as _ words. A book should use many bamboo slips, which are connected in order by strong ropes and the like, and then it is finally a book, which is easy to read. Usually, those woven with silk thread are called "silk weaving", those woven with hemp rope are called "rope weaving" and those woven with cooked cowhide rope are called "Wei weaving", among which the cooked cowhide rope is the strongest. A book as heavy as Zhouyi is of course made up of many bamboo slips woven together by ripe cowhide ropes.

Confucius, who was fond of changes in his later years, spent a lot of energy reading the Book of Changes many times over and over again, with many notes. I don't know how many times he read it again and again. It is generally believed that Confucius read this way, linking bamboo slips in series.