The names of hard-working fables include: hanging a book by an ox's horn, chiseling a wall to steal light, reflecting snow in a firefly's sac, hanging from a beam and pricking the buttocks, Su Dongpo took the exam, Chen Ping endured humiliation and studied hard, Lu Yu abandoned Buddhism and turned to literature, Young Bao Zheng Xue solved the case, Wan Sitong studied hard behind closed doors, and Tang Bohu devoted himself to studying painting.

Among them, Cutting Through the Wall and Stealing the Light is about Kuang Heng, a famous scholar in the Western Han Dynasty, who was born in a peasant family and lived in very poverty. He had been eager to study since he was a child, but his parents could not afford to send him to school or even buy books. Kuang Heng had to borrow books from others.

One night, Kuang Heng really wanted to read before going to bed, but because his family was so poor that he didn’t even have lamp oil, he couldn’t light a lamp and read. When Kuang Heng was worried, he suddenly found a ray of light coming from the gap in the wall. It turned out to be the neighbor's light.

Kuang Heng came up with a plan and used a chisel to dig the small slit into a small hole. Then he held the book, leaned against the wall, and read with the weak light. From then on, Kuang Heng borrowed the neighbor's light every night and studied hard, and finally became a famous scholar.

Quotes about diligence

1. Life depends on diligence, nothing can be gained without asking. ——Zhang Heng

2. Work is accomplished by hard work but wasteful by playfulness; success is achieved by thinking but destroyed by casualness. ——Han Yu

3. Genius is the ability to work hard and diligently without end. ——Carlyle

4. Intelligence comes from hard work, and genius comes from accumulation. ——Hua Luogeng

5. Being eager to learn but not diligent in asking questions is not a truly good scholar.

6. There is a road to the mountain of books, and diligence is the path, and there is no limit to the sea of ??learning, and hard work is the boat.