Su Qin, a native of Luoyang, learned the strategy of uniting with Lian Heng, persuaded the king of Qin, and wrote more than ten proposals, all to no avail. Finally, all his money was used up, and he went home in pain. When he got home, his wife didn't mend him, his sister-in-law didn't cook for him, and his parents didn't recognize him as a son.
Su Qin sighed and said, "It's all the fault of the king of Qin. Explain that Su Qin is his own fault, but our teacher thinks it is the fault of Qin Wang. To use Su Qin, change "King of Qin" to "Me!"
He vowed to study hard and said, "What's impossible? ! "When I was about to fall asleep reading, I stabbed myself in the thigh with an awl, and blood flowed to my feet. Later, it joined forces with Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Wei and South Korea to resist the State of Qin, and later became the seal of the six countries.
2. Li Shizhen
In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen abandoned his father's desire to read eight-part essay in the imperial examination and devoted himself to the medical book Shennong Materia Medica. He found that many Chinese medicine practitioners did not record it in detail and decided to write a detailed medical book seriously. He studied every Chinese medicine in the book very carefully, and finally finished his masterpiece Compendium of Materia Medica more than 30 years later.
3. Sima Qian
Sima Qian followed his father's last wish and determined to write a history book of "Tibetan famous mountains will be handed down to future generations". In the seventh year when he started writing this history book, the case of Li Ling happened. Li Ling, the general of the Second Normal University, was defeated and surrendered because he was outnumbered in a war with Xiongnu. Sima Qian defended Li Ling, angered Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was arrested and imprisoned, and suffered cruel "corruption".
After being punished, I tried to commit suicide because of humiliation and pain, but I can think that my ideal of writing history books has not been completed. So I swallowed my pride and rose up to resist, which lasted 18 years and was finally written as Historical Records. This masterpiece has a total of 526,500 words.
Creating a general history of China's biography, with rich and informative historical materials, has always been respected by people. Lu Xun once spoke highly of Historical Records in a very general language: "Historians never sing, and there is no rhyme."