* In his later years, Ouyang Xiu made painstaking efforts to revise the words he wrote in his life every day. His wife told him not to revise them, saying: Why torture himself like this? Are you still afraid of being scolded by the teacher? Ouyang Xiu laughed: I'm not afraid of being scolded by my husband, but I'm afraid of being laughed at by future generations. * Mark Twain worked in a newspaper when he was young. Six months later, the editor-in-chief told him not to come back tomorrow. Mark Twain asked why? The editor-in-chief said: Because you are too lazy. Mark Twain listened and smiled and replied: It will take you six months to find out that I am lazy, but I knew it on the first day I entered the newspaper. * Yang Xiu, a close minister of Cao Cao in the later Han Dynasty, was very smart when he was nine years old. One day, his father visited him with Kong Ping, and he was going to entertain him with Yangmei. When Kong Ping saw it, he jokingly asked: Is this the fruit of your family? Yang Xiu immediately replied: I have never heard that peacocks are your poultry! * When Su Shi was the county magistrate of Hangzhou in Song Dynasty, there was a county resident who made a living as a fan, but it was cold and the fan could not be sold, so he owed taxes. Dongpo asked him to draw dead wood and bamboo stones on it with a fan, and drew more than 2 fans. Only when the county resident walked out of the county gate, someone came to buy it. Therefore, all the taxes owed were paid off. * Italian Renaissance painter Rafael drew a portrait of Maria holding the son Jesus, on her right. There is a maid in the lower left. But there is a big blank right below, and he is thinking about what to make up. At this moment, he sees two children in the window of a nearby bakery from the studio window. The older one is about four or five years old, holding his chin, looking up at the sky and talking to his brother. The younger one is leaning on his arms and listening to his brother. Raphael thinks it is beautiful, so he draws them at the bottom of the picture, and with wings, it becomes two. What is done in thinking is destroyed in following-Han Yu 3. Learning without thinking is useless, and thinking without learning is dangerous-Confucius 4. Those who know are not as good as those who are good, and those who are good are not as happy as those who are good-Confucius 5. There must be a teacher in a threesome. Choose those who are good and follow them, and change those who are not-Confucius 6. Be interested in Poetry, stand on ceremony, and be happy-Confucius 7. Don't do to others what you don't want them to do-Confucius 8. Read thousands of books and write like a god-Du Fu 9. Read three books, which means heart, eyes and mouth-Zhu Xi 1.