There are "Throwing a Pen and Joining the Army", "Dancing upon Hearing the Roosters", "Su Wu Shepherding Sheep", "Chicking the Wall to Steal the Light", "Tao Mu's Responsible Son", etc.

1. "Throwing a Pen and Joining the Army"

Ban Chao was a famous strategist and diplomat in the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the fifth year of Yongping, Ban Gu was summoned to serve as the school secretary, and Ban Chao and his mother also came. To Luoyang.

Ban Chao came from a poor family and worked as a copywriter in the government to support his mother. He once wrote and sighed: "A real man should serve the country on the frontier. Like Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian, how can he always make a living between pens and inkstones?" ”

2. "Dancing after hearing the Chicken"

It is said that Zu Ti, a general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was very ambitious when he was young. Every time he discussed the current situation with his friend Liu Kun, he was always impassioned. Full of righteous indignation and in order to serve the country, they would get up in their clothes as soon as they heard the rooster crow in the middle of the night, draw their swords and practice martial arts, and exercise hard.

3. "Su Wu Shepherds Sheep"

In the first year of Tianhan (100 BC), Su Wu was ordered to send Zhonglang General Chijie as an envoy to the Xiongnu, but was detained. The Xiongnu nobles repeatedly threatened and lured him to surrender;

later they moved him to the North Sea (one says it is Lake Baikal in Russia today, another says it is Baiting Sea in Gansu today) to shepherd sheep, holding a Han Dynasty talisman. , threatening to release Gongyang back to his country only if he had a son.

Su Wu went through many hardships and stayed with the Xiongnu for nineteen years without giving up. In the sixth year of the First Yuan Dynasty (81 BC), he was released and returned to the Han Dynasty. After his death, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty listed him as one of the eleven heroes of Qilin Pavilion, which showed his integrity.

4. "Cutting the Wall to Steal the Light"

In the Han Dynasty, there was a man named Kuang Heng who was diligent and studious, but his family was very poor and could not afford candles. Kuang Heng had to work during the day. He only had time to study at night, so Kuang Heng had no choice but to study hard by candlelight in a small hole in his neighbor's house. Finally, he became a famous scholar by reading poetry and books.

5. "Tao's Mother Responsible for Her Son"

Tao Kan, a native of the Jin Dynasty, was a general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. When he was young, he served as an official in charge of rivers and fisheries. He once gave his mother a clay pot of kippers.

My mother asked, "Where did this come from?" The envoy said, "It belongs to the government." The mother sealed the pickled fish and wrote back, reproaching Tao Kan and saying, "As an official, you should Giving me government items is not only useless, it also adds to my sorrow!”