1. Su Xun worked hard

Su Xun was a famous writer in the Song Dynasty and one of the eight great writers of the Tang and Song Dynasties. He was very playful when he was a child, but it was not until he was twenty-seven that he realized the importance of studying. From then on, he began to study vigorously and seize all time to study. One year during the Dragon Boat Festival, Su Xun got up in the study room to study. His wife brought a plate of rice dumplings and a plate of sugar into the study.

At nearly noon, when the lady was preparing the plate, she found that the rice dumplings had been finished, but the sugar in the plate was still intact, and there were a lot of glutinous rice grains on the left and right inkstones. It turned out that Su Xun was just immersed in studying and mistakenly mistook the inkstone for a sugar dish. It is with this spirit of carefulness and hard work that Su Xun became a literary master.

2. The eighty-two-year-old number one scholar

Liang Hao was from the Five Dynasties era, but he was the number one scholar in the Song Taizong era. He has been going to Beijing to take exams since the third year of Tianfu in the Later Jin Dynasty (938) of the Five Dynasties, and went through two short dynasties, the Later Han Dynasty and the Later Zhou Dynasty. Although he failed many times in the exam, he never cared about it and always said mockingly: "Take one exam and I will be one step closer to the number one scholar."

Until the second year of Emperor Yongxi of the Song Dynasty (985) , he was admitted to Jinshi and was selected as the number one scholar. He took the first-class examination for forty-seven years and participated in forty examinations. He was already an old man with white hair when he won the first prize.

In the main hall, Taizong asked him his age, and he claimed: "Haosou is poor in scriptures, and he is eight years old when he is young; Qingyun is lucky, and he is two years older than Taigong." He said that he was eighty-two years old. Years old. Just two sentences contain the hard work and bitterness of the geometry examination!

3. Kuang Heng used the light to study by chiseling into the wall

Kuang Heng was a famous Confucian scholar in the Western Han Dynasty. He loved studying since he was a child and worked hard, but his family could not afford lamp oil and could not study at night. One night, while he was lying in bed silently reciting the "Book of Songs" he had read during the day, he noticed that the lights in his neighbor's house were brightly lit. Kuang Heng was envious of people who were studying under the lamplight, so he frowned. He thought of it and borrowed the lamp from his neighbor's house so that he could study.

Kuang Heng was thinking about how to borrow light to read. The light cast huge figures onto the wall, resembling monsters, dangling weirdly on the wall. Xiao Kuangheng frowned and thought: If I secretly dig a hole here, the neighbor's light can pass through the wall and shine into my small room. I won't be able to use this light to study. ?

He happily climbed out of bed, found a chisel, and dug a small cave in a remote place under the wall. In an instant, the light illuminated a small area. Kuang Heng quickly took out the "Book of Songs" from the bedside, moved to the small piece of precious light, and began to read hard while listening. Kuang Heng's parents felt very happy and sad at the same time when they saw Kuang Heng working so hard.

From then on, Kuang Heng helped the adults with farm work during the day, and at night, with the help of a small beam of light borrowed from a neighbor, he kept reading. Through unremitting efforts, Finally became a generation of scholars.

4. Lü Meng studied

Lü Meng was a general of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. He had made great achievements many times, but he did not like reading. So Sun Quan said to Lu Meng: "You are now a general, and you have a heavy burden on your shoulders. You must read more and gain more knowledge." Lu Meng began to study. Slowly, he discovered that there were many things in the book that he had never known before.

Once, he read the story of Sun Bin using the "reduction plan" to induce Pang Juan to underestimate the enemy, and finally defeated Pang Juan, which opened his eyes. As a result, Lu Meng gradually fell in love with reading. When he was not busy with military affairs, he dived into the pile of books and read eagerly ancient military art and history books. Over the past few years, Lu Meng's military ability has improved greatly. Sun Quan was very happy and made Lu Meng the governor-general, commanding the country's troops.

5. Che Yin’s reading at night

Che Yin was a famous official in the Jin Dynasty and was famous for his erudition. He has been diligent and studious since he was a child, but his family is very poor and sometimes cannot even afford oil for lighting lamps. In this way, Che Yin could not study at night, and he was very distressed about this.

One summer night, Che Yin sat boredly outside the house enjoying the cool air. At this time, the fireflies flying around in the grass caught his attention. The flashes of light on those little bugs looked like lights.

He quickly found a small bag made of white gauze, caught dozens of fireflies in one breath and put them in his pocket. When the light from so many bugs is gathered together, isn’t it just a small lamp? Che Yin took this "lamp" and happily went into the house to study. In this way, Che Yin finally became a learned man after years of hard study.

6. Reading makes people enriched, talking makes people agile, and writing makes people precise. ——Bacon

7. Time gives us experience, and reading gives us knowledge. ——Ostrovsky

8. Reading a good book is talking to many noble people.

——Descartes