1. It's beautiful, but it doesn't hide evil
Sima Qian always adhered to the principle of loyalty and never took it personally when writing Historical Records. In Biography of Li Guang, he described Li Guang's shooting tigers, retreating from the enemy and escaping from danger, which was vivid and true, and tiger tiger was alive. Between the lines, full of admiration. But at the same time, he also wrote about his narrow-mindedness, and the shortcomings of the official newspaper's personal vendetta against his subordinates. He was full of sympathy for Xiang Yu, but described in detail his doomed fate; He hated Liu Bang, but truthfully wrote Liu Bang's strengths, talents and conditions for his inevitable success.
Historical Records written by Sima Qian with a pragmatic attitude. Ban Gu, a historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, praised this book: "It is not empty, but unstable and evil."
2. Lu Xun is responsible for the annotation
Lu Xun translated the novel "Dead Soul" by Nikolai Gogol, a famous Russian writer in the 19th century, and turned to the following sentence: "It is almost the sculpture of Winus, who just came out of the bath, but Lu Xun has never seen this sculpture, so he can't figure out the modality and position of the bather. Mr. Lu Xun has always been serious and never careless. He stopped his pen and looked up all kinds of reference books. I heard that there was an encyclopedia of fine arts in Japan with this carved picture. He tried to buy it, but he still found nothing. After unremitting efforts, the statue was finally found, and after carefully studying the shape of the statue, the notes were written.
3. Li Siguang did the experiment
Whether there is in-situ stress in this shell, and whether people living on the earth are directly affected by it. There are different opinions on this issue, and there is no conclusion. Li Siguang, a famous geologist in China, believes that scientists should seek truth from facts, and only through experiments can we explain the problem. Nearly eighty years old, regardless of his weak health, he personally led his assistants to the suburbs of Beijing to do field experiments. He overcame the discouragement of his assistants, went to the machine in person, held the cold iron handle, held his breath, gripped the iron handle tightly, and kept a close eye on the change of the instrument value. The results prove the existence of in-situ stress, and the test is successful.
4. Edison, the great inventor
Thomas Alva Edison is a world-famous American electrician and inventor. Looking back at human history, we can find that there are many people who have made inventions or discoveries in the history of science and technology, but like Thomas Alva Edison, there are so many inventions, and he has devoted his life to them with perseverance and dedication throughout his 84-year-old life. It can be said that it is rare. In his life, he invented the electric light, telegraph, phonograph, movie machine, magnetic mineral analyzer, crusher and other things totaling more than 2, minutes.
5. Sima Guang smashed the jar < P > Once, he was playing with his friends in the backyard, and a child climbed onto the jar and fell into the water in the jar. As soon as the other children saw something was wrong, they gave up and ran away, but Sima Guang used his quick wits to pick up a big stone from the ground and hit it hard at the water tank. The water gushed out and the child was saved.