Books hanging on horns
In the Tang Dynasty, Li Mi heard that Bao Kai was in Goushan and went to visit him. He rode an ox, hung a volume of "Book of Han" on its horns, and read as he walked. Yang Su, the Duke of Yue, saw him on the road and followed him from behind, pulling the reins of his horse, and asked, "What book made you so diligent?" Li Mi said it was "The Biography of Xiang Yu". Yang Su then discussed with Li Mi and thought that he was a genius (see "New Book of Tang·Biography of Li Mi"). Later, "book hanging by horns" was used as a metaphor for diligent study.
Nang Ying Ying Xue
This is an allusion composed of two stories. Bag fireflies: use bags to hold fireflies; Yingxue: use the reflection of snow. Use the light of the fireflies in your pocket and the reflection of the snow to read at night.
Che Yin studied diligently, kept reading, and was erudite and talented. However, his family was poor and could not afford lamp oil. In summer, he used white cloth bags to hold dozens of fireflies and used the light they emitted to illuminate his reading day and night (see " Book of Jin, Biography of Che Yin").
Liang Sun Kang in the Southern Dynasties had a poor family and had no money to buy candles. He often read under the light of snow at night. Later generations often regard the two allusions "The firefly reflects the snow" as a model of diligent study.
Cut a hole in the wall to borrow light
In the Han Dynasty, Kuang Heng studied diligently but did not have a candle. His neighbor had candle light, so Kuang Heng cut a small hole in the wall and read with the light from the next door. (Contained in "Miscellaneous Notes of Xijing"). Later generations used the term "cutting through walls to borrow light" to describe diligent study.
Three unique features of Wei Bian
Wei Bian: In ancient times, bamboo abbreviations were used to write books, and cooked cowhide ropes were used to connect the bamboo sketches for writing books, which is called "Wei Bian"; three: approximate number , refers to multiple times; Jue: to break. In his later years, Confucius liked to study the "Book of Changes" and compiled "Xici", "Xiangci", "Shuo Gua", "Wenyan" and other "Books of Changes" that explained the "Book of Changes". Due to repeated reading of "The Book of Changes", the rope of the compiled slips was broken many times (see "Historical Records: Confucius Family"). Later, it is generally used to describe diligent study.
thorn-shaped hanging beam
Su Qin was a native of Luoyang in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. He went to the State of Qi and learned the art of vertical and horizontal from Gui Guzi. After he learned it, he went to lobby the King of Qin. He wrote ten times but was not used. The money he brought was used up. He returned home in a very embarrassed state. His brother, younger brother, sister-in-law, sister, and wife , and concubines all laughed at him secretly, saying that he was not doing his job properly and was gossiping, so he deserved his misfortune. Su Qin felt ashamed and secretly sad after hearing this, so he studied hard. When he got sleepy, he pricked his thigh with an awl, woke up and continued reading. Finally, he became the prime minister of the six kingdoms and the co-chief of the six kingdoms. Later, "thorn in the buttocks" was used as a metaphor to study hard.
When Sun Jing of the Han Dynasty was sleepy while studying, he tied his hair with a rope to a beam so that he could wake up from his nap and finally became a great Confucian scholar of the time. Later, he used the metaphor of "thorns and hanging beams" to describe hard self-study.
The eyes cannot peek into the garden
This allusion means having no time to look at the scenery in the garden, describing being immersed in reading and studying. Dong Zhongshu gave lectures and did not leave his house for three years. He had no time to look at the scenery in the garden. His disciples accepted him again, and some of his later disciples had never seen his face. He concentrated on his studies to this extent (see "Hanshu Biography of Dong Zhongshu"). Later it was used to describe immersing oneself in reading without leaving home.
The above stories are too numerous to mention. The ancients were able to restrain themselves, study hard, and achieve great success in a difficult environment. But we are born in a prosperous age and have superior conditions. Can we not study diligently? This article aims to encourage students to learn from the ancients and achieve success
Lin Shu studied hard and became a great writer
Lin Shu (shu) is a famous writer and translator in modern my country Home. He is a native of Fuzhou and was elected in the late Qing Dynasty.
When Lin Shu was a child, his family was very poor, but he loved books. If he couldn't afford books, he had to borrow them from others, copy them himself, and return them at the agreed time. He once drew a coffin on the wall, with the words "Study to survive, not to die in the coffin" written next to it. He used these eight words as a motto to encourage and spur himself. The meaning of this famous saying is that he must study while he is alive. If he does not study, he might as well die. He often wakes up at midnight to excerpt and read hard. Every night he sat in front of the clear oil lamp where his mother used to do needlework, holding a book and reading diligently. He would not fall asleep until he had finished reading a volume. Due to his poor family and the exhaustion of studying, he suffered from lung disease when he was 18 years old. He often coughed up blood for ten consecutive years, but he continued to study hard while lying in bed. By the age of 22, he had read more than 2,000 volumes of ancient books, and by the age of 30, he had read more than 10,000 volumes.
He once said: "Although studying hard is hard work, it is like getting up early in the morning and walking forward in the dark night. The going will become brighter and brighter as you go; having fun is fun, but it is like going out in the evening. If you walk at dusk, it will get darker and darker as you go."
He did not understand foreign languages, but because of his profound literary skills, he actually used a method rarely seen in the world to translate books: more than ten people who knew foreign languages ????succeeded. He also wrote orally and translated more than 1,700 famous works from more than a dozen countries including Britain, the United States, France, Russia, and Japan into Chinese. He set a precedent for translating foreign literary works in China and had a great influence. "La Traviata" by French author Alexandre Dumas was the first foreign novel he co-translated with others. Kang Youwei ranked Lin Shu and Yan Fu as the most outstanding translators at that time, and praised them as "Yan Lin is the most talented translator in the world." The story of Chairman Mao’s reading: Chairman Mao has been very busy for decades, but he always finds time, even every second, to read and study.
His former residence in Zhongnanhai is simply filled with books. Books are everywhere on the bookshelves in the bedroom, on the office desk, dining table, and coffee table. Except for the place where one person is lying on the bed, all of them are occupied by books.
In order to study, Chairman Mao used all available time. During the few minutes of physical activity before swimming, I sometimes read a few poems by famous people. After swimming up, I didn't bother to rest, so I picked up the book again. He never wastes even a few minutes on the toilet. A reprint of "Selected Works of Zhaoming" by Chunxi of the Song Dynasty and some other books and periodicals were made by using this time to read a little bit today and a little bit tomorrow, intermittently.
When Chairman Mao went out to hold meetings or inspect work, he often wrote in the box. He ignored the vibrations and bumps of the train on the way. He always held a magnifying glass in one hand and pressed the page of the book with the other, reading without stopping. When I go abroad, just like in Beijing, there are books placed on the bed, on the office desk, on the coffee table, and on the dining table, and I read them whenever I have free time.
Although Chairman Mao was seriously ill in his later years, he still continued to read. He re-read a set of hardcover "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" that was brought to Beijing from Yan'an and published before liberation, as well as many other books and periodicals.
Once, Chairman Mao had a fever of over 39 degrees, and the doctor did not allow him to read. He said sadly, I have loved reading all my life, but now you don't let me read, and you tell me to lie here and eat and sleep all day long. You know how uncomfortable I am! The staff had no choice but to take the books away again. Putting it next to him, he smiled happily.
Lenin’s reading story:
When he started reading, he lost sight of everything around him. Once, several of his sisters played a prank and built an unstable triangular tower behind him with 6 chairs. As long as Lenin moved, the tower would topple. However, Lenin, who was concentrating on reading, did not notice it and did not move at all. It wasn't until half an hour later, when he finished reading a chapter of the book he was scheduled to read, that he looked up and the wooden tower collapsed...
This story shows that if you want to read the book thoroughly and remember it, you must be highly knowledgeable. Concentrate. The ancients have long said: "There are three ways to read: the heart, the eyes, and the mouth. If the heart is not here, the eyes will not be able to read carefully. The mind is not focused, but it can only read rambles, and it will never be memorized, nor can it be memorized for a long time." Among the three arrivals, the heart is the most anxious. Once the heart has arrived, what’s wrong with the eyes and mouth? ”
Qian Zhongshu’s Reading Story
Qian Zhongshu, Zi Mo Cun, nicknamed Huaiju, once used the pen name Zhongshu Jun. A native of Wuxi, Jiangsu. Scholar, writer, poet. Born into a scholarly family. He was named "Zhongshu" after he caught "Zhou" at the age of one and caught the book. After his uncle passed away, he initiated him into studying. When he was seven or eight years old, he could already devoured "serious" and "irregular" novels collected at home or rented from bookstalls. When I was 14 years old, I read a large number of popular literary magazines such as "Novel World", "Red Rose", "Violet", etc., and browsed them arbitrarily.
After being admitted to the Department of Western Literature at Tsinghua University, I enjoyed reading Chinese and Western books. I never take notes during class, but I often read books unrelated to the course while listening to lectures. Later he studied in England and France. After returning to China, he successively served as professor at Tsinghua University, Southwest Associated University, Lantian National Normal College and other universities. In the early 1950s, he served as a researcher at the Institute of Classical Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was indifferent throughout his life and only loved books. He was called a "bookworm". "As long as there are books to read, there is nothing else to do" (Yang Jiang's "Recording Qian Zhongshu and "The Besieged City"). And reading is entirely out of preference, "like a greedy man who eats delicious food: his food intestines are huge, he doesn't choose the fine and coarse, and he eats both sweet and salty things." He especially likes to read "extremely vulgar books", and he eats sophisticated and profound philosophy, aesthetics, literary theory and other high-level sermons "like a child eating snacks, slowly finishing them thickly". Also likes to read poetry. As for heavy reference books such as dictionaries, dictionaries, and encyclopedias, he "not only read them carefully one by one, letter by letter, but also took the trouble to add new entries to the old books when he saw the new edition." Reading also doubles as taking notes. His passion for reading and writing can be seen from his self-titled poems: "The book addict is swarming around the tree, and the magpie cannot find peace in the tree." He is the author of "Guan Zui Bian", "Tan Yi Lu" and "Besieged City". Among them, the first two academic works alone cite more than 4,000 books. "Besieged City" attracted people who read for a while. After the first edition in the 1940s, there was a saying that "if you don't talk about "Besieged City" in conversation, reading poetry and books is in vain." He is also the author of a collection of novels "Man·Beast·Ghost", a collection of essays "Written on the Edge of Life", and an academic work "Collection of Qizu", etc.
Books are as rich as the sea, and they can be found in all department stores. People’s energy cannot be collected at the same time, but they can only get what they want. Therefore, I hope that scholars will pursue it one at a time.
——Su Shi's "A Brief Story of Dongpo's Collected Works"
When reading a text, you must read it in large paragraphs, raise your spirit, stand up your muscles, and don't be sleepy, as if there is a sword behind you. Just one paragraph needs to be penetrated and struck. The beginning will be followed by the tail, and the tail will be struck by the head, and then it will begin. Don't press the book and then forget it.
——Zhu Xi's "Complete Collection of Zhuzi's Language Classes"
There are three aspects of reading, namely, understanding with the heart, understanding with the eyes, and understanding with the mouth. If the mind is not here, the eyes will not be able to read carefully. The mind will not be focused, but it will only read rambles. It will never be memorized, and it will not last long. Among the three understandings, the heart When you are in the most urgent situation, when your heart is ready, your eyes and mouth will not care.
——Zhu Xi's "Xunxue Zhaigui"
Study is more valuable than erudition. It is better to know one thing but arrive at the destination.
——Dai Zhen's "Chronology of Mr. Dai Dongyuan"
It is most useless to rely on reciting what you have read. .
——Zheng Banqiao
3 Modern Chinese Quotes
A person who is omnipotent is really capable of nothing, and an expert who is expert in everything is really nothing. There is nothing to specialize in...
——Tao Fen's "Collected Works of Tao Fen"
Intensify your study, grasp the center, and rather be refined than miscellaneous, rather special than too many.
——Zhou Enlai's "Selected Works of Zhou Enlai"
Reading is like mining, "mining for gold in the sand".
Lin Shu studied hard and became a great master
Lin Shu ( shu) is a famous writer and translator in modern my country. He is a native of Fuzhou and was elected in the late Qing Dynasty.
When Lin Shu was a child, his family was very poor, but he loved books. If he couldn't afford books, he had to borrow them from others, copy them himself, and return them at the agreed time. He once drew a coffin on the wall, with the words "Study to survive, not to die in the coffin" written next to it. He used these eight words as a motto to encourage and spur himself. The meaning of this famous saying is that he must study while he is alive. If he does not study, he might as well die. He often wakes up at midnight to excerpt and read hard. Every night, he sat in front of the clear oil lamp where his mother used to do needlework, holding a book and studying diligently. He would not sleep until he finished reading a volume. Due to his poor family and the exhaustion of studying, he suffered from lung disease when he was 18 years old. He often coughed up blood for ten consecutive years, but he continued to study hard while lying in bed. By the age of 22, he had read more than 2,000 volumes of ancient books, and by the age of 30, he had read more than 10,000 volumes.
He once said: "Although studying hard is hard work, it is like getting up early in the morning and walking forward in the dark night. It will become brighter and brighter as you go; having fun is fun, but it is like going out in the evening. If you walk at dusk, it will get darker and darker as you go."
He did not understand foreign languages, but because of his profound literary skills, he actually used a method rarely seen in the world to translate books: more than ten people who knew foreign languages ????succeeded. He also translated more than 1,700 famous works from more than a dozen countries including Britain, the United States, France, Russia, and Japan into Chinese, setting a precedent for Chinese translation of foreign literary works and having a great influence. "La Traviata" by French author Alexandre Dumas was the first foreign novel he co-translated with others. Kang Youwei ranked Lin Shu and Yan Fu as the most outstanding translators at that time, and praised them as "Yan Lin is the most talented translator in the world." The story of Chairman Mao’s reading: Chairman Mao has been very busy for decades, but he always finds time, even every second, to read and study. His former residence in Zhongnanhai is simply filled with books. Books are everywhere on the bookshelves in the bedroom, on the office desk, dining table, and coffee table. Except for the place where one person is lying on the bed, all of them are occupied by books.
In order to study, Chairman Mao used all available time. During the few minutes of physical activity before swimming, I sometimes read a few poems by famous people. After swimming up, I didn't bother to rest, so I picked up the book again. He never wastes even a few minutes on the toilet. A reprint of "Selected Works of Zhaoming" by Chunxi of the Song Dynasty and some other books and periodicals were made by using this time to read a little bit today and a little bit tomorrow, intermittently.
When Chairman Mao went out to hold meetings or inspect work, he often wrote in the box. He ignored the vibrations and bumps of the train on the way. He always held a magnifying glass in one hand and pressed the page of the book with the other, reading without stopping. When I go abroad, just like in Beijing, there are books placed on the bed, on the office desk, on the coffee table, and on the dining table, and I read them whenever I have free time.
Although Chairman Mao was seriously ill in his later years, he still continued to read. He re-read a set of hardcover "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" that was brought to Beijing from Yan'an and published before liberation, as well as many other books and periodicals.
Once, Chairman Mao had a fever of over 39 degrees, and the doctor did not allow him to read. He said sadly, I have loved reading all my life, but now you don't let me read, and you tell me to lie here, eating and sleeping all day long. You know how uncomfortable I am! The staff had no choice but to take the books away again. Putting it next to him, he smiled happily.
Lenin’s reading story:
When he started reading, he lost sight of everything around him. Once, several of his sisters played a prank and built an unstable triangular tower behind him with 6 chairs. As long as Lenin moved, the tower would topple. However, Lenin, who was concentrating on reading, did not notice it and did not move at all.
It wasn't until half an hour later, when he finished reading a chapter of the book he was scheduled to read, that he looked up and the wooden tower collapsed...
This story shows that if you want to read the book thoroughly and remember it, you must be highly knowledgeable. Concentrate. The ancients have long said: "There are three ways to read: the heart, the eyes, and the mouth. If the heart is not here, the eyes will not be able to read carefully. The mind is not focused, but it can only read rambles, and it will never be memorized, nor can it be memorized for a long time." Among the three arrivals, the heart is the most anxious. Once the heart has arrived, what’s wrong with the eyes and mouth? ”
Qian Zhongshu’s Reading Story
Qian Zhongshu, Zi Mo Cun, nicknamed Huaiju, once used the pen name Zhongshu Jun. A native of Wuxi, Jiangsu. Scholar, writer, poet. Born into a scholarly family. He was named "Zhongshu" after he caught "Zhou" at the age of one and caught the book. After his uncle passed away, he initiated him into studying. When he was seven or eight years old, he could already devoured "serious" and "irregular" novels collected at home or rented from bookstalls. When I was 14 years old, I read a large number of popular literary magazines such as "Novel World", "Red Rose", "Violet", etc., and browsed them arbitrarily.
After being admitted to the Department of Western Literature at Tsinghua University, I enjoyed reading Chinese and Western books. I never take notes during class, but I often read books unrelated to the course while listening. Later he studied in England and France. After returning to China, he successively served as professor at Tsinghua University, Southwest Associated University, Lantian National Normal College and other universities. In the early 1950s, he served as a researcher at the Institute of Classical Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was indifferent throughout his life and only loved books. He was called a "bookworm". "As long as there are books to read, there is nothing else to do" (Yang Jiang's "Recording Qian Zhongshu and "The Besieged City"). And reading is entirely out of preference, "like a greedy person who eats delicious food: his food intestines are huge, he doesn't choose the fine and coarse, and he eats both sweet and salty things." He especially likes to read "extremely vulgar books", and he eats sophisticated and profound philosophy, aesthetics, literary theory and other high-level sermons "like a child eating snacks, slowly finishing them thickly". Also likes to read poetry. As for heavy reference books such as dictionaries, dictionaries, and encyclopedias, he "not only read them carefully one by one, letter by letter, but also took the trouble to add new entries to the old books when he saw the new edition." Reading also doubles as taking notes. His passion for reading and writing can be seen from his self-titled poems: "The book addict is swarming around the tree, and the magpie cannot find peace in the tree." He is the author of "Guan Zui Bian", "Tan Yi Lu" and "Besieged City". Among them, the first two academic works alone cite more than 4,000 books. "Besieged City" attracted people who read for a while. After the first edition in the 1940s, there was a saying that "if you don't talk about "Besieged City" in conversation, reading poetry and books is in vain." He is also the author of a collection of novels "Man·Beast·Ghost", a collection of essays "Written on the Edge of Life", and an academic work "Collection of Qizu", etc.
Books are as rich as the sea, and they can be found in all department stores. People’s energy cannot be collected at the same time, but they can only get what they want. Therefore, I hope that scholars will pursue it one at a time.
——Su Shi's "A Brief Story of Dongpo's Collected Works"
When reading a text, you must read it in large paragraphs, raise your spirit, stand up your muscles, and don't be sleepy, as if there is a sword behind you. Just one paragraph needs to be penetrated and struck. The beginning will be followed by the tail, and the tail will be struck by the head, and then it will begin. Don't press the book and then forget it.
——Zhu Xi's "Complete Collection of Zhuzi's Language Classes"
There are three aspects of reading, namely, understanding with the heart, understanding with the eyes, and understanding with the mouth. If the mind is not here, the eyes will not be able to read carefully. The mind will not be focused, but it will only read rambles. It will never be memorized, and it will not last long. Among the three understandings, the heart When you are in the most urgent situation, when your heart is ready, your eyes and mouth will not care.
——Zhu Xi's "Xunxue Zhaigui"
Study is more valuable than erudition. It is better to know one thing but arrive at the destination.
——Dai Zhen's "Chronology of Mr. Dai Dongyuan"
It is most useless to rely on reciting what you have read. .
——Zheng Banqiao
3 Modern Chinese Quotes
A person who is omnipotent is really capable of nothing, and an expert who is expert in everything is really nothing. There is nothing to specialize in...
——Tao Fen's "Collected Works of Tao Fen"
Intensify your study, grasp the center, and prefer to be refined rather than miscellaneous, and prefer to be specialized rather than too many.