Therefore, a gentleman respects the beginning and is cautious to the end, which is the way of a gentleman and the text of courtesy and righteousness. -"Xun Zi Li Lun"

Remember the story of "selling oil Weng" in junior high school textbooks? In real life, everyone knows that practice makes perfect. When you do something, you may not do it well the first time or the second time, but you will master the skills and successfully complete the task after several attempts. This is the charm that practice makes perfect.

However, the last sentence of "Oil Man" is thought-provoking. In the textbook, this sentence was even deleted by the editor. What kind of sentence can cause such a big response in the cultural circle? Why should it be deleted from the textbook?

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I believe the teacher will always teach us again and again in the last lesson of "Oil Man". To be a diligent person who doesn't give up easily, we must believe that many problems can always be solved in the end. As long as you work hard enough and practice repeatedly, it will become easier and easier in the end, and you will master many convenient ways to deal with it. This is the true meaning of practice makes perfect. Generally speaking, this text brings students positive thinking.

It is worth noting that the last sentence of this article is "What is the difference between this and Zhuang Sheng's so-called solution to the problem?" But it runs counter to the positive thoughts of the whole article.

It turns out that the last sentence of this article is Ouyang Xiu's self-understanding. When Ouyang Xiu was writing, he added his own evaluation and understanding of this fable, which was not in the original manuscript. What he means is that practice makes perfect. What's the difference between Zhuangzi's story about skillful hands and building cars?

Skilled workers and turners come from two allusions: skilled workers and turners. My Skilled Cow Solution tells the story of a skilled cow killer. He can separate beef from bovine bones without blowing off dust, and the fascia attached to the bovine bones can also be treated cleanly. Even the king was surprised by his skillful skills, and praised the cow killer named "My Skilled Cow" many times.

"Lunping" is about a carpenter who suspects that the sage book read by Qi Henggong is just the dross left by his ancestors. He believes that the real truth is not only words, but also words. Just like he has been working as a wheel for so many years, the skills he has mastered cannot be passed on to future generations in words, even his own son, because this is the experience left to him by time, and this experience is crossing.

It turns out that the moral of these two allusions, like the "oil man", is to promote the truth that practice makes perfect. It is understandable to talk together, but Ouyang Xiu's rhetorical tone makes the meaning of this sentence very different.

At first glance, this sentence is derogatory. What he means is that practice makes perfect is nothing more than marking time. If we want to succeed, we must rely on change and innovation.

If you look at the full text of his views, it is obvious that Ouyang Xiu criticized the truth that practice makes perfect in this fable. From this point of view, the first half of the whole article advocates how correct practice makes perfection, but at the end of the article, ironically, practice makes perfection, just sticking to the rules.

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Let's not talk about whether Ouyang Xiu's sentence is correct for the time being, but for students who are still teenagers, this sentence is undoubtedly inappropriate in textbooks.

As we all know, children are always sensitive and suspicious, and this stage is one of the most important periods in their lives, which is very important for cultivating their outlook on life and values in the future. At this stage, they have a little knowledge of everything, and their thoughts are as clean and pure as newborn babies, but their minds are very immature and they can't distinguish right from wrong independently. It is precisely because of this that they are easily disturbed by external things and thus go to the point of no return.

Therefore, if Ouyang Xiu's sentence is added to the material, the theme of the whole article will become chaotic and negative. Perhaps there is nothing wrong with Ouyang Xiu's original intention, but it is really inappropriate to put it in the middle school students' materials. It is easy to lead students astray, from which we can also see the rigorous attitude of textbook writers towards their work.

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In any case, the original intention of the article "The Oil Man" is good. Although not everything will have a good result after hard work, if you don't work hard, you are not even qualified to expect success. As the saying goes: "I have nothing else, I am familiar with my hands", which is also a persistent truth passed on to the world. When teenagers read this text, with the correct guidance of the teacher, they can successfully instill a positive thought of "nothing is difficult in the world, I am afraid that there is a will"!