Su Qin in the Warring States period, although ambitious, went to many places because of his shallow knowledge, and was not reused in the end. Later, he made up his mind to study hard Sometimes I'm really tired, and when I'm ready to take a nap, I prick my thigh with an awl, and my blood is bleeding.
He used this special method of "stabbing stocks" to drive away drowsiness, cheer up and keep on studying. Huang Tian pays off, and later he finally became a famous politician.
2. Dig the wall and steal the light
Kuang Heng is diligent and studious, but there are no candles at home. There are candles next door, but the light can't reach his house. Therefore, Kuang Heng dug a hole in the wall to attract the light from his neighbors, so that it could be read in a book. There is a big family in the county, which is famous for its literary knowledge, but it is rich and has many books. Kuang Heng went to his house as an employee, but he didn't want to be paid.
The host was surprised and asked him why. He said, "I hope to read all the books of the host family." Hearing this, the master sighed deeply, so he lent Kuang Heng a book (to help Kuang Heng read it). So Kuang Heng became a great scholar.
3. Song Lian
Song Lian liked reading when he was a child, but his family was poor and he had no money to buy books, so he had to borrow them from others. Every time he borrows a book, he agrees on a deadline, returns it on time, and never breaks the contract. People are willing to lend them to him. Once he borrowed a book, and the more he read it, the more he couldn't put it down, so he decided to copy it. But the deadline for returning the book was coming, so he had to copy the book overnight.
4, Confucius Wei compiled "Three Musts"
Books in the Spring and Autumn Period mainly used bamboo as bamboo slips to write, ranging from a few crosses to more than eight or nine characters. A book needs a lot of bamboo slips, which are connected in sequence with strong ropes and the like, and then a book is the last one, which is very convenient to read.
Usually, those woven with silk thread are called "silk weaving", those woven with hemp rope are called "rope weaving" and those woven with cooked cowhide rope are called "Wei weaving", among which the cooked cowhide rope is the strongest. A book as heavy as Zhouyi is of course made up of many bamboo slips woven together with cooked cowhide ropes.
Confucius spent a lot of energy reading the Book of Changes again and again, adding a lot of notes. I don't know how many times he opened it. It is generally believed that Confucius could read and write in this way, and the cowhide belt of serial bamboo slips was worn off several times and had to be replaced with new ones for repeated use. This is a metaphor for studying hard.
Even after reading this, Confucius said, "If I live a few more years, I can fully grasp the literary quality of Zhouyi."
5. Isn't Sima Guang addicted to pillows?
Sima Guang, an ancient China writer, used a log as a pillow to wake himself up and continue writing, and named it "Police Pillow". Mayakovski, a famous Russian poet, often used a large piece of firewood as a pillow to prevent himself from sleeping too long. Inventor Edison often stays up late to work. He was really sleepy, so he put the books on the table as pillows. ?