What are some examples of diligence?

Examples of diligence include:

1. Cutting through walls to steal light

In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a great scholar named Kuang Heng. He liked reading very much when he was a child, but his family was very poor and couldn't afford candles, so he couldn't read at night. He often worried about this. That night, Kuang Heng accidentally discovered that there seemed to be some light on the wall of his home. When he got up and looked, it turned out that the wall was cracked, and the neighbor's candlelight shone through the crack.

After watching it, Kuang Heng immediately came up with a way. He found a chisel and made a small hole in the crack in the wall. Immediately, a candlelight came over, and Kuang Heng read the book seriously according to this candlelight. Every night from now on, Kuang Heng would lean against the wall and read by the neighbor's candlelight. Because he was diligent and studious since childhood, Kuang Heng later became a knowledgeable Confucian scholar.

2. Dong Zhongshu did not visit the garden for three years

Dong Zhongshu concentrated on his studies and worked tirelessly. Although there was a garden behind his study, he concentrated on reading and studying and did not visit the garden for three years. Dong Zhongshu was so dedicated to studying knowledge that he became a famous thinker in the Western Han Dynasty.

3. Guan Ning sat separately

In the Han Dynasty, Guan Ning and Hua Xin were classmates and friends. One day, while they were studying at the same table, a dignitary passed by in a car. Guan Ning was not disturbed and could study as usual, while Hua Xin went out to watch and was filled with envy. Guan Ning saw that Hua Xin and he were not really like-minded friends, so he sat separately.

Guan Ning finally succeeded in his career! Qu Yuan studied hard in the cave. When Qu Yuan was a child, he ignored the objections of his elders and hid in a cave to read the Book of Songs secretly no matter it was windy, rainy or freezing. After three full years, he read 305 chapters of the Book of Songs, absorbed rich nutrition from these folk songs, and finally became a great poet.

4. Lu Xun chewed peppers to ward off the cold

Mr. Lu Xun studied hard since he was a child. When he was a teenager, he studied at Jiangnan Naval Academy. He had excellent grades in the first semester and was awarded a gold medal by the school. He immediately took it to the streets of Nanjing's Drum Tower and sold it, then bought a few books and a bunch of red peppers.

Whenever it was cold at night and he couldn't bear to read at night, he would pick off a chili pepper, put it in his mouth and chew it, which made him sweat on his forehead. He used this method to keep away the cold and insist on studying. As a result of studying hard, he finally became a famous litterateur in our country.

5. Hou Baolin copying books

Hou Baolin, the master of cross talk language, only went to elementary school for three years. Because of his diligence and studious, his artistic level reached the level of proficiency and he became a famous language expert. Once, in order to buy a Ming Dynasty joke book "Jian Lang" that he wanted to buy, he visited all the used bookstalls in Beijing but failed.

Later, he learned that the Beijing Library had this book and decided to copy it back. It was winter, and he braved the strong wind and heavy snow and ran to the library for eighteen days to copy books. Finally, he copied a book with more than 100,000 words.