Stories about diligent study

Shi Yang rubbed his feet and read at night

Shi Yang, the famous worker leader of the February 7th strike, had a poor family when he was young and could not afford lamp oil. There is an ancient temple called Longxingguan in the village. There is an ever-burning lantern in the temple, and he studies in the ancient temple. Winter is cold and my feet feel uncomfortable with cold. At first, he stood up and stamped his feet from time to time. Later, he felt that it was a waste of time, so he whittled a round wooden stick and placed it under his feet. .

Lu Xun sold medals

When Lu Xun was studying at the Jiangnan Naval Academy in Nanjing, the school awarded him a gold medal because of his excellent test scores. He did not wear the medal as a certificate to show off himself. Instead, he sold it on Gulou Street and bought back a few beloved books and a bunch of red peppers. Whenever he was reading and reading, when it was late at night and the weather was cold and he felt sleepy, he would pick off a chili pepper, break it into several pieces, put it in his mouth and chew it until he sweated on his forehead, shed tears in his eyes, and "sighed" in his mouth. , my whole body felt warm, and my sleepiness disappeared, so I picked up the book and read it again.

Ba Jin recalls the books he once read

The famous writer Ba Jin’s reading method is very strange because he did it without books. It is indeed a wonder in the world to study without books. What is going on? Ba Jin said: "The second time I was hospitalized, I took a nap for less than an hour every day, so I got out of bed and sat on the small sofa, waiting for the nurse to come. I came to take my temperature at 1 o'clock. I sat motionless, but my mind refused to rest. It seemed that it wanted to remember some books and works I had read in the past. Before the decline, keep some good things." It turns out that his way of reading is to sit quietly and recall the books he has read. ?

Wang Yanan tied to a pillar and reading

Wang Yanan, my country's famous Marxist economist and the earliest Chinese translator of "Das Kapital", took a boat to Europe in 1933. The passenger ship was sailing to the Red Sea when suddenly huge waves rolled into the sky and the ship was rocking so hard that people could not stand still. At this time, Wang Yanan, who was wearing glasses and holding a book in his hand, walked into the restaurant and begged the waiter: "Please tie me to this pillar!" The waiter thought he was afraid that he would be thrown into the sea by the waves. Go and tie Wang Yanan firmly to the pillar according to his words. After being tied up, Wang Yanan opened the book and read it attentively. When the foreigners on the boat saw it, they all looked at him in amazement and praised him repeatedly: "Ah! The Chinese are so amazing!"

Huang Kan mistakenly took ink as a side dish

In 1915, the famous scholar Huang Kan lectured on Chinese studies at Peking University. He lived in the Datong Apartment in Baimiao Hutong, Beijing, and devoted himself to studying "Chinese Studies" all day long. Sometimes he would not leave the study room to eat. He prepared steamed buns, chili, soy sauce and other condiments and placed them on his desk. When he was hungry, he would nibble on the steamed buns while eating. While reading, I stopped eating, and when I saw the wonderful thing, I shouted: "It's wonderful!" Once, I was so fascinated by reading that I actually put the steamed bun into the ink stone and the cinnabar box. , a friend came to visit and laughed heartily. He didn’t know why he was laughing at him.

Cao Yu was really studying and pretending to take a bath

During the Anti-Japanese War, Cao Yu taught full-time at the National Drama Theater in Jiang'an, Sichuan. One summer, Cao Yu's family prepared a bathtub and hot water and asked him to take a bath. At this time, Cao Yu was reading a book and couldn't put it down. He pushed it again and again. Finally, under repeated urging from his family, he took a towel in one hand and another Take the book and walk into the inner room. An hour passed, but no one came out. The sound of water could be heard from time to time in the room. Another hour passed, and the situation remained the same. Cao Yu's family members were suddenly confused. When they opened the door and took a look, they found that Cao Yu was sitting in the bathtub, reading a book in one hand and patting the water intentionally or unintentionally with a towel in the other hand.

Zhang Yao worshiped his wife as his teacher

During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a military attache named Zhang Yao. Because of his meritorious service in hard battles, he was promoted to the post of Chief Envoy of Henan. He had lost school since he was a child and was uneducated. He was often discriminated against by courtiers. The imperial envoy Liu Yunan said that he was "illiterate", so he was appointed as the chief soldier. From then on, Zhang Yao determined to study hard so that he could be good at literature and martial arts. Zhang Yao thought that his wife was very educated, so he returned home and asked his wife to teach him how to read. The wife said: It is okay to want to teach, but there is one condition, that is, you must worship the teacher and learn respectfully.

Zhang Yao fully agreed, immediately put on his court clothes, asked his wife to sit in front of Confucius' memorial tablet, and bowed to her three times and kowtowed nine times. From then on, his wife taught him how to read classics and history in his spare time. Whenever his wife acted like a teacher, he would bow down and listen to the instructions without daring to be disrespectful. At the same time, he also asked someone to carve an "illiterate" seal and often wore it on his body as a warning. A few years later, Zhang Yao finally became a very knowledgeable person. Later, when he was the governor of Shandong, someone again said that he was "illiterate." He wrote to the emperor for an interview. The interview results surprised the emperor and many ministers. When Zhang Yao took office in Shandong, he built river embankments, repaired roads, opened factories, refined manufacturing, and did many things that benefited the country and the people. Because he was diligent and studious, the emperor posthumously named him "Qinguo" after his death.

Cut the wall to steal the light

During the Western Han Dynasty, there was a farmer's child named Kuang Heng. He wanted to study very much when he was a child, but because his family was poor, he had no money to go to school. Later, he learned to read from a relative and gained the ability to read.

Kuang Heng couldn't afford books, so he had to borrow books to read. At that time, books were very valuable, and people who owned them were not willing to lend them to others easily. Kuang Heng worked part-time for wealthy people during the busy farming season. He didn't pay any wages and only asked people to lend him books to read.

After a few years, Kuang Heng grew up and became the main labor force in the family. He worked in the fields all day long, and only had time to read a little while taking a break at noon, so it often took ten and a half days to finish a book. Kuang Heng was very anxious and thought to himself: I plant crops during the day and don’t have time to read. I can use more time to read at night. But Kuang Heng’s family was very poor and couldn’t buy oil for lighting lamps. What should he do?

One night, Kuang Heng was lying on the bed and reciting the books he had read during the day. Carrying it on my back, I suddenly saw a ray of light coming from the east wall. He stood up in a hurry, walked to the wall and took a look, ah! It turned out that what came through the cracks in the wall was the neighbor's light. So Kuang Heng thought of a way: he took a knife and dug a larger gap in the wall. In this way, the light that came through was also greater, so he leaned against the light that came through and read a book.

Kuang Heng studied hard in this way and later became a very knowledgeable person.

yingxuenang (náng) firefly

During the Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Sun Kang who was very studious. His family was too poor to buy lamp oil and couldn't study at night, so he tried his best to study hard. On winter nights, he often read outdoors by the light of the snow, regardless of the cold weather.

At that time, there was another person named Che Yin (yin), who, like Sun Kang, had no money to buy lamp oil. On summer nights, he caught many fireflies, put them in gauze bags, illuminated them with fluorescent lights, and studied day and night.

Negative salary (xīn) Hanging angle

During the Han Dynasty, Zhu Maichen’s family was very poor when he was a child. In order to maintain his livelihood, he had to go to the mountains to cut firewood every day and had no time to study. But he was eager to learn and often read while walking with firewood on his back.

In the Sui Dynasty, there was a man named Li Mi who herded cattle for others when he was a child. Every day when he went out, he would take a few books and hang them on the horns of the cow. While the cow was grazing, he would sit on the grass and read attentively.