Goushi

If it is a constant, why do you sleep at night and get up in Class Five? Is the most useless. It means one day of violence and ten days of cold. In ancient times, there were five classes in one night, each class lasted about 2 hours. Exposure (pù): exposure to the sun. Cold: frozen. If you really have perseverance, why do you sleep in the middle of the night and get up before dawn? The worst thing is to freeze for ten days in the sun. It means that persistence is the most important thing in doing things, and you can't be hot and cold.

Author: Hu Ming dynasty

Source: Alliance for Self-encouragement.

Original text:

If there is a constant, why go to bed at night and get up at five?

The most useless thing is to be exposed to the sun for ten days.

Interpretation: If you have perseverance, why get up early and get greedy every day; The worst thing is to do it for a day, rest for ten days, and have only three minutes of heat. Highlight the importance of perseverance from both positive and negative aspects, and encourage people to persevere.

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Chairman Hua Mao Hu Yong Juren Qi Lian Mian

Mao Zedong once changed this couplet to encourage himself, and changed it to "Why do you have to sleep at night?" The most useless thing is to be frozen for ten days a day. "He is a model of persistent study and persistent research. Regular reading emphasizes the accumulation of knowledge, from quantitative change to qualitative change, which can be described as accumulation.

Mao Zedong not only insisted on individual self-study, but also paid attention to collective learning. For major issues, he led the public to "attack them in groups." This is the way to mobilize and organize everyone to learn. During the rectification movement in Yan 'an, Mao Zedong proposed to set up a central study group, personally taking the lead, and called senior cadres from all over the country to study in Yan 'an in isolation, so as to create a learning atmosphere and set off a reading craze.

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