List examples in life and explain in detail that people should not be judged by their appearance.

1. Zuo Si

Zuo Si is ugly. According to "Shishuo Xinyu", he was once spit on because of his appearance. However, Zuo Si has excellent literary talent, not only A famous writer in the Western Jin Dynasty, he also wrote "Sandu Fu" which is as famous as Ban Gu's "Liangdu Fu" and Zhang Heng's "Erjing Fu". According to the "Book of Jin" records, his "Sandu Fu" had just come out. Wealthy families in Luoyang competed to pass on copies, and for a time "paper in Luoyang was expensive".

2. Tantai Mieming sought knowledge and gave lectures

Tantai Mieming became a disciple of Confucius. Confucius saw that he was ugly and thought he did not have much talent, so he was unwilling to accept him as his disciple. . Because it hindered his own idea of ??"teaching without discrimination", he reluctantly accepted him as a disciple. Later, he discovered that Tantai Mieming had noble moral character and correct academic style, so he said with emotion: "Judge a person by his appearance, and you will lose his talent."

Tantai Mieming listened to Confucius's teachings, studied hard, and strengthened his self-cultivation, and finally He achieved success in his studies and became one of the famous scholars at that time. When he went to the state of Wu to give lectures, his disciples numbered 300, making him a generation of famous teachers famous all over the country.

3. Wang Liang died for his country

Wang Liang was the second-ranked scholar in the second year of Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty and was awarded the Imperial Academy's Compilation Award. During the imperial examination, Wang Liang was originally the best, but Emperor Jianwen thought he was ugly, so he selected the handsome Hu Guang as the number one scholar, while Wang Liang could only be ranked second.

When Wang Liang first heard that the "Jingnan" army was about to start, he became depressed every day and had trouble sleeping and eating. In the fourth year of Jianwen, when King Yan's army approached the capital, Wang Liang died for his country, while Hu Guang joined Emperor Yongle and became a senior official. Wang Liang is indeed talented and proficient in rhyme. He once composed "One Hundred Plum Blossom Poems" based on the rhyme of "God, Truth, Humanity, Dust, and Spring", which can be called a treasure among plum blossom poems.

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Zuo Si's "Sandu Fu" even caused the "Luoyang paper expensiveness" situation that caused a headache for the government. This poem took Zuo Si nearly ten years of hard work. For this purpose, he visited experts and went to Shu, Wu, and Wei for field investigations. He continued to hang paper and pens at home in case he was inspired to write at any time. Next, it can be said that I read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles.

Just like a foreign fable says: If you spend ten years painting a painting, you can sell it in one day, but if you spend one day painting a painting, you may not be able to sell it in ten years. Zuo Si knew this truth well. No wonder this poem became popular all over the country once it was published. From then on, the ugly writer finally became famous and proud.

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