Who are the young and promising people in our country?

Cao Chong

Cao Chong is smart

Cao Chong has been smart since he was a child. When he was five or six years old, his intelligence was similar to that of an adult. There are allusions in history about Cao Chong calling Xiang.

Cao Chong called the elephant

Once, Sun Quan of Soochow gave Cao Cao an elephant, and Cao Cao was very happy. On the day the elephant was transported to Xuchang, Cao Cao led all civil and military officials and his youngest son Cao Chong to see it together.

None of Cao Cao’s people had ever seen an elephant. This elephant is tall and big. Its legs are as thick as the pillars of the main hall. If someone comes close to compare, they can't reach its belly.

Cao Cao said to everyone: "This elephant is really big, but how much does it weigh? Which one of you can name it?" Hey! How do you call such a big guy? The ministers discussed it one after another.

One said: "The only way to weigh is to build a scale with a big top and a big top."

Another said: "What a big scale we need to build! Besides, it's big." It looks like it's alive, so there's no way to weigh it! I think the only way is to kill it and cut it into pieces." As soon as he finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter. Everyone said: "This method of yours is really stupid! Isn't it a pity to kill the elephant alive just to weigh it?"

The ministers thought of many ways, one by one. None of it works. It's really embarrassing.

At this time, a child walked out of the crowd and said to Cao Cao: "Dad, I have a way to call an elephant."

Cao Cao saw that it was him. The most beloved son, Cao Chong, smiled and said: "You are so young, what can you do? Tell me about it and see if it makes sense."

Cao Chong explained the method. Upon hearing this, Cao Cao applauded repeatedly and ordered his left and right officials to immediately prepare for the weighing of the elephant. Then he said to the ministers: "Let's go to the river to see the elephant weighed!"

The ministers followed Cao Cao to the river. There was a big boat parked in the river. Cao Chong asked someone to take the elephant onto the boat. When the boat was stable, he carved a track on the side of the boat at the water level. Then he asked people to bring the elephant to the shore, and load stones of all sizes onto the boat one by one, so that the boat's hull sank bit by bit. When the ship sank to the point where the lines carved just now were as high as the water surface, Cao Chong asked people to stop loading stones.

The ministers opened their eyes wide and couldn't figure out what was going on at first. When they saw this, they couldn't help but praise: "What a way! What a way!" Now everyone understood that as long as the rocks in the boat were removed, Weigh them all and add up the weights to find out how heavy the elephant is.

Cao Cao was naturally even happier. He narrowed his eyes and looked at his son, and then looked at the ministers triumphantly, as if he was saying in his heart: "You are not as smart as my little son!"

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Fang Zhongyong , was a native of Jinxi, Jiangxi Province during the Northern Song Dynasty. He had been farming for generations for a living. He was extremely talented when he was young, but he was lost to everyone when he became an adult.

Fang Zhongyong, a commoner in Jinxi, has been farming for generations. When Zhongyong was five years old, he had never seen writing tools and suddenly cried for these things. His father was surprised by this and borrowed them from a neighboring family. When someone came to give it to him, he immediately wrote four lines of poetry and wrote his name on it. His father sent it to all the scholars in the township to watch. From then on, when someone asked him to write a poem about something, he could finish it immediately. There was something worth admiring. People in the same county were surprised by him and gradually invited his father to visit him. Some people used money and gifts to ask Zhongyong to write poems. His father thought it was profitable and took Fang Zhongyong around every day. People in the same county did not let him study.

I have heard about this for a long time. During the Ming Dynasty, I followed my father back to his hometown and met Fang Zhongyong at his uncle's house. He was already twelve or thirteen years old. Asking him to write poems was no longer in line with what I had heard before. Seven years later, I came back from Yangzhou and went to my uncle's house. I asked about Fang Zhongyong's situation. My uncle said: "Only when he disappears completely, just like ordinary people." "

Mr. Wang said: Zhongyong's ability to understand and understand is innate. His talent is much higher than that of ordinary talented people. He eventually became an ordinary person because he did not receive the education he acquired.

People like him who are naturally smart and talented have not received acquired education and want to become ordinary people; then, now those people who are not born smart and are ordinary people do not receive acquired education and want to become ordinary people. I'm afraid no one can do it, right?

Wang Rong

Wang Rong was seven years old and tried to play with other children. I saw a lot of plum trees on the roadside with broken branches. The boys raced to get them, but Rong couldn't move. When someone asked about it, he replied: "The tree beside the road has many children, so the plum trees will suffer." Take it, and believe it. ——This story about the bitter plums on the roadside was first recorded in "Shishuoxinyu". This philosophical little story makes us place Wang Rong in the circle of child prodigies without hesitation. If Cao Chong's talent lies in solving problems, then Wang Rong's talent lies in observation and summary.

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Kong Rong

Kong Rong was ten years old and went to Luoyang with his father. At that time, Li Yuanli was famous, and those who came to visit must be talented people or have a good reputation. Or maybe he was a middle-class relative, and the ministers were willing to pass the news. Kong Rong went to the Li Mansion alone and said to the gatekeeper, "I am a relative of the Li Mansion." Asked: "What is the relationship between the king and the servant?" Kong Rong said to him: "In the past, our ancestor Zhongni (Confucius) had a friendship with your ancestor Boyang (Laozi), so the servant and the king were connected in the world. That's good." This statement came from a ten-year-old child, and Li Yuanli and the guests present were all surprised. At that time, Chen Wei, a doctor from Taizhong, came later. When he heard about this, he said: "You are young, and you may not be good when you are older." - If you are smart when you are young, you may not be good when you grow up. This is a very common thing, but it is disapproval of Kong Rong. Unexpectedly, Kong Rong responded: "I missed you when I was young, so I decided to be a pawn."

A post-break technique is used here, which means that Chen Wei is now "big may not be good". Chen Wei was greatly embarrassed by this counterattack and was speechless for a moment. A ten-year-old child can make celebrities speechless with one sentence. Kong Rong's quick thinking is really amazing.

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Sima Guang

Once, he was playing in the backyard with his friends. There was a large water tank in the yard. A child climbed up to play on the edge of the tank and accidentally fell into the tank factory. The water in the tank was so big that the child was almost submerged. When the other children saw that something had happened, they were so frightened that they cried and shouted and ran outside to ask adults for help. However, Sima Guang was so anxious that he picked up a big stone from the ground and threw it at the water tank. "Bang!" The water tank broke and the water in the tank flowed out. The child who was drowned in the water was also saved. The little Sima Guang is calm and collected in situations, and he has always looked like a little adult since he was a child. This is the story of "Sima Guang smashed the vat" that has been passed down to this day. This accidental incident made little Sima Guang famous. Someone in Tokyo and Luoyang painted the incident into a picture and spread it widely.

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Gan Luo Gan Luo drove to see Zhang Tang and said: "Back then, Lord Wu'an Bai Qi was expelled by Ying Hou because he disobeyed Ying Hou Fan Ju's order to attack Zhao. Leave Xianyang and die in Duyou. Now Wenxinhou has much more power than Yinghou. If you disobey his order, it seems that your death is not far away!" Zhang Tang obediently agreed to go to Yan State.

Gan Luo also obtained Lu Buwei's consent and went to Zhao to lobby in accordance with Qin's intention to expand Hejian County. In response to King Zhao's worry that the Qin-Yan alliance would be unfavorable to Zhao, he made great efforts to Gongxin said: "The alliance between Qin and Yan is nothing more than an attempt to occupy Zhao's land between the rivers. If you cede the five cities in the river to Qin, I can go back and persuade the King of Qin to cancel Zhang Tang's mission and sever the alliance with Yan. . When you attack Yan State, Qin State will never interfere, and Zhao State will gain more than just five cities!" King Zhao was overjoyed and hurriedly handed over the maps and household registrations of the five cities in Hejian. Gan Luo returned with a full load, and the Qin State captured the land between the rivers without spending a single soldier. The King of Qin made the 12-year-old Gan Luo a minister and rewarded him with the land that had been granted to Gan Mao. Since the official ranks of the prime minister and the minister were almost the same at that time, the people deduced that Gan Luo became prime minister at the age of twelve. There have indeed been many child prodigies in Chinese history: Xiang Luo, who was not defeated by Confucius when he was 7 years old, defeated Confucius and became a Confucius teacher. In the Qin Dynasty, Gan Luo made great achievements at the age of 12 and was worshiped as a minister by the King of Qin.

Dongfang Shuo in the Han Dynasty was able to recite "History of Wei" secretly at the age of two. Cao Zhi, Tao Yuanming, Yan Zhitui, etc. were all well-read at an early age. Liu Xiaochuo, a writer in the Southern Dynasties, was able to write at the age of six, Yinkeng could recite a thousand poems and poems a day at the age of four, and Xu Ling was able to write at the age of seven and was well versed in classics and history. Among the four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty, Lu Zhaoli "read the rituals and heard the poems" when he was young. King Luo Bin wrote the poem "Ode to the Goose" that has been passed down through the ages when he was six years old. Wang Bo wrote well-conceived articles at the age of 5, which often shocked everyone. At the age of 8, he wrote "Notes on Flaws in Han Shu". Yang Jiong was recognized as a child prodigy at the age of 9, and was later awarded the title of School Scholar. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Li Dubai, Wang Wei, Li He, etc. are even more impressive to today's people. When Wang Wei was young, he was proficient in music, calligraphy and painting, and was good at prose. The poem "Be prepared to miss your loved ones during festive seasons" written when he was young has been read to this day. Li Bai received Chinese and Turkic languages ????from an early age. He could recite "Liujia" (Taoist classics) at the age of 5, and had read the books of hundreds of schools of thought by the age of 10. Du Fu chanted the famous poem "Phoenix" when he was 7 years old. Bai Juyi could write poems at the age of five or six and discern rhymes at the age of nine. Han Yu received an education at a very young age. He could speak astonishingly at the age of 4 and could read "The Book of Songs", "Mencius", "Guoyu", "Historical Records", etc. at the age of 6. Li He started writing poetry when he was five or six years old. When he was 7 years old, he wrote Yuefu poems that were widely copied in the capital and attracted great praise from Han Yu and others. Gu Yanwu developed an amazing reading habit when he was young, and he could read ten lines at a time. When he was young, he participated in Fushe and opposed the eunuchs and powerful people. He also put forward the famous idea that "everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world."

In the late Qing Dynasty, Kang Youwei began to read pictures and calligraphy at the age of 3. He began to read books such as "The Analects of Confucius" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" at the age of 4. At the age of 5, he first showed his ambition to "Fish into Dragon" with "Liu Cheng Catkin". The title of 12-year-old Bo Prodigy.

Liang Qichao read Sizishu at the age of four or five, and completed the Brief History of China and the Five Classics at the age of six. He was a scholar at the age of eleven and passed the imperial examination at the age of sixteen. At the age of 12, he entered Guangzhou Xuehaitang (the highest educational institution in the area at the time).

Hu Shi entered school at the age of 3. He could read 1,000 words before entering school. His mother paid a lot of money to his teacher and used extraordinary methods to teach him. He quickly read through the Confucian classics. He left his hometown to study in Shanghai at the age of 12, and was promoted to four levels as soon as he entered school. At the age of 19, he went to the United States to study and received his doctorate at the age of 26. Mao Yisheng was admitted to Jiangnan Secondary Commercial School at the age of 10. At the age of 15, he was admitted to Tangshan Road and Mine School, and at the age of 23, he became the first doctor of engineering in the college. After returning to China, he became the youngest professor at the age of 25. But how many have achieved great achievements?