1. Erythrina suspensa
The story of the hanging beam happened when a sage named Sun Jing from the State of Chu went to Luoyang to study. In order to study hard and be afraid of being disturbed by sleep, he tied his hair and hung it on the beam. If he was tired of reading, closed his eyes and lowered his head, the hair hanging on the beam would wake up with pain when he pulled it, and then he would succeed in hard study.
The story of stabbing the thigh happened to Su Qin in the Warring States Period. He learned the art of combining vertical and horizontal skills from Guiguzi. After he learned it, he went to the State of Qin to lobby and was not adopted. He had to go home after running out of travel expenses, but his family ignored him. He was ashamed and sad, so he worked hard. When he was tired of reading, he dozed off. He poked an awl on his leg to get rid of his drowsiness and continued to study hard. Later, when he set out to lobby the princes, he was all successful, and he was wearing the seal of the six countries, which was very powerful.
2. Nang Ying Reading
Che Yin, a native of Nanping in the Jin Dynasty, loved to read when he was young and was tireless in learning. However, his family was poor, so he had no money to buy oil and light the lamps. After a long time, Che Yin feels that if he goes on for a long time, he will waste countless precious time. He must find a way to solve it. One night, when he saw a group of fireflies flying around, he immediately thought that if he caught a dozen fireflies and put them in a bag, he could use the light they emit to read books? Since then, he has read by the light of fireflies every night, sometimes even seeing the dawn.
3. Reading by reflecting snow
In ancient times, there was a scholar named Sun Kang who, because of his poor family, often read in the snow on winter nights with the help of snow light. Reading with the Month There was a scholar named Jiang Bi in the Southern Qi Dynasty. He had to work during the day and only had time to study at night. But the poor could not afford to buy lights, so he had to study at night in the moonlight. Whenever he read that the moonlight was slanting to the west, he would take a ladder and put it under the foot of the wall. He would stand on the ladder and read. The moonlight gradually fell, and he would climb up to the roof step by step. Sometimes, when he is tired of reading, he falls down from the ladder carelessly. He hurries to get up without brushing off the soil on his body, and then climbs onto the ladder to continue reading.
4. To teach a child to draw silvergrass
During the Northern Song Dynasty, there was an outstanding writer and historian called Ouyang Xiu. The article is well written and has made great achievements in literature. When he was four years old, his father died and life at home was very difficult. His mother wanted his son to study, but where could he afford to go to school? On second thoughts, she decided to teach her son. She could not afford to buy a pen and paper, so she took the reed straw to write on the ground instead of a pen and paper to teach her son to read. Ouyang Xiu, under his mother's instruction, wrote on the ground with the reed straw, and finally learned something. This is the story of the famous "drawing grass to teach children" in history.
5. Chisel the wall to steal light
Kuang Heng in the Yuan Dynasty of the Han Dynasty liked reading when he was young. But my family is so poor that I can't even eat enough. How can I afford to go to school? He had to work in the daytime and study by himself at night. What should I do if I have no money to buy lamp oil? Kuang Heng did not give in to the difficulties, and came up with a way: cut a small hole in the wall, read and study by the weak light from the neighbor's house. He worked hard, learned a lot of knowledge, and later became a prime minister.