1. Ouyang Xiu's father died when he was four years old, and his family was so poor that they had no money to pay for his education. Mrs. Ouyang Xiu taught him how to write by writing on the sand with reed stalks, and she also taught him to recite many chapters of the ancients. By the time he was older, there were no books to read at home, so he went to the nearest reader's house to borrow a book to read, and sometimes proceeded to copy it. In this way, night and day, sleep and food, just committed to reading, from childhood to write poems, fugue text, the pen on the level of adults as high.
2, after the Han Nanyang governor Yang Xu love to eat fresh fish, a government minister heard, sent two big carp, Yang Xu refused to accept. But the government minister of the old world, without saying a word away, sheep continued to carp hanging in front of the door, has been a warning to those who come to the gift of people. This is why people called Yang Xu as "Hanging Fish Taishou".
3, Edison from a lowly background, living in poverty, his "education" is only three months of his life on the elementary school, the teacher because he was always odd questions asked by the mouth, even when his mother's face, said he was a fool, the future will not have any success. Although Edison did not receive a good school education, but with personal struggle and extraordinary talent, self-confidence, self-improvement, self-reliance to achieve great success.
He was self-educated, with perseverance, rare enthusiasm and energy from the millions of failures to stand up, overcoming countless difficulties, became an American inventor, entrepreneur. He invented the automatic telegraph, the electric motor, the phonograph; he experimented and improved the electric light (incandescent lamp) and the telephone. In his life, on average, every 15 days there is a new invention, he is therefore known as the "king of invention".
4. After graduating from high school, Hua Luogeng was forced to drop out of school because he couldn't afford the tuition. Returning to his hometown, one side to help his father work, while continuing to read tenaciously to learn. Soon, he was infected with typhoid fever and became critically ill. He stayed in bed for half a year, and when he recovered, he was left with a lifelong disability - the joints of his left leg were deformed and he was crippled. At that time, he was only 19 years old.
In that lost, confused, near-desperate days, he remembered Sun Bin, who wrote the art of war behind his legs. Young Hua Luogeng is so tenacious and fate struggle. During the day, he dragged his sick legs, endured the intense pain in the joints, working on crutches upside down, and at night, he studied himself under the oil lamp until late at night.
In 1930, his paper was published in the journal Science, which alarmed Professor Xiong Qinglai, head of the mathematics department at Tsinghua University. Later, Tsinghua University hired Hua Luogeng as an assistant. In the famous Tsinghua Park, Hua Luogeng worked as an assistant while listening to the math department, and spent four years learning English, German and French, and published ten papers. By the time he was 25, he was already a young scholar of international renown...?
5. In the fall of 405 A.D., Tao Yuanming came to Pengze, not far from his hometown, to be the county magistrate in order to support his family. In the winter of that year, the governor of the county sent a postman to inspect Pengze County. The postman was a man of very low rank, but he had some power, and he could speak in front of the governor at least by his mouth. The inspector was a vulgar and arrogant man, and as soon as he arrived at Pengze's hostel, he sent a county official to call the magistrate to meet him.
Tao Yuanming, who usually scorns fame and wealth, and refuses to follow the trend, despised this kind of person who gives orders in the name of his superiors, but he had to go to see him, so he immediately set off. Unexpectedly, the county official stopped Tao Yuanming and said, "My lord, to see the governor and postman should wear official clothes, and tied on a big belt, otherwise it is out of order, the governor and postman will take advantage of the opportunity to make a big fuss, it will be unfavorable to your lord!"
This time, Tao Yuanming could no longer endure. He let out a long sigh and said, "I can't bend my back to the countryside villain for five buckets of rice!" Said, simply took out the official seal, sealed it, and immediately wrote a letter of resignation, and then left Pengze, who had only been a county magistrate for more than eighty days.
Tao Yuanming said, "I can't do this for the sake of the countryside.
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