A hole was drilled in the wall to get light from the neighbor's house.

A hole was drilled in the wall to get light from the neighbor's house.

In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a great scholar named Kuang Heng. He loved reading when he was a child, but his family was too poor to buy candles, so he couldn't read at night. He often worries about it. That night, Kuang Heng was surprised to find that there seemed to be some lights on his own wall. When he got up, he saw the wall cracked and the neighbor's candle was sticking out of the crack. Kuang Heng saw this and immediately came up with a solution. He found a chisel and made a small hole in the crack in the wall. Immediately, a candlelight rose, and Kuang Heng read the book carefully under this candlelight. From then on, every night, Kuang Heng would lean against the wall and read by the neighbor's candlelight. He has been studious since he was a child. Later, Kuang Heng became a learned Confucian scholar.