What are some folk tales from Shandong?

There was a famous scholar who never went to school as a child, and succeeded entirely on his own, except for a short-term remedial course he took by chance when he went to Japan as a teenager.

But when he was not famous in his early days, no matter how he introduced himself or wrote his curriculum vitae, he always tried to hide the fact that he had never been to a formal school, and exaggerated the short-term cram school in Japan as a formal school, emphasizing that most of his own learning came from there.

Later, when he became famous and his true talent was recognized by the world, he never mentioned the Japanese past again, but confessed that he had never been to a formal school, not even an elementary school. Because he knows, people at this time not only will not be because of the low education and contempt for him, but on the contrary, his self-education, double respect.

There is a saying in northern China, "Buns have meat, not on the folds", meaning that the real content of the people, do not have to manifest on the outside, but the indisputable fact is: often only meat buns, can not care about the folds; only with the strength of the people, can not care about the attack.

When we can not do "adults do not care about the small man" and "rich but not proud", the real reason, often because we are not "adults" and not enough "Rich". We are not lacking that cultivation, but less that strength and have the strength after the calm.