What are the inspirational stories of ancient Chinese celebrities?

1. Sima Guang's Inspirational Police Pillow Sima Guang was a playful and sleepy child, for which he was often chastised by his teacher and ridiculed by his peers. Under his teacher's sincere teaching, he was determined to change his bad habit of being sleepy, and in order to get up early, he drank a full stomach of water before he went to bed, and the result was that he didn't get suffocated in the morning, but he peed in bed. bed board, naturally woke up, from then on he got up early every day to read, perseverance, and finally became a learned, wrote the "Ziji Tongjian" of the great man of letters.

2, heard the chicken dance There is a general in the Jin Dynasty, named Zu Ti. He was a respected man for his skill, loyalty and patriotism. However, Zu Ti was a naughty child. He didn't like studying and practicing martial arts, but just liked to play around all day long. When Zu Ti grew up, he saw that the country was in decline, and the people were in a very hard time due to years of war. However, he was too weak and uneducated to do anything to help. In order to change the status quo of the country, Zu Ti began to study hard and learn seriously, and he learned a wealth of knowledge from the books, and his learning improved greatly. Zu Ti also often went to Luoyang, the capital of the time, to seek advice from learned people. People who knew him said, "Zu Ti will be a pillar of the country in the future." When Zu Ti was 24 years old, he was recommended to become an official, but he felt that he was not learned enough, so he did not say yes, but continued to study hard. Zu Ti had a good friend named Liu Kun. Whenever the two of them talked about state affairs together, they would talk about it late without realizing it, and rested on the same bed. One night in the middle of the night, Zu Ti heard a rooster crowing in his sleep, so he got up and said to Liu Kun, "The rooster is calling us to get up, how about practicing sword now?" Liu Kun readily agreed. From then on, Zu Ti and Liu Kun agreed to get up every day when they heard the rooster crowing to practice. Regardless of the wind and rain, no matter how hot or cold it was, they never stopped practicing. After a long period of hard practice, both Zu Ti and Liu Kun became both good writers and capable of leading soldiers to victory.

3, da Vinci painting eggs European Renaissance famous painter da Vinci, a hobby painting since childhood. His father sent him to Florence, a famous city in Italy at that time, to worship the famous painter Froggio as his teacher. The teacher asked him to start with drawing eggs. He drew one egg after another for more than ten days. Seeing that he was a little impatient, the teacher said to him: "Do not think that drawing eggs is easy, you should know that there are never two eggs in 1,000 that are exactly the same; even if it is the same egg, as long as the angle of view to see the shape is different, the oval outline of the egg will be different. Therefore, in order to put it on the drawing paper to show it perfectly, have to put in some hard work." From then on, da Vinci learn sketching by heart, after a long period of diligent and hard art practice, finally created many immortal famous paintings.

4. Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, did not like to read when he was a child. One day, while his teacher was not in the house, he quietly slipped out to play. He came to a small river at the bottom of a hill and saw an old woman grinding a pestle and mortar on a rock. Li Bai was puzzled and went up to him and asked, "Granny, what are you grinding the pestle for?" The old woman said, "I am sharpening a needle." Li Bai was surprised and asked, "Oh my! How can a mortar and pestle so thick be ground into a needle?" The old woman said with a smile: "As long as you grind it every day, the pestle will be more and more fine, and you are still afraid of not being able to grind it into a needle?" Li Bai heard, thought of himself, ashamed, turned around and ran back to the study. From then on, he remembered the truth of "as long as the work is deep, pestle and mortar into a needle", and studied furiously, and finally became a great poet, and was called "Poetry Immortal".

5. Zuo Si When Zuo Si was a young man in the Western Jin Dynasty, he read Zhang Heng's "Two Capitals Fugue" and was so inspired that he decided to write "Three Capitals Fugue" in the future. Lu Ji couldn't help but applaud and laugh, saying that it was a joke for a vulgar person like Zuo Si to write such a great work as the San Du Fu; even if it was written with great effort, it would surely be worthless, and would only be used to cover a wine jar. In the face of such humiliation, Zuo Si was determined to do nothing. He heard that the writings of Zhang Zai had traveled Min, Qiong (now Sichuan), on many occasions to seek advice in order to familiarize themselves with the local mountains and rivers, products, customs. He visited widely to understand, a large number of information collection, and then concentrated, hard writing. In his room, beside the fence, in the toilet put paper and pen everywhere, as long as he thought of good words and phrases he would record them with his own hands and revise them repeatedly. Zuo Si spent ten whole years' hard work and finally finished the San Du Fu. Lu Ji, in amazement and admiration, only to bow down.