The people of ancient times were hardworking, industrious and courageous, what are the stories about good qualities

1, Yugong Yishan.

Taihang, Wangya two mountains, seven hundred miles in circumference, seven or eight thousand feet high, in the south of Jizhou, north of the Yellow River. Below the northern mountain there was a man named Yugong, nearly 90 years old, who lived directly opposite the mountain. Suffering from the obstruction of the northern part of the mountain and the difficulty of getting in and out of it, he called his whole family together to discuss the matter and said, "I will try my best with you to dig up and flatten the treacherous mountain, so that the road will lead all the way to the southern part of Yuzhou, to the south bank of the Han River, all right?"

Everyone agreed. His wife questioned, "With your strength, you can't even flatten the small mountain of Kuifu, so what can you do about Taihang and Wangya? Besides, where to set aside the soil and stones dug down?" The people said, "Throw it to the edge of the Bohai Sea, north of the hidden earth." So Yugong led three of his children and grandchildren up the mountain, chiseled the stones, dug up the earth, and carried it to the edge of the Bohai Sea with a skip and a dustpan.

The wise man on the bay of the river sneered at Yugong and stopped him from doing this, saying, "You are simply too foolish! With your remaining years and your remaining strength you can't even move a blade of grass on the mountain, so what can you do with the soil and stones?"

The Fool of the North Mountain sighed, "Your heart is so stubborn, so stubborn that you can't get it right, and you're no match for an orphan or a widow. The wise man of Hequ had nothing to say in reply.

The mountain god holding the snake heard about this, and fearing that he would dig endlessly, reported it to the Heavenly Emperor. Touched by Yugong's sincerity, the Heavenly Emperor ordered the two sons of the Herculean god Qua'e to carry away the two mountains, placing one in the eastern part of Shuo Fang and one in the southern part of Yong Zhou. From that time on, there were no more high mountains in the southern part of Jizhou up to the southern bank of the Han River.

2. Smell the rooster.

Zu Ti, a native of Fanyang, who had great ambitions when he was young, served as the chief bookkeeper of Si Zhou with Liu Kun, and slept with Liu Kun. When he heard the rooster crowing in the middle of the night, he kicked and woke up Liu Kun, saying, "This is not an inauspicious crowing sound." So he got up and danced with his sword. When he crossed the river, the left chancellor Sima Rui made him the military counselor.

Zu Ti gathered together his brave and strong warriors and said to Si Ma Rui, "The rebellion of the Jin Dynasty was not caused by the resentment of the ministers because of the monarch's lack of justice, but rather by the competition for power between the royal clansmen, who killed each other, allowing the Rong and Di to take advantage of the loophole and scourge the Central Plains. The survivors of the Jin Dynasty are all devastated and want to strengthen themselves. If you, my lord, are truly able to send out generals to lead your troops, and have someone like me lead the troops to restore the Central Plains, there will surely be heroes and heroines from all over the country who will hear of the wind and respond!"

Shi Ma Rui, who had never had any ambition for a northern expedition, after listening to Zu Ti's words, made Zu Ti a general of Fenwei and an assassin of Yuzhou, and merely allotted him rations for a thousand men and 3,000 pairs of cloth, and did not supply him with weapons, so that Zu Ti could think of ways to raise them on his own.

Zu Ti led his private army*** of more than a hundred families across the Yangtze River, pounding his oars in the river and swearing, "If I, Zu Ti, fail to purge the Central Plains and come back across the river again, I will be like this river with no return!" So he stationed himself at Huaiyin, built furnaces to smelt and pour weapons, recruited another 2,000 men then moved on.

3. The king of Wu, King Helu, sent an army to attack the state of Yue in 496 B.C., but was defeated by Yue, and Helu died of his wounds. Two years later, King Helu's son, Fu Chai, led an army to defeat Yue, and King Goujian of Yue was sent to Wu as a slave. Goujian served the king of Wu for three years before Fu Chai removed his wariness of him and sent him back to Yue.

In fact, Goujian did not give up his desire for vengeance. He obeyed the king of Wu on the surface, but in secret he trained his troops, strengthened his government and waited for the right moment to strike back at Wu. The hard work of the people is a great way to build up the will, while the comfort of the people eats away at the will. Goujian was afraid that he would lose his will to avenge Wu's death by taking advantage of the comfort of the present, so he arranged a harsh living environment for himself.

He slept at night without a mattress, but only with some firewood and grass (called salary in ancient times), and hung a bitter gall in the house, which he tasted from time to time, in order not to forget the shame of the past. In order to encourage the people to participate in the labor with the queen and the people, the Yue people worked together to make the Yue country strong, and finally found the time to destroy the Wu country.

4, head hanging from a beam, awl stabbing the stock

Sun Jing is the Han Dynasty Xindu people, young and studious, knowledgeable, and addicted to books as life. Night reading and study often all night long. Neighbors called him "Mr. Closed". Sun Jing reading, take notes at any time, often have been to see the second half of the night, a long time, sometimes doze off. I woke up, and then regretted it.

One day, when he looked up and thought hard, his eyes rested on the beams of the house, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He then found a rope, one end of which was tied to the beam, and the lower end was tied to his own hair. In this way, whenever he was tired and sleepy and wanted to doze off, as long as his head was lowered, the rope would violently tug on his hair, and when it hurt, he would wake up and drive away the sleep.

From then on, when he read every night, he used this method to study hard. Year after year of hard study, so that Sun Jing read a lot of poetry and books, erudite and versatile, to become a knowledgable ancient and modern great scholars, in the time of the Jianghuai north quite famous, often not far away from the thousands of miles of schoolchildren, the books and stalls to come to him to learn to solve the problem, to discuss the learning.

During the Warring States period, there was a man named Su Qin, who was also a famous politician. When he was young, because of his lack of learning, he went to many places to work, but he was not taken seriously. When he returned home, his family was also cold to him and looked down on him. This stimulated him a lot, so he was determined to study hard.

He often read until late at night, and when he wanted to sleep, he took an awl, and as soon as he dozed off, he stabbed himself in the thigh with the awl. In this way, the pain was felt so violently that he woke himself up and insisted on reading again.

5. Su Wu Shepherds the Sheep

Su Wu was a member of the Han Dynasty in China in the first century BC. At that time, the relationship between the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains and the Xiong Nu, a minority regime in the northwest, was at times good and bad. In 100 BC, the new monarch of the Xiongnu regime assumed the throne, and the Emperor of the Han Dynasty sent Su Wu to lead the people as a gesture of friendship. Unexpectedly, just as Su Wu completed his mission and was about to return to his country, civil unrest broke out in the upper echelons of the Xiongnu, and Su Wu was detained and asked to betray the Han Dynasty and submit to the monarch.

Initially, Shan Yu sent people to Su Wu to persuade him, promising generous salaries and high positions, which Su Wu sternly refused. Seeing that persuasion was useless, the Xiongnu resorted to cool behavior. At that time, it was in the middle of winter. Shan Yu ordered Su Wu to be locked up in a large open cellar and cut off food and water, hoping that this would change Su Wu's belief. As time passed, Su Wu suffered a lot in the cellar. When he was thirsty, he ate a handful of snow, and when he was hungry, he chewed the sheepskin jacket he wore.

After several days, Shan Yu saw that Su Wu, who was on the verge of death, still did not show any sign of submission, so he had to release Su Wu. Shan Yu knew that no matter soft, or hard, persuade Su Wu surrender is hopeless, but more and more respect Su Wu's temperament, can not bear to kill Su Wu, but also do not want him to return to their own country, so decided to Su Wu exile to Siberia, Baikal Lake area, so that he can go to shepherd sheep.

Before his departure, Shan Yu summoned Su Wu and said, "Since you won't surrender, I'll let you go and herd sheep, and when the rams give birth to lambs, I'll let you return to the Central Plains." Separated from his companions, Su Wu was exiled to the shores of Lake Baikal, which was off the beaten path. The only company Su Wu had was the envoy's stick, which represented the Han Dynasty, and a small flock of sheep.

Su Wu took the stick every day to herd the sheep, thinking that one day he would be able to return to his own country with it. Day after day, year after year, the decoration on the stick fell off, and Su Wu's hair and beard turned gray. At Lake Baikal, Su Wu shepherded his sheep for nineteen years.

In the past ten years, the Xiongnu monarch who had ordered him to be imprisoned had passed away, and in Su Wu's country, the old emperor had died, and the old emperor's son had succeeded to the throne. At this time, the new monarch of the implementation of the policy of peace with the Han Dynasty, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty immediately sent ambassadors to take Su Wu back to his country.