Sun Jing was a native of Xindu (now jizhou city) in Han Dynasty. Since he was a child, he likes reading, reading widely, memorizing, and regards books as his life. He often stays up reading and studies at night. So the neighbors call him "Mr. Close the Door".
While studying, Sun Jing always takes notes. He often stays up until after midnight. After a long time, he sometimes falls asleep. I regretted it when I woke up. One day, he looked up and thought hard, his eyes stopped on the beams, and suddenly his eyes shone. Then I found a rope. One end of the rope is tied to the beam and the lower end is tied to my hair.
In this way, whenever he is tired and sleepy and wants to doze off, as long as he lowers his head, the rope will yank his hair, and when it hurts, he will wake up to drive away sleepiness. Since then, he has studied hard in this way every night. And the effect is very good.
After studying hard year after year, Sun Jing read many poems and became a learned scholar. At that time, he was quite famous in the north of Jianghuai, and students often traveled thousands of miles to study with him to discuss knowledge and answer questions together.
Second, the awl thorn stock
Among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, Qin constantly sent troops to attack neighboring countries and occupied many places. The other six countries are afraid and try their best to deal with it. At that time, a man named Su Qin proposed "uniting" against the State of Qin, which means that the six countries unite against the State of Qin. Because the position of the six countries runs through the north and south, and the north and south are vertical, it is called "combination".
Su Qin is from Luoyang. Luoyang was the capital of the Zhou Emperor at that time. He wants to do something. He once asked to see Zhou Tianzi, but unfortunately there was no way to introduce him. In a rage, he sold his property and went to other countries to find a way out. But he ran for several years and didn't become an official. Later, I ran out of money and my clothes were worn out, so I had to go home. The family saw him wearing sandals and carrying a broken bag, looking like a mess.
His parents were very angry and scolded him severely; His wife sat on the loom knitting silk without even looking at him; He begged his sister-in-law to cook for him, but she ignored him and leaned down and walked away. Su Qin was greatly stimulated and determined to take a breath. From then on, he studied hard and studied the art of war until late at night every day.
Sometimes I study until midnight, and when I am tired and sleepy, I prick my thigh with an awl. Although it is very painful, sometimes it is still bleeding, but when the spirit comes, I will continue reading. In this way, it took more than a year's effort, and his knowledge was much richer than before, and his knowledge became profound.
Beginning in 334 BC, he went to six countries to lobby for the idea of "integration" and succeeded. In the second year (333 BC), the governors of the six countries entered into a vertical alliance. Su Qin hung the national seal of six countries and became a prominent figure.
Later generations also derived this idiom from Su Qin's allusions.
Later generations combined Sun Jing's "Hanging Beam on the Head" and Su Qin's "Sticking Stock on an awl" into idioms to encourage future generations to study angrily. Also known as "hanging beam thorn"
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Revenge for "aiming too high"
Generally speaking, there is always a time to clarify grievances. Like Yang Naiwu and Chinese Cabbage, although "a feud has been circulating for a hundred years, it can't be said that the sky is blue for a long time", but under the administrative intervention of Cixi Galeries Lafayette, the people who should do it were dealt with, and the cadres who were "double-regulated" were also "double-regulated". Even if some grievances were shady at that time, future generations would clear them up. For example, Yue Fei.
Leave a reputation of "Castle Peak is lucky enough to bury loyal bones" for future generations. Qin Gui, an old thief who has done unjust cases, is only worthy of "casting innocent courtiers with white iron" and can never lift a tombstone. There are still some unjust cases that don't need to be cleaned up by predecessors and descendants, because it's a joke, like Dou E, is there any injustice? It doesn't matter. Before he died, he swore to let it "dry for six years in In the snow". No matter who cares, God has the final say in this case. Hum!
In this way, people's grievances will be rehabilitated sooner or later. However, some written mistakes are often not so easy to correct. Many words, like children in slavery, are labeled as inferior as soon as they land, which is used in derogatory sense. For example, the word "aim high" has been used by parents and teachers since childhood.
It is always good to teach us this lesson: "Boy, don't aim too high!" " Do your best. "When I grow up, I want to be ambitious at work, but I am led by the nose.
Clapped his shoulder and said, "Young man, it's better to be down to earth!" " The subtext is, "Don't be greedy for perfection", "Crabs want to eat swan meat", "overreaching" or "daydreaming" and so on. It can really be said that "Xiao He only shows sharp horns, and dragonflies have long stood on his head".
Anyone who is ambitious and successful in the future is not "ambitious" without exception. Bill? The story of Gates has inspired the restless hearts of many young people. An unemployed young man who can't even get a bachelor's degree actually threatened "I want to be a billionaire before the age of 25". Gee, listen to this tone. What is "aiming too high"?
In fact, his future success is far more than this figure. This brother is the richest man in the world! What about Harry? Harry Potter's mother, Rowling, was originally a laid-off female worker in Britain. In the eyes of some secular people, selling pancakes, cigarettes, fruits and sweet-scented osmanthus candy is the greatest truth. But this bitch.
I insisted on writing some books and boasted to those who laughed at her that "my future income will not be worse than that of the rich". Good boy! Look at this posture. What is not "aiming too high"? In fact, Ms. Rowling's future income is not worse than that of the Queen of England.
Who says people are called "aim high", which is different from the lexical nature. So, what if a young man or a young man suddenly appeared before our eyes and took advantage of Bill? Gates or Rowling said in a tenth tone, "I want to be a millionaire and earn as much as my boss in the future."
Maybe people will be happy to hear it. Bah! You deserve it too! It reminds people of the sentence that Grandpa Zhao scolded Ah Q in The True Story of Ah Q. Even if you argue irrationally, you will still be in the spirit of "the monk can't touch me." Alas!
In fact, "aiming high" means "impossible", and the progress of the whole mankind is to constantly turn all kinds of "impossible" into "possible". The bigger the dream, the higher the achievement. Didn't the CCTV promo also say that "the bigger the heart, the bigger the stage"?
Anyway, I can't figure it out. Finally, I checked the origin of "ambition", which is "Song history? Taoist biography? Cheng Hao's biography, the original sentence is: "Sick people are tired of being humble and ambitious, and accomplish nothing. "
Good: I like it; Pursuit. God, this is really a huge injustice. I don't have any derogatory meanings. They just remind people not to "get the moon first by being close to the water". Of course, if you are near, you will accomplish nothing, but if you are near, you will aim high. How can they accomplish nothing?
As the saying goes, who wants to get up early if people are not profitable? Once we set a goal that we think is worth fighting for, we will find that many things in life suddenly become meaningful, while others suddenly become less important. Because of this "aim high" goal, we are no longer lazy, and we live as if we were going to die tomorrow.
This goal urges us to work hard, persist and break our ideals into posts, details and sweat. Even if you struggle and pay, there is still a big discount between your ideals and achievements. So what? The ancients said: "Take it and get it; Take one, take one. "Our achievements are still much more glorious and proud than those who did nothing from the beginning.
In fact, whether a sentence can tell the truth is not necessarily the original intention of the literati. The key is whether we can prove our "ambition" with today's efforts and future achievements. It is their business to expose the truth.