Steal light by digging a hole in the wall.

It describes the story that Kuang Heng studied hard in the Western Han Dynasty and eventually became a great scholar.

Now this idiom is generally used to describe diligent study.

The story of stealing light from the wall happened in Yang Xia Village, Gangshan Street, Zoucheng City.

According to the biography of Han Kuang Heng, Kuang Heng, the prime minister of the Western Han Dynasty, fled here from Donghai County when he was young. Because of his poor family, he works during the day and digs the wall at night, and is watched by his neighbor Mrs. Yang.

After Kuang Heng was appointed as Prime Minister, he made a special trip to visit in order to repay Mrs. Yang's kindness in reading by lamp. At this time, Mrs. Yang passed away.

Later, the village was renamed Yang Xia Village.

Nowadays, people generally use this idiom to describe diligent study and hard study.

Kuang (kuāng) Heng (the year of birth and death is unknown) was born in Chengxian County, Donghai County (now Kuangtan Village, Wangzhuang Township, Yicheng District, Zaozhuang City).

His ancestral home is Donghai City (now Lanling Town, Lanling County, Linyi City), and Kuang Heng's tomb is located in Tantan Village, Huali Mine, southwest of Yicheng, Zaozhuang, Shandong Province 14, which is Kuang Heng's hometown.

A scholar and minister of Confucian classics in the Western Han Dynasty was famous for saying "poetry".

Yuan Di is the Prime Minister.

The village where Kuang Heng lives is called Wang Kuang Village (located in Lucheng Town, Lanling County, Linyi City, Shandong Province), the mountain to the north of Wang Kuang Village is called Kuangshan, the village where Kuang Heng goes to school is called Laoshu Village, and the stone at the school station in Kuang Heng is called Wangzishi.