One morning, Shen Congwen slipped out of the classroom and went to the village to watch a play alone. On that day, the puppet show was The Monkey King Crossing the Flame Mountain. Shen Congwen was very happy and burst into laughter. He didn't go back until the sun set. By this time, the school was over.
The next day, as soon as Shen Congwen entered the school gate, he asked him severely why he was absent from class. He blushed and faltered. The teacher knelt down under the tree in anger and scolded loudly: "Look, this nanmu tree is growing every day, but you just don't want to make progress, and you are willing to be a worthless dwarf." The next day, the teacher called him again and said to him, "Everyone is studying hard, but you secretly went to the theatre. Although I humiliated you yesterday, it was for your own good. Only with respect can a person be respected. " What the teacher said made Shen Congwen shed tears. He secretly vowed that he must remember this lesson and be a respected person. Since then, Shen Congwen has been strict with himself and became a famous writer when he grew up. Once, Confucius and his disciples Luz, Zigong and Yan Yuan went to Haizhou to play. When Confucius heard the rumble, he said to Luz, "There is thunder and rain on the other side of the mountain. Why did you rush there? " Lutz said: "This is not the sound of thunder and rain, but the sound of waves lapping on the shore." Confucius had never seen the sea before and wanted to go to the seaside to see the sea, so Confucius and his party took a bus to the foot of Fuyang Mountain by the sea.
When Confucius and his disciples climbed to the top of the mountain, they saw that water and sky were connected and the sea was vast. They are all very excited. At this time, Confucius felt hot and thirsty. He asked Yan Yuan to go down the mountain to scoop seawater to drink.
Yan Yuan took the utensils and was about to go down the mountain when he heard someone laughing behind him. Everyone thinks it's strange. Looking back, he was a fisherman's child and asked him what he was laughing at. The child said, "The sea water is salty and astringent, so you can't drink it." After that, he handed the bamboo tube full of fresh water to Confucius.
Confucius drank water to quench his thirst and was very grateful to his children. He was about to thank him. Suddenly, there was a storm from the sea breeze. Lutz looked worried and shouted, "Oh, no, where can I hide from the rain now?"
The fisherman's child said to everyone, "Don't worry, please come with me!" " "Say that finish, the child led the child a line of people into a cave, that's where he usually hides fish. Confucius stood at the mouth of the cave to hide from the rain, and while thinking about the seascape in the rain, he couldn't help but sing two poems: "The wind blows thousands of waves in the sea, and the rain hits the beach." "Three disciples of Confucius praised Confucius' poems with one voice, but the child objected. He said to Confucius, "Have you ever counted thousands of waves and pits?" Confucius convincingly agreed to the child's backchat.
After the rain stopped, the children went fishing at sea again. Confucius recalled a few things that happened just now and said apologetically to his three disciples, "I said before that I was only smart and stupid." It seems inappropriate. We should still advocate' learning and knowing' and' knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing'. "
Confucius was a world-famous saint at that time, but in front of a child, he realized his shortcomings and mistakes and dared to admit them.