The protagonist of this story is Kuang Heng. When Kuang Heng was a child, his family was poor, but he liked reading. He finishes his work during the day and comes to study at night. But Kuang Heng had no money to buy candles, which happened to be in the house next door. So Kuang Heng Jr. had a brainwave and cut a hole in the wall of himself and his neighbor's house, so that the light from the neighbor's house could shine through the hole and he could study at night.
A hole was drilled in the wall to get light from the neighbor's house.
In fact, Kuang Heng didn't just dig up the wall and steal the light for studying. In order to study more, he went to work in a family with a lot of books in the village. As long as he can study, he won't get paid. When he grew up, Kuang Heng became a famous scholar in ancient China.
The story we know ends here. Teachers and parents use this story to teach us to study hard, and Kuang Heng should create conditions to study under such difficult conditions.
Carve a wall and steal a statue.
In fact, the story is correct and the ending is correct, but the teacher and parents didn't finish the story.
Let's get to know Kuang Heng's life background first. You know, Kuang Heng was from the Western Han Dynasty and probably lived in Xuan Di's time.
In the Han dynasty, "respecting filial piety and saving righteousness" became an important criterion for selecting and using officials. Filial piety refers to selecting some filial and honest people from local governments to serve in the court. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, "hundreds of schools were ousted and Confucianism was the only one", and the status of Confucianism was greatly improved and it became orthodox literature. This enabled people at that time to take the Confucian classics examination in addition to the way of "promoting filial piety", and they could become officials as long as they passed any one of the six classics examinations.
Statue of Kuang Heng
Besides studying hard, Kuang Heng also has a good talent, especially good at reciting the Book of Songs. As a result, he became a history of literary death in Taiyuan county because he took the Confucian classics examination. In addition, due to Kuang Heng's reputation for being good at the Book of Songs, he was greatly appreciated in the imperial court. This made the then Prince Liu Shi also worship him as a teacher.
Kuang Heng gives lectures.
After Liu Shi ascended the throne, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty appointed Kuang Heng as a doctor and moved to be a doctor. Later, natural disasters such as solar eclipse and earthquake occurred in Chang 'an area. Kuang Heng took the opportunity to write a letter, citing the Book of Songs to explain that the upward role is the downward role, and advised Yuan Di to be close to virtuous and humble, refuse extravagance, make good use of people, advocate moral education among the people, and carry forward the wind of comity and kindness. Kuang Heng's performance in this book was highly appreciated, so Kuang Heng became a doctor of Guanglu and a prince of Shaofu.
Emperor Han and Yuan liked The Book of Songs very much. He has personally listened to Kuang Heng's lectures on The Book of Songs for many times, and he appreciates Kuang Heng's talent very much. In the third year of Zhao Jian (36 BC), Kuang Heng became prime minister and lived a happy and peaceful life.
Kuang Heng and Han Yuan Emperor
Kuang Heng, who became prime minister, seems to be different. He indulged his son, and his eldest son, Kuang Chang, was put in prison because he had a prime minister's father, who acted recklessly and even killed people after drinking. What is even more frightening is that his second son not only did not take the warning, but also wanted to rob the prison.
In addition, Emperor Han Yuan named him Happy Hou and gave him 365,438+00,000 mu of grain fields (enjoying taxes), but he was not satisfied. He used his power to invade 40,000 mu of grain fields. In addition, it was later revealed that someone reported to Emperor Han Yuan that Kuang Heng had occupied the land. In the end, Kuang Heng was deprived of his title and fief, demoted to Shu Ren, and eventually died of old age in his hometown.
Kuang Heng's life is legendary. He studied hard when he was young, and finally changed his fate and became a pillar of talent. Later, it expanded extremely and invaded the money and land of corrupt countries. Kuang Heng's story makes people feel sad.
When I learned about Kuang Heng's later story, I was thinking, we should all cause reflection:
As an individual, we should stick to the bottom line at all times and be clear about what we can and cannot do. Maybe we can't be as strong and successful as Kuang Heng. We may just be unknown in ordinary posts all our lives, but we must stick to our own character.
As parents, timely education and guidance of children is to correct their bad signs and tendencies. If Kuang Heng's parents guide Kuang Heng in time after knowing that Kuang Heng stole the light, the spirit of learning is commendable, but the method is wrong. Stealing without asking is stealing, and stealing is wrong, even if your intentions are good. Then Kuang Heng may not occupy 40,000 mu of grain land in the future.