Cao Chong was born smart, and when he was five or six years old, his intelligence was almost the same as that of an adult. There are allusions to the image of Cao Chong in history.

Cao Chong said that once Sun Quan of Soochow gave Cao Cao an elephant, and Cao Cao was very happy. On the day when the elephant was transported to Xuchang, Cao Cao led the civil and military officials and his youngest son, Cao Chong, to see it.

Cao Cao's people have never seen an elephant. The elephant is tall and big, and its legs are as thick as the pillars of the hall. When people get closer, they can't reach its stomach.

One said, "just build a top scale."

Another said, "How big a scale this needs! Besides, elephants are alive and there is no way to weigh them! I think we must kill it, cut it into pieces and weigh it. "

Hardly had he finished speaking when everyone burst out laughing. Everyone said, "What a stupid way you are! Isn't it a pity to kill an elephant alive in order to weigh it? "

Ministers tried many methods, but none of them worked. It's really embarrassing.

At this time, a child came out of the crowd and said to Cao Cao, "Dad, I have a way to call an elephant."

Cao Chong said. Hearing this, Cao Cao cheered again and again, ordered the left and right sides to prepare elephants at once, and then said to his ministers, "Go! Let's go to the river to see elephants! "

Ministers followed Cao Cao to the river. There was a big boat parked in the river, and Cao Chong had an elephant brought on board. When the ship was stabilized, a road was carved on the horizontal plane of the ship's side. Then let people take the elephant to the shore, put the stones, big and small, on the boat one by one, and the boat will sink bit by bit. When the hull sank to the same height as the water, Cao Chong told people to stop loading stones.

Cao Cao was naturally happier. He squinted at his son and looked at the ministers proudly, as if to himself: "You are not as clever as my little son!" " "

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Fang Zhongyong, a native of Jinxi, Jiangxi Province in the Northern Song Dynasty, worked as a farmer for generations. He was gifted since he was a child, but he became a public figure as an adult.

Fang Zhongyong is a civilian in Jinxi County, who has been farming for generations. When Zhong Yong was five years old, he had never seen writing tools, and suddenly he cried for them. His father was surprised by this and borrowed them from his neighbor's house. He immediately wrote four poems and wrote his own name. His father gave them to the scholars in the town to watch. From then on, he was assigned to write poetry, and he could finish it at once. The literary talent and authenticity of these poems are worthy of appreciation. In the same county. Gradually, his father was invited to visit him. Some people asked Zhong Yong to write poems with money and gifts. His father thought it was profitable. He took Fang Zhongyong to visit people in the same county every day to stop him from studying.

I've heard about it for a long time. During the reign of Ming Dow, I followed my late father back to my hometown and met Fang Zhongyong at my uncle's house. He is twelve or thirteen years old. Letting him write poetry is out of proportion to what I have heard before. Seven years later, I came back from Yangzhou and asked about Fang Zhongyong. My uncle said, "He can disappear completely, just like ordinary people."

Mr. Wang said: our knowledge and understanding ability are innate. His talent is far higher than that of ordinary talented people. Because he didn't get the education the day after tomorrow, he finally became an ordinary person. A naturally intelligent person like him will become an ordinary person if he has no acquired education. Therefore, those who are not born smart and ordinary now may not be ordinary if they don't receive education after tomorrow. Seven-year-old Wang Rong Wang Rong tried to swim with the children. Look at the roadside. There are branches everywhere in Li Shu. The children are fighting for it, but they are unwilling to move. People asked him and replied, "There are trees on the roadside, but there are many seeds, which will make plums bitter." Accept it and believe it. -This story about bitter plum on the roadside was first recorded in Shi Shuo Xin Yu. This philosophical short story makes us put Wang Rong into the ranks of prodigies without hesitation. If Cao Chong's talent lies in solving problems, then Wang Rong's talent lies in observing and summarizing.

-Kong Rong is ten years old. When he went to Los Angeles with his father, Li Yuanli had a good reputation, and all those who came by were treated with courtesy. After he delivered the message, the doorman invited people to meet him at the mansion. Li Yuanli asked, "What is your relationship with your servant?" Kong Rong said to Japan: "The ancestor Zhong Ni (Confucius) and the ancestor Bo Yang (Laozi) have the friendship of asking questions, and it is very good to take your servant as your friend." This sentence comes from a child of 10 years old, which surprised Li Yuanli and the guests present. Dr. Yang Chen, a Chinese medicine doctor, arrived later and heard about it. He said, "It's time, but it's not necessarily good to be older." Smart when you are young, not necessarily good when you grow up. This is a common thing, but not for Kong Rong. Unexpectedly, Kong Rong replied, "When I was young, I became a pawn."

Here, a technique of rest is used, which means that Chen Yi is now "big may not be good". Yang Chen was so embarrassed by this counterattack that he could not speak for a moment. A 10-year-old child, the celebrity was tongue-tied in one sentence, and Kong Rong's quick thinking was really amazing.

-Sima Guang once played with his friends in the backyard. There is a big water tank in the yard. A child climbed to the edge of the tank and accidentally fell into the tank factory. The water tank is very deep, and it seems that the child is going to have no roof. When other children saw that something was wrong, they cried and cried in fear and ran outside to ask adults for help. Sima Guang, however, used his quick wits to pick up a big stone from the ground and hit it hard at the water tank. "bang!" The water tank was broken, the water in the tank came out, and the child who was submerged in the water was saved. Xiao Sima Guang was calm when he was in trouble, and he was like an adult since he was a child. This is the story of "Sima Guang smashing a jar" that has been passed down to this day. This accidental event made Xiao Sima Guang famous, and people in Tokyo and Luoyang painted it and spread it widely.

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Gan Luo drove to Zhang Tang and said, "In those days, Wu disobeyed orders to attack Zhao, was driven out of Xianyang and died. Now Wen Xinhou's power is much greater than that of Ying Hou. If you disobey his orders, it seems that your death is not far away! " Hearing this, Zhang Tang was so scared that he promised to go to see Yan.

With the consent of the government, Gan Luo went to Zhao to lobby according to the intention of Qin State to expand Hejian County. In view of Zhao Wang's psychological state that Qin Yan's alliance is unfavorable to Zhao, he went to great lengths to say: "Qin Yan's alliance is nothing more than trying to occupy the land between Zhao and the river." If you cede the five cities of Hejian to the State of Qin, I can go back and persuade the King of Qin to cancel the mission of Zhang Tang and sever the alliance with the State of Yan. If you attack Yan, Qin will never interfere, and Zhao will have as many as five cities! " Zhao Wang was overjoyed and gave Ganluo the maps and household registration of the five cities in Hejian. Ganluo returned with a full load, and Qin won the land of Hejian without a single soldier. The King of Qin named Ganluo, who was 0/2 years old, as Shangqing, and gave him the land that was named Gan Mao in that year. Because the rank of prime minister at that time was similar to that of Shangqing, people inferred that Ganluo was the prime minister at the age of twelve. There are indeed many prodigies in the history of China: at the age of seven, Xiang Tuo failed Confucius and became his teacher. Qin Ganluo 12 years old made contributions and was worshipped by the king of Qin as Shangqing. Dong Fangshuo of the Han Dynasty could recite the History of Wei at the age of two. Cao Zhi, Tao Yuanming and Yan Zhitui all read extensively since childhood. Liu, a litterateur in the Southern Dynasties, can read poems and poems at the age of six, Yin Keng can recite thousands of words a day at the age of four, and Xu Ling can read widely at the age of seven. Among the four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty, Lu "read rites and smelled poems" when he was young. At the age of six, Luo wrote the poem "Ode to Goose", which has been passed down through the ages. At the age of five, Wang Bo wrote an ingenious article, which often surprised everyone. Notes on writing Hanshu at the age of 8. Yang Jiong was a 9-year-old child prodigy, and was later awarded as a school bookkeeper. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty-Bai, Wang Wei, Li He and others are amazing. When Wang Wei was young, he was familiar with temperament, calligraphy and painting, and was good at writing. When I was young, I wrote "I miss my relatives twice during the festive season", which has been passed down to this day. Li Bai accepted two languages, Chinese and Turkic, and was able to recite Liu Jia at the age of five. 10 had finished reading A Hundred Schools of Thought by the age of 0. Du Fu sang the famous poem Phoenix when he was seven years old. Bai Juyi can write poetry at the age of five or six, and he can distinguish the rhythm at the age of nine. Han Yu was educated from an early age. At the age of four, he was able to speak amazingly. At the age of six, I can read The Book of Songs, Mencius, Mandarin and Historical Records. Li He began to write poems at the age of five or six. When he was 7 years old, he wrote Yuefu poems and copied them in Beijing, which attracted great praise from Han Yu and others. Ancient Yanwu developed amazing reading habits when he was young. When I was young, I joined the society and opposed eunuchs and powerful people. And put forward the famous view that "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world"

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Kang Youwei began to read paintings at the age of 3, The Analects of Confucius and The Doctrine of the Mean at the age of 4, and at the age of 5, he began to express his ambition of "fish dragon" with catkins. 12-year-old Bo prodigy title.

Liang Qichao read four books at the age of four or five, and finished A Brief History of China and The Five Classics at the age of six. Eleven-year-old scholar, sixteen-year-old examinee. /kloc-entered Guangzhou Xuehaitang at the age of 0/2 (then the highest local institution of higher learning).