300 stories about the growth of great men

Sima Guang, Yu Junshi, known as Shushui, is a native of Shushui Township, Xia County, Shaanzhou Prefecture of the Northern Song Dynasty (now Xia County, Shanxi), and is known as Mr. Shushui.

Sima Guang was born in November of the third year of the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty (1019 AD), when his father, Sima Chi, was serving as the commander of Gwangsan County in Gwangju, so he named him"Light"。Sima Guang's family has been an official eunuch for generations, and his father Sima Chi later became an official to the military department Langzhong and Tianzhang Pavilion to be systematized, and has always enjoyed a good reputation for honesty and benevolence.

Sima Guang was deeply influenced by his father and was smart and studious from an early age. According to historical records, Sima Guang liked to read "Zuo Biography" very much, often"I can't release the book in my hand, so I don't know hunger, thirst, cold and heat"。At the age of seven, he was able to recite the "Zuo Chuan" proficiently, and was able to tell the outline of more than 200 years of history clearly, which shows that he has had a very strong interest in history since he was a child.

In addition, there is another thing that makes Xiao Sima Guang famous in Kyushu. Once, he was playing in the backyard with his friends. There is a large water tank in the yard, and a child climbs on the edge of the tank to play, and accidentally falls into the tank factory.

The tank was so deep that I saw that the kid was about to run out of tops. When the other children saw that something had happened, they were so frightened that they cried and shouted, and ran outside to ask for help from adults. Sima Guang was in a hurry, picked up a big stone from the ground, and threw it at the water tank"Bang!

The water tank broke, the water in the tank flowed out, and the child who was drowned in the water was saved. The little Sima Guang is calm and calm, and he has been a little adult since he was a child. This is what has been passed down to this day"Sima Guang smashed the cylinder"story.

This fortuitous incident made Xiao Sima Guang famous, and some people in Tokyo and Luoyang drew pictures of this incident and spread it widely.

Lincoln who refused to give up.

Perhaps the best example of staying the course is Abraham Lincoln. If you want to know who gave up in the end, look no further!

Lincoln, who was born destitute, faced setbacks throughout his life, losing eight of his eight campaigns, failing twice in business, and even having a mental breakdown once. Many times, he could have given up, but he didn't, and it was because he didn't give up that he became one of the greatest in American history. Here's Lincoln's resume before he moved into the White House:

In 1816, the family was evicted from the place of residence, and he had to work to support them.

In 1818, his mother died.

In 1831, the business failed.

In 1832, he ran for state legislature but lost!

In 1832, I lost my job and wanted to go to law school, but I couldn't get in.

In 1833, he borrowed money from a friend to start a business, but at the end of the year he went bankrupt, and it took him sixteen years to pay off his debts.

In 1834, he ran again for state legislature and won!

In 1835, when he was about to get married after his engagement, his last wife died, and his heart was broken!

In 1836, he suffered a complete nervous breakdown and was bedridden for six months.

In 1838, the campaign to become a spokesman for the state legislator was unsuccessful.

In 1840, the fight to become an elector failed!

In 1843, he participated in Congress** and was defeated!

In 1846, he participated in Congress again** and this time he was elected! Head to Washington, D.C., and you're doing a great job.

In 1848, the search for re-election of members of Congress failed!

In 1849, the desire to work as a land commissioner in his own state was denied!

In 1854, he ran for the U.S. Senate and lost!

In 1856, the Republican National Convention won less than a hundred votes for the nomination of vice-president.

In 1858, he ran again for the U.S. Senate and lost again.

In 1860, he was elected to the United States. (American) Jack).

Comments: The road was hard and muddy. I slipped on one foot, and I couldn't stand on the other; But I breathed a sigh of relief and told myself"It's just a slip, not a death and can't get up. "—Lincoln after losing his bid for the Senate.

Washington, Washington was the first in the United States, when he was a child.

One heart wine, one heart wine, one heart wine, one heart wine.

When Liu Xiang was young, he received high jump training, and after entering the sports school, the coach found that his adult height could not guarantee him to become a world-class high jumper after a bone test, so at the suggestion of the sports school coach, Liu Xiang began to turn to hurdle training in 1998. In 2002, Liu Xiang broke the 110-meter hurdles world youth record that had been in the dust for 24 years. The following year, he won a bronze medal at the World Athletics Championships and became one of the world's top hurdlers.

At the 2004 Athens Olympics, although Liu Xiang was not widely expected to win the gold medal in the 110m hurdles before the competition, he perfectly played his technical advantages in the final, crossed the finish line first with a nearly three-meter advantage, and tied the world record at that time with a time of seconds. On July 12, 2006, in the Lausanne Athletics Super Grand Prix in Switzerland, Liu Xiang broke the world record of 12.91 seconds, which had been dormant for 13 years, with a time of 12.88 seconds. Liu Xiang was the first Chinese male athlete to win a gold medal in an Olympic track and field event, and he was only 21 years old when he won the Olympic gold medal.

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Liu Xiang retired due to injury, which sparked controversy.

"Chen Ping endures humiliation and reads hard".

Chen Pingxi Han famous, when he was young, his family was poor, and his brother depended on each other, in order to uphold his father's order, glorify the court, do not produce, study behind closed doors, but is not tolerated by the sister-in-law, in order to eliminate the contradiction between the brother and sister-in-law, in the face of repeated humiliation, forbearance, with the sister-in-law intensified, finally unbearable, ran away from home, wanted to wander the world, after being chased back by the brother, regardless of the previous suspicions, the brother was prevented from resuming the sister-in-law, and it was passed on as a beautiful talk in the local area. In the end, there is an old man, who came to teach apprentices for free, and after completing his studies, he assisted Liu Bang and achieved a hegemony.

Lu Yu abandoned the Buddha from the text

Lu Yu, a famous scholar of the Tang Dynasty, was an orphan since he was a child and was raised by Zen Master Zhiji. Although Lu Yu is in the temple, he does not want to chant scriptures and recite Buddha all day long, but likes to read poetry and books. Lu Yu insisted on going down the mountain to study, but was opposed by the Zen master.

In order to give Lu Yu a problem, and also to better educate him, the Zen master asked him to learn to make tea. In the process of studying the art of tea, Lu Yu met a kind old woman, who not only learned the complex skills of making tea, but also learned a lot of reading and life principles. When Lu Yu finally brought a steaming cup of Kuding tea to the Zen master, the Zen master finally agreed to his request to go down the mountain to study.

Later, Lu Yu wrote the widely circulated "Book of Tea", which carried forward the tea culture of the motherland!

The story of China's great man (350 words).

Stephen Hawking's story.

Stephen Hawking, a scientist, didn't seem to be a strong learner as a child, he learned to read very late, he never finished in the top 10 in his class after school, and because his homework was always "very untidy", his teachers felt that he was "hopeless", and his classmates made him an object of ridicule. When Hawking was 12 years old, two boys in his class made a bet with a bag of candy that he would never make it, and his classmates ironically nicknamed him "Einstein." Who knows, more than 20 years later, the little boy who was not outstanding back then has really become a master figure in the physics world.

What is the reason for this?

It turned out that as he grew older, Hawking Jr. became interested in how everything worked, and he often took things apart to get to the bottom of it, but when it came time to put them back together, he was helpless, but his parents did not punish him for this, and his father even gave him a "coach" in mathematics and physics. At the age of thirteen or fourteen, Hawking found himself interested in the study of physics, which he considered to be the most basic science, and although it was too easy and too superficial to be boring, he believed that it was the most basic science, and that it would promise to solve the question of where people came from and why they were here. From then on, Hawking began a real scientific quest.

Lenin was a serious child as a child. Lenin was in school, and he studied every subject very well. The teacher lectured, and he listened attentively.

The homework left by the teacher, he did it seriously. Lenin finished his schoolwork and read many extracurricular books. He often told the stories in his books to others.

He loved the hard-working and brave people in the book and used them as his example. Lenin was very fond of books. He never stained his books and didn't throw them around.

This is how Lenin learned as a child.

Turgenev and his childhood life.

The story of the ancients' diligent study - Kuang Heng.

There was a man named Kuang Heng, whose family was poor, he could not afford to buy candles, and he could not read at night. Kuang Heng's neighbor's house lit candles every night, and he wanted to go to his neighbor's house to study, but he was refused. Later, Kuang Heng came up with a good solution, he cut a small hole in the wall, and the light from the neighbor's house came through, and he pointed the book to the light and read it.

Kuang Heng read more and more books, but he didn't have the money to buy them. One day, he found a talented master's house, and there were a lot of books piled up at home, so he went to help the talented master's family work, and he didn't need money, and the talented master was very strange and asked him: Why are you working in vain!

Kuang Heng didn't hide it, so he said: "I help you work, I don't want to get paid, I just want to borrow your book to read, I don't know if you agree?" The master was very happy, so he lent him the books at home, and Kuang Heng became a learned person.