Stories about celebrities who drip through stones .

During the Song Dynasty, there was a man named Zhang Qianya, who served as a county magistrate in Chongyang County. At that time, the social atmosphere in Chongyang was very poor, theft was commonplace, and even the county government treasury often had incidents of money and property theft.

One day, Zhang Qianya was patrolling around the yamen, and suddenly saw a small official who managed the county ya's treasury, and walked out of the treasury in a panic. Zhang Qianya hurriedly called the treasury official to stop and asked his entourage to search the treasury official. As a result, a copper coin was found in the treasurer's turban.

Zhang Lingya escorted the treasurer back to the lobby for interrogation and asked him how much money he had stolen from the treasury, but the treasurer did not admit that he had stolen any other money, so Zhang Lingya ordered torture. The treasurer was not convinced, and shouted angrily"What's the big deal about stealing a copper coin, and you torture me like this?

You can only beat me, can you still kill me? "Zhang Qianya couldn't help but be very angry when he saw that the treasury official dared to contradict him like this, he picked up the red pen without hesitation, pronounced the verdict and said:"One dollar a day, thousands of dollars a thousand days, the rope is sawed and the wood is broken, and the water drops are worn by stones.

This means that if you steal a copper coin in one day, you will steal a thousand copper coins in a thousand days. If you keep sawing wood with a rope, the wood will be sawn off; The water droplets keep dripping, and after a long time, they can drip through the stones.

After the verdict was completed, Zhang Lingya instructed the officials to escort the treasury officials to the execution ground and behead them for public display. Since then, the unhealthy trend of stealing in Chongyang County has been stopped, and the social atmosphere has also greatly improved.

Su Qin during the Warring States period studied day and night, and was so tired that he stabbed his legs with an awl to clear his mind; Sun Jing of the Han Dynasty, in order to prevent drowsy while studying, tied his hair with a rope to the beam of the house, and as long as he fell asleep, he would be woken up. This is the story of the "thorny strand hanging beam" in history.

Chisel the wall to steal the light Che Yin, Sun Kang, and Kuang Heng of the Jin Dynasty, their families were all very poor, and they couldn't even afford the oil to light the lamp. In the summer evening, Che Yin made a small bag of gauze, caught some fireflies and put them in, and read a book by the light emitted by the fireflies; Sun Kang sits in the snow on a bitterly cold winter night, taking advantage of the reflection of the snow to read hard; Kuang Heng carved a small hole in the wall to "steal" a little light from the neighbor's house to read. The idioms "sac fireflies reflect the snow" and "chisel the wall to steal the light" tell these stories.

Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, practiced calligraphy since childhood. Every time he finished writing, he went to the pond in front of his house to wash his brush, and after a long time, a pool of clear water turned into a pool of ink. Later, people called this pond "ink pond".

Through hard work, Wang Xizhi finally became a famous calligrapher and was known as the "sage of calligraphy".

These stories illustrate the truth of perseverance, dripping water through stones.

1. Zhan Tianyou is a national disregard for fame and profit: Zhan Tianyou, a pioneer of modern science and a famous engineer, was full of patriotic enthusiasm and was ordered to build the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway in the face of the difficult situation of having no capital, no technology and no talent in China. With the spirit of selflessness and hardship, he traveled all over the mountains and mountains between Beijing and Zhangjiakou, and it took only 5 million yuan and 4 years to build the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, which was planned for foreigners to cost 9 million yuan and took 7 years to complete.

The foreign experts who came to visit were all shocked and amazed. At that time, in recognition of Zhan Tianyou's achievements, some universities in the United States decided to award him a doctorate in engineering and invited him to attend the ceremony. However, Zhan Tianyou was tasked with the design of another railway, so he resolutely declined the invitation.

His spirit of serving the country and not making personal merits has won praise at home and abroad.

2. Hua Luogeng resolutely returned to China: Hua Luogeng, a great mathematician, returned to the motherland from the United Kingdom, where the anti-Japanese beacon was burning everywhere, after the "July 7" incident, not for money and degrees, and actively participated in the anti-Japanese salvation movement after returning to China. In 1950, he had become an internationally renowned first-rate mathematician and was hired as a tenured professor at the University of Illinois in the United States, but he resolutely led his family back to the newly liberated motherland.

3. Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan: As early as 1624, Dutch colonialism sent troops to invade Taiwan, China's territory, and implemented extremely barbaric and cruel rule, and the Taiwanese people fought heroically against the invaders. In 1661, Zheng Chenggong, who led the anti-Qing struggle on the southeast coast, led more than 350 warships and more than 25,000 soldiers to encircle Taiwan.

Taiwan has returned to the embrace of the motherland.

4. Patriotic hero Yang Jingyu: Yang Jingyu participated in the revolution at the age of 21, in the early 1940s, he was besieged by the Japanese army, was seriously wounded, and could not gnaw the bark, so he could only swallow the cotton in the cotton clothes and the ice and snow to satisfy his hunger. When the Japanese army failed to persuade them to surrender, they let go of their guns, and Yang Jingyu, who was only 35 years old, died heroically.

The brutal Japanese soldiers dissected his body, and when they saw that there were only weeds and cotton wool in his stomach, these invaders who were overwhelmed by the anti-Japanese coalition led by Yang Jingyu were all stunned. In the dense forests of Changbai Mountain, which is icy and snowy, the force that supports Yang Jingyu in fighting the enemy is against the motherland'A love affair.

5. Hua Luogeng returned to China: In 1950, mathematician Hua Luogeng gave up his tenured professorship in the United States and went to the motherland. On the way back, he wrote an open letter to students studying in the United States, in which he said:

In order to choose the truth, we should go back; For the sake of the country and the nation, we should go back; In order to serve the people, we should go back; Even for the sake of a personal outlet, we should go back as soon as possible, establish the foundation of our work, and strive for the construction and development of our great motherland. After returning to China, Hua Luogeng conducted research on applied mathematics, covering 23 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country, using mathematics to solve practical problems in a large number of production, and was known as the "people's mathematician".