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said that there was a person in the past, he didn't study, he grew up to be nothing, so he went to steal things, but he was caught by the police and collapsed.

Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period was a great thinker, politician, educator, and founder of Confucianism. Successive feudal rulers revered him as the most learned "saint" by nature. However, Confucius argued:

The remainder is not born to know, (no one, including himself, is born learned)".

The child enters the temple and asks about everything. Or ask: 'Who is the son of the Zou people?' Enter the temple and ask everything. When he heard it, he said, "It's Zhili." '”

Taimiao is the ancestral temple of the monarch. Confucius went to the Taimiao Temple to participate in the ceremony of worshipping the ancestors of the monarch of the Lu State. As soon as he entered the temple, he asked people this and that, almost everything.

At that time, some people ridiculed him: "Who said, 'The son of the Zou people, knows etiquette?'" When you come to the Taimiao, you have to ask everything.

(Zou, the name of the county at that time, the birthplace of Confucius, was in the west of Zouji, ten miles southeast of Qufu County, Shandong Province.) Confucius's father, Uncle Liang Su, was a county official in Zou County, so some people called Confucius "the son of Zou Ren" at that time, which means the son of a county official in Zou County. Confucius heard what people were saying about him and replied:

I have to ask everything I don't understand, and this is exactly the manifestation of my request for knowledge! ”

Doctor Kong Yuan is smart and studious, and what is even more rare is that he is a very humble person. After the death of Kong Yuan, the monarch of the country.

In order to allow future generations to learn and carry forward his studious spirit, Confucius specially gave him the title of "Wengong". Later generations respectfully called him Kong Wenzi. [4]

Zigong asked: "Why does Confucius call it Wenye?" Zi said: "Sensitive and studious, not ashamed to ask, is to say the text." ”

Confucius's student Zigong was also a patriot, but he did not think that Kong Yu deserved such a high evaluation. Once, he asked Confucius: "Although Confucius's knowledge and talent are very high, there are many more outstanding people than him, why did he give him the title of 'Duke of Wen'?"

Confucius smiled and said: "Confucius is very diligent and studious, smart and flexible, and if there is anything he does not understand, even if the other party's status or knowledge is not as good as him, he will ask for advice generously and modestly, and he will not be ashamed of it at all, this is what he is rare about, so it is not inappropriate to give him the title of 'Duke of Wen'." After Confucius's explanation, Zigong was finally convinced. [5]

Confucius replied: The goose has a long neck, so it cries loudly. The child said:

Frogs have short necks, so why do they croak? Confucius was speechless. He was ashamed to say to his students, I am not as good as him, he can be my teacher!

Once, Yan Liben went to Jingzhou, saw the paintings left by Zhang Sengqiu, and said: "It's really famous." "I was not very satisfied with Zhang Seng Miao in my heart.

But the next day, he suddenly thought: be humble and serious. I ran to see it again, and after reading it, I made a lot of money, and said:

Under the fame, there is indeed no fake celebrity! He sat and watched. After sitting for a long time, change your position and lie down to watch.

The more carefully and conscientiously you study, the more enlightening you will be, and the greater the harvest will be.

So, I stayed under the painting, and the next day, I studied and watched it again. After studying and watching for a total of ten days, I reluctantly left. His later achievements in painting were greatly inspired by Zhang Seng Xuan.

In modern times, Xu Beihong was reviewing his works at an art exhibition, and an old farmer from the countryside came forward to him and said to him:"Sir, the duck in your picture is wrong. You're drawing a shelduck, how can a female duck have such a long tail?

It turned out that Xu Beihong exhibited "Writing the Poetry of Dongpo Chunjiang Plumbing", in which the tail feathers of the hemp duck were long and curly like a ring. The old farmer told Xu Beihong that the male duck has bright feathers and some curly tails; The female has a flax-brown feathers and a very short tail. Xu Beihong accepted the criticism and expressed his deep gratitude to the old farmer.