The story of geniuses since ancient times, great men who made mistakes

Once, when it was time to eat, Edison was still not forthcoming, and his parents were very anxious and searched around, until late afternoon they found him in a hut on the edge of the yard. When his father saw him lying motionless in the haystack with a lot of eggs, he asked very strangely, "What are you doing here?"

Little Edison said unhurriedly: "I'm hatching chicks!" It turned out that he saw that the hen could hatch chicks, and he thought it was strange, and he always wanted to try it himself.

At that time, his father pulled him up angrily and amusedly, and told him that people can't hatch chicks. On the way home, he asked in bewilderment, "Why can a hen hatch chicks, but I can't?" ”

Since he is interested in many things, he often encounters danger. Once, when he went to the house where the wheat was stored, he accidentally planted his head in the wheat hoard, and the wheat buried his head and could not move. He almost died, but was found in time to grab him by the foot and pull him out.

Another time, he fell into the water and was pulled up like a chicken in soup. He himself was frightened. When he was 4 years old, he wanted to see what was in the wild honeycomb on the fence, so he poked it with a branch, and his face was so red and swollen from the wild bee that he could barely open his eyes.

There is a story about a genius calligrapher in Japan who was so good at writing since he was a child that people thought he would become famous in the future. 20 years have passed, and many people who used to be unknown have become famous, but that genius has disappeared.

A famous calligrapher went to this genius's home and found that he had been writing calligraphy unremittingly, but the words he wrote were all copied from Wang Xizhi's characters, which could be to the point of being fake, and finally his words became a fake that everyone denounced.

The origin of stinky tofu.

Legend has it that in the eighth year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Wang Zhi and Jin Bang, who came to Beijing from Anhui to take the exam, fell into the first place, lived in the hall, and wanted to return to their hometown, the transportation was inconvenient, and there was no entanglement; I want to study in Beijing and prepare to take the exam again, but it is far from the next examination period. had no choice but to make a living in Beijing temporarily. Wang Zhihe's family was not wealthy, his father opened a tofu workshop in his hometown, Wang Zhihe had learned to make tofu when he was a child, so he rented a few rooms near the Anhui Guild Hall, purchased some simple utensils, grinded a few liters of beans of tofu every day, and sold them along the street.

It's summer, and sometimes the leftover tofu quickly becomes moldy and inedible, but it is unwilling to be discarded. He thought hard about what to do, so he cut the tofu into small pieces, dried them a little, found a small jar, and salted them. After that, he closed down and devoted himself to studying, and gradually forgot about it.

The autumn breeze is cool, Wang Zhihe wants to return to his old business and make tofu to sell. Suddenly remembered the pot of pickled tofu, hurriedly opened the cylinder head, a smell came to the nose, took out a look, the tofu has been blue-gray, try it with the mouth, feel that the smell but contains a rich aroma, although it is not a delicacy, but it is also intriguing, give it to the neighbors to taste, are praised.

Wang Zhihe tried and failed repeatedly, so he had to give up studying and doing business, and processed stinky tofu according to the method he tried to make in the past. This product is cheap, can accompany meals, and is suitable for low-income workers, so it gradually opens up sales channels and business is booming. Later, after fundraising, a shop house was purchased in the middle of Yanshou Street, which was produced and sold by itself, and was operated in batches and zero.

According to the contract for the purchase of the house, it was the winter of the seventeenth year of Kangxi. Since Wang Zhihe created the unique stinky tofu, after many improvements, he gradually explored a set of stinky tofu production technology, and the production scale has been expanding, the quality is better, and the reputation is higher. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was introduced to the court.

Legend has it that the Empress Dowager Cixi also likes to eat it in late autumn and early winter, and also lists it as a side dish for the imperial meal, but its name is **, according to its green and square characteristics, named "Qingfang".

Someone asked the famous writer Mark Twain what is the difference between a small sail nuclear mistake and a big mistake. Mark Twain said, "If you come out of a restaurant and leave your own umbrella there, but take someone else's umbrella, that's a small mistake."

If you take someone else's umbrella and leave Hailstorm's own umbrella in the restaurant, that's a big mistake. ”

Xiang Yu lost Han Xin, Fan Zeng and other sages because he did not reflect on his narrow-minded shortcomings, and was finally defeated by Liu Bang.