About Cheng Menlixue, a brief introduction to the story of cutting through walls to steal light

1. Chengmen Lixue

During the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a scholar named Yang Shi. Yang Shi is a very polite, humble and studious person. No matter what difficulties he encountered, he would always find a way to get the knowledge he wanted to know from others. Mainly things related to study, he will do it no matter how high the price is.

That year, Yang Shi was already forty years old. Once, he and his good friend You Ye made an appointment in advance to meet Cheng Yi. Cheng Yi was a well-known university scholar at the time. .

When Yang Shi and his good friend You Ye walked to Cheng Yi's house, they learned that Cheng Yi happened to be sleeping at home at the time. Since Yang Shi was a very polite person, he felt that he should not disturb the teacher when he was sleeping, even though he was eager to learn knowledge immediately. In this way, Yang Shi and his friend stood quietly at the teacher's door, waiting for the teacher to wake up.

After a while, heavy snow gradually fell from the sky. The weather also started to get very cold. The snow is falling harder and harder, and the weather is getting colder and colder, but the teacher is still sleeping. They were still very polite and did not disturb the teacher, but waited in the heavy snow. At this time, Yang Shi's friend You Zuo could no longer hold on because of the cold winter snow weather. He wanted to wake up Teacher Cheng several times, but Yang Shi didn't let him do so.

The two of them persisted in the heavy snow, insisting on standing and waiting for the teacher to wake up and explain the problem to them. When Teacher Cheng Yi woke up, he found two "snowmen" standing outside the door.

2. Cutting through walls to steal light

Kuang Heng was a native of the Western Han Dynasty and was born in a poor peasant family. He has loved reading since childhood. He had to work during the day and didn't have much free time. He wanted to study at night, but was too poor to light a lamp, which made him very distressed. Later, he found that his neighbor's house had lights every night, so he thought of a way. Because there was only a wall between the neighbor's lighted house and his living room, so he cut a small hole in the wall.

As expected, the light came through the small hole. He jumped for joy. From then on, he squatted at the foot of the wall every night, reading with this ray of light. It was not until the neighbor's house turned off the lights that he went to sleep contentedly.

Not long after, another problem occurred: the few books he had had already been read by heart, but he never had the money to buy new ones, so he borrowed them from others who had books, but he often ran into problems. , he began to worry again.

There was a local rich man named "Wen Bu Shi" who had a lot of books at home. Kuang Heng asked someone to introduce him to the Wen family as a long-term worker. When he arrived at Wen's house, he worked hard without paying a penny. The "illiterate" thought it was strange, so he asked Kuang Heng: "Why do you work voluntarily without being paid?"

"I work for you for no other reason than to lend you the book." "I, let me read well." "Wen Shishi" agreed to his request. As soon as Kuang Heng got a wealth of books, he was like a person who hasn't eaten for several days getting delicacies. He read and read greedily and with relish. After reading one volume, he read another.

Over time, he finally became a famous scholar. Extended information

Brief introduction of the main characters:

1. Cheng Menlixue - Yang Shi

When Yang Shi was young, he was smart and studious, good at writing poems and essays, and was known as Known as "Prodigy". He studied Buddhism when he was young and Confucianism when he was young. He was able to compose poems at the age of eight and poems at the age of nine. Get compliments from people. Yang Shi studied in Jiangle Hanyun Temple when he was young. At the age of fifteen, he became famous while studying in Shaowu. At the age of twenty-one, he went to the Ministry of Etiquette examination. The next step is to make up for the students.

After returning home, he studied and lectured at Hanyun Temple. He also wrote "Interpretations of Notes" and "This Day I Will Never Get Again". At the age of twenty-four, he became the number one scholar in Xu Duo's ranking list.

He studied under Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi successively, and together with You Zuo, Lu Dalin and Xie Liangzuo, they were called the four major disciples of Chengmen. Together with Luo Congyan and Li Tong, he is also known as "Mr. Nan Jiansan". In his later years, he lived in seclusion in Guishan, and scholars called him Mr. Guishan.

2. Cutting through walls to steal light - Kuang Heng

Kuang Heng was a native of Cheng County, Donghai County (now Kuangtan Village, Wangzhuang Township, Yicheng District, Zaozhuang City). A Confucian scholar and minister of the Western Han Dynasty, he was famous for his poetry. During the Yuan Dynasty, he became prime minister. The Kuang family has been farming for generations, but Kuang Heng was very studious and hard-working. Due to his poor family background, he had to rely on helping others to finance his studies.

He once studied the Book of Songs with a doctor at that time. Due to his diligent study, he had a very unique and thorough understanding of "Poetry". At that time, Confucian scholars once said, "No one said "Poetry" until Kuang Ding came.

Kuang explained "Poetry" and understood it." He said that listening to Kuang Heng's explanation of the "Book of Songs" can make people relax their brows and feel relaxed, which shows Kuang Heng's deep understanding of the "Book of Songs". But Kuang Heng's official career was not smooth at the beginning. According to the regulations of the Han Dynasty, doctoral students who master one of the "Six Classics" can obtain official positions through examinations. Those who get the A subject in the examination can be doctors, those who get the B subject can be crown princes, and those who get the C subject can only supplement literature. Anecdotes.

Kang Heng took the exam nine times before passing the C subject and was supplemented as the literary graduate of Taiyuan County. However, Kuang Heng's profound understanding of the Book of Songs was highly praised by the classics scholars at that time, and Emperor Yuan, who was the prince at that time, also had a deep impression of him.

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