Revelation: Only by studying hard can you achieve something. When a person is young, his family is poor, which looks miserable on the surface, but it is not necessarily a bad thing for ambitious children. Because the family's embarrassment will make children taste the coldness of the world and the hardships of life earlier, and urge children to be sensible and make up their minds early-children from poor families will be in charge early.
Draw the allusion of Di godson:
Ouyang Xiu was born in a feudal official family, and his father Ou Yangxun was a small official. In the fourth year after Ouyang Xiu was born, his father died, so all the burdens of family life fell on Ouyang Xiu's mother Zheng. Seeing that Ouyang Xiu is old enough to go to school, Zheng wants his son to study, but his family is poor and can't afford paper and pens.
Once she saw grass growing on the pond in front of her house, and it suddenly occurred to her that it would be nice to write on the ground with these grass stems. So she took straw as a pen and sand as paper and began to teach Ouyang Xiu to practice calligraphy. Ouyang Xiu followed his mother's instructions and practiced writing on the ground one by one, repeatedly, and wrote again when he made a mistake until he wrote neatly and carefully. This is the story of "painting a godson" handed down from later generations.
Under the education of his mother, young Ouyang Xiu soon fell in love with poetry collections. Write every day, read every day, accumulate more and more, and you can finish reading at a very young age. Ouyang Xiu's father worked as a small official in Daozhou and Taizhou, managing administrative affairs and justice. He cares about the sufferings of the people, is honest and clean, and is deeply loved by the people. After Ouyang Xiu grew up to be an official, his mother often told him about his father's deeds as an official.
Zheng said to his son, when your father was a magistrate, he often handled cases at night. He is very cautious about cases involving ordinary people and has read them over and over again. Anyone who can be given a lighter sentence will be given a lighter sentence; For those who really can't be alleviated, they often express deep sympathy and sigh.
Zheng also said: Your father is an official, honest and selfless, often helping others with property and likes to make friends. Although his official salary is not much, he is often not allowed to have any surplus. He often says not to turn money into a burden. So after his death, he didn't leave a room or a ridge of land.
Zheng also warned his son that it is not necessary to be rich to support his parents, but it is important to have filial piety. Although you can't give your possessions to the poor, you must be benevolent. I have no ability to teach you, as long as you can remember your father's teachings, I will be relieved. These mother's inculcations are deeply imprinted in Ouyang Xiu's mind. Ouyang Xiu's later achievements can not be separated from the teachings of his mother Zheng.