Iron bar grinding needle
Li Bai was a famous poet in Tang Dynasty. His poems are magnificent and magnificent, and there are many famous sentences that have been passed down through the ages, which shows his great ambition and broad mind.
In fact, Li Bai was also very naughty when he was a child. Whenever his parents ask him to study, he will excuse those classics and history books as boring and abstruse, then leave the books behind and run out to play with the children.
On this day, Xiao Li Bai went to the village to play again, but he didn't see any other friends. He had to wander around and look around. After a walk, he saw a kind old woman sitting at the door of a family. Little Li Bai came to the old woman and found her sitting on a low stool in front of the grindstone, with a thick iron bar in her hand, grinding around the grindstone, and her expression was focused. Li Bai squatted in front of her and didn't notice.
Xiao Li Bai suddenly became interested. He didn't know what grandma was doing, so he asked curiously, "Grandma, what are you doing with such a big iron bar?"
"Children, I am grinding embroidery needles!" After simply answering Li Bai's question, the old woman bowed her head in a hurry and still carefully ground the iron bar in her hand.
"Are you sharpening the needle?" Little Li Bai was puzzled because he saw that the old woman was grinding a thick iron bar. How could it be a needle? Little Li Bai couldn't help asking, "Granny, the embroidery needle is very, very small, but you are grinding a thick iron bar!" " "
The old woman said without looking up, "Yes, I want to grind this thick iron bar into a fine one."
Embroidered needle "
"What? Do you want to grind this iron bar into an embroidery needle? " Xiao Li Bai has some accidents. He blurted out, "can such a thick iron bar be ground into a needle?" Then when do you want to grind it! "
At this time, the grandmother looked up at Xiao Li Bai kindly and said, "Yes, the iron bar is thick and big, and it is very difficult to grind it into a needle." But I insist on grinding every day, so that one day it will be ground into a needle. Son, as long as you work hard, iron bars can be ground into needles! "
Xiao Li Bai is a child with high understanding. After listening to his grandmother's words, he suddenly understood a lot and thought, "Yes! You can do anything as long as you have perseverance and persist in doing it every day. The same is true of reading. Although there are some places in classics and history books that I can't understand, as long as I insist on reading more and reading every day, I will understand one day. " Thinking of this, Xiao Li Bai was deeply ashamed of his careless learning attitude before, and his face suddenly burned red. So, he began to run home, went back to his study, opened the books he didn't understand, and continued reading.
Philosophical inspiration
Li Bai once said at the back of his "Hundred Poems on Fighting Wine": "If you want to work hard, the stick will be ground into a needle". It can be seen that the talent of this "poet saint" is not born.
This story, which is widely circulated among the people, also illustrates the truth that "genius lies in diligence". We admit that innate differences exist, that is, people have different abilities to accept and understand objective things. However, these only provide a superior condition for people to learn the day after tomorrow. The key to one's success is to study hard in practice. There is a saying: jade does not suffer, and people become wise without learning.