Ouyang Xiu's father died when he was four years old. His family is very poor and there is no money for him to study. His mother painted on the beach with a reed pole and taught him to write. And taught him to read many ancient chapters. When I am old and have no books to read at home, I go to a nearby reader's house to borrow books and sometimes copy them. I can recite the article before I finish copying it. In this way, day and night, sleepless, just concentrate on reading. Poems and essays written since childhood are as high as those written by adults.

Enlightening an individual from a poor family when he was a child may seem tragic on the surface, but it may not be 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, urge children to be sensible and make up their minds early-children from poor families will be in charge early! In reality, some children from wealthy families lack a lot of motivation to learn because they don't have to worry about food and clothing at present, which makes them lack the ideological and character foundation for future achievements.