Gong is also proud: he is also proud of this skill.

From Ouyang Xiu's Direct Selling Oil Weng in the Northern Song Dynasty, the original excerpt: Tao.

Su Gongyao of Chen Kang is a sharpshooter, unparalleled in the world, and the public is proud of it. Tasting and shooting in the garden at home, some oil sellers put down their burdens and stood up for a long time. See its arrow nine times out of ten, but a little clumsy.

Translation:

Kang Su Chen Gong Yaozi is good at archery, and no one else in the world can match him. He also boasted about this skill. On one occasion, he was shooting arrows at the archery range at home, and an old man selling oil put down his burden and stood there looking at him sideways for a long time. The old man who sells oil only nodded slightly when he saw that he hit eighty percent of the ten arrows.

Extended data

Creative background:

Chen Yaozi is just short-tempered, but he is decisive. When he was a local official, he paid attention to water conservancy and found it very difficult to drink water in Chang 'an. He organized manpower to dredge the Longshou Canal and solve the problem of people's domestic water use.

In the fourth year of Song Yingzong Pingzhi (1067), Ouyang Xiu was slandered by Fei Yu and asked to go abroad. He wrote this article and recorded a story about Chen Yaozi when he left well-known. Ouyang Xiu wants to express the truth that practice makes perfect through this little thing.