Source: Biography of Wang Mian written by Song Lian in the early Ming Dynasty. The original excerpt is as follows:

Wang Mian is from Zhuji. When he was seven or eight years old, his father ordered Niu to go to school and sneak into the school to listen to the students' endorsements; Listen to yourself and learn from your memory. Come back at dusk and forget about its cow. Or take a cow to strange fields. Father's anger, again. Mother said, "My son is so stupid that he doesn't listen to anything?" Because the crown is gone, I live by the monk temple. Sneak out at night, sit on the Buddha's lap and read with the ever-burning lamp. There are many earth statues in the Buddha statue, which are hideous and outrageous; Guaner, if you don't see it.

Koreans in Anyang have different personalities. They are recorded as disciples and studied as Confucian scholars. Sexual death, personal crown, in fact. When the crown father dies, wait for the mother to go to town to raise it. After a long time, Simu went back to her hometown and bought a white cow to drive her car, which was taken away by Gu Guan. Village race mask smile, Chu Jun also smile.

Translation:

Wang Mian is from Zhuji County. When he was seven or eight years old, his father told him to go to the field to herd cattle, and he secretly ran into the school to listen to the students. After listening, I always remember it silently. When he came home at night, he forgot all the cows he was grazing. Some people lead cows and scold their cows for trampling on fields and crops. Wang Mian's father was furious and gave Wang Mian a good beating. After the incident, he was still like this. His mother said, "The child is so obsessed with reading, why not let him?" Wang Mian ran away from home and stayed in a temple.

At night, he sneaked out and sat on the Buddha's lap, with a book in his hand, reading by the ever-burning lamp in front of the Buddha. The book rang until dawn. Most of the Buddha statues are clay sculptures, all of which are ferocious and frightening. Child as Wang Mian is, he doesn't seem to see it. Han Xing of Anyang was surprised when he heard about it and accepted him as an apprentice. Later, he became a great scholar.

After Han Xing's death, his disciples served Wang Mian like Han Xing. At that time, Wang Mian's father had died, and Wang Mian took his mother to Yuecheng for retirement. After a long time, my mother missed her hometown, so Wang Mian bought a white cow, carrying her mother, wearing an old hat and old clothes and following the car. The children in the village gathered on both sides of the road to laugh, and Wang Mian also smiled.

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The hero's experience:

Wang Mian is a curious student and a tireless reader. I often go to the temple to study under the ever-burning lamp, and my knowledge is getting deeper and deeper. His studious spirit touched Han Xing, a scholar in Huiji at that time. Han accepted him as an apprentice and taught him to read and draw. Wang Mian was once keen on fame when he was young, but he failed to be admitted to Jinshi. So he was full of resentment and unhappiness, burned articles, wandered around the rivers and lakes, and learned nothing.

He has been to Hangzhou and Jinling, crossed the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, passed through Xuzhou and Jinan to Dadu (now Beijing) and reached Juyongguan. Taking Wan Li Road broadens our horizons and broadens our minds, and at the same time, we have a clearer understanding of social reality and the ruling class. In Beijing, Tai Puhua recommended to teach in the academy. He had a premonition that the Yuan regime was in danger, but he didn't accept it. But returned to the south alone and made a living by selling paintings.