Vernacular: Ouyang Xiu died when he was four years old. Ouyang Xiu's mother wrote on the sand with a reed pole and taught him to write. He also taught him to read a lot of ancient texts and let him learn to write poems.
And a little longer, the family is poor and there is no book to read, so I borrow it from the scholar's family or copy it. Copying may not be necessary, but I can recite this book.
Vernacular: When I am old and have no books to read at home, I will borrow books from readers nearby and sometimes copy them. You can recite the book before you finish copying it.
Even forget to eat and sleep, but reading is a service. Poetry and prose written since childhood, to adulthood.
Vernacular: I just stay up late, forget all about eating and sleeping, and concentrate on reading. Poetry and prose written since childhood have reached the level of adults.
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Revelation:
1, family education, especially mother's education is the key to children's success. Ouyang Xiu lost his father at the age of four, and his family was poor, so he couldn't afford to read. But his mother still hasn't relaxed her education for her children, which undoubtedly laid a solid foundation for Ouyang Xiu's success and cultivated his good habit of studying hard.
Ouyang Xiu has developed the habit of reading since he was a child. Reading breaks thousands of volumes, and writing is like a god. Throughout the ages, many famous people have become talents through hard study, which is very instructive.
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