Our understanding of the word "prodigy" is that children's IQ far exceeds their peers. The concept of child prodigy existed in the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest story about child prodigy is Confucius, a child prodigy with three difficulties, which is also the origin of the child prodigy culture.

This well-known story preached a child's alertness, and finally Confucius worshipped him as a teacher. Who is Confucius? Contemporary Confucianism! Therefore, people also highly admire child prodigies and make the child prodigy culture more systematic and extensive. After the Han Dynasty, a large number of prodigies with different versions and experiences emerged, all of whom were children whose IQ crushed others, such as six-year-old Zhang Kan recorded in "Magnolia in Peace" and Duane in "Lei Ju in Art".

"prodigy" has gradually developed into a social group, which stipulates at which specific age stage children with unique qualities can be called prodigies. A child prodigy is not a god and has no special abilities. They are just precocious, smart, precocious and even more reliable than most adults. Prodigy has become a "tool" for adults to compare. Some people don't contribute anything. Just because he can spell dad, someone piled up the image of a prodigy for him with gorgeous words. Examples like this abound.

People expect to cultivate child prodigies, which is also a manifestation of the spirit of pursuing progress. For this "special" group, people expect them and will naturally give them "preferential treatment". Since the Han Dynasty, stone tablets have been erected for prodigies, which people are used to. A child prodigy with a stone tablet shows that someone recognizes that he is indeed a child prodigy. This is a glory and a shackle. They may have a bright future, have the opportunity to show their ambitions and ambitions, or lose something, such as childhood.

Bian Xiao believes that people's definition of a child prodigy is not because they have made any contribution to society, but because this child is outstanding among a bunch of children. People envy and yearn for their own abilities, so they strive to cultivate themselves and train their children into equally excellent people; So in order to become such a person, but when their ability is not enough, they will "strive for" such a reputation. Bian Xiao thinks that the word "prodigy" can be regarded as the condensation of a spirit of pursuing progress.

Maybe prodigies likes himself as a teenager, or maybe they will regret that there is nothing worth cherishing in their childhood.