The story and implication of "giving up halfway" In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a virtuous woman in Henan County. People don't know her name, only know that she is the wife of Le Yangzi.
One day, Le Yangzi found a piece of gold on the road and gave it to his wife when he got home. The wife said: "I heard that ambitious people don't drink the water of the' stolen spring' because its name is disgusting;" I would rather starve to death than eat the food given by others. What's more, pick up other people's lost music. This will tarnish the character. " Le Yangzi was ashamed of his wife's words, so he threw the gold into the wild and went far away to find a teacher to learn.
A year later, Le Yangzi returned. His wife knelt down and asked him why he went home. Le Yangzi said, "I have been homesick for a long time, and there is no other reason." After listening to this, the wife went to the loom with a knife and said sternly, "The silk woven by this loom is made of silkworm cocoons and woven on the loom. A little at a time, only one inch long; Inch by inch, you will get a job, even a horse. If I cut it off today, all my previous efforts will be in vain, and the previous time will be in vain. "
The wife went on to say, "The same is true of reading. When you accumulate knowledge, you should acquire new knowledge every day, so as to improve your conduct day by day. If you leave halfway, what's the difference with cutting silk? "
Le Yangzi was deeply moved by his wife's words, so he went to finish his studies and didn't go home for seven consecutive years.
Moral: If we give up halfway every time we do something, then we will definitely not succeed in doing anything in the end. Only by sticking to the end and completing one thing at a time can we move forward step by step and go further and further on the road to victory. If you set a goal, you must dare to practice and work hard to accomplish it. It is wrong to dream only, and it is also wrong to give up halfway.
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Giving up halfway, one of China's ancient allusions, comes from the Book of Rites The Doctrine of the Mean by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty: "If a gentleman follows the Tao and gives up halfway, I will certainly do it." Later it was transformed into an idiom. The original meaning is that the road stops halfway, which means that the cause stops before it is finished, and you can't start from the beginning to the end. With a derogatory connotation.