When Zhou Enlai was a teenager, he left his hometown Zhao 'an County, Jiangsu Province, and went to Dongguan Model School. On this day, President Wei personally gave the students a self-cultivation class entitled "Life". At that time, it was a period of dramatic social changes in China. When the headmaster talked about "making a living", he told the students how to aspire to it. President Wei suddenly stopped talking about highlights. Question: Why do students study? At that time, someone replied, "study for fame and fortune." Others replied: "study and be an official."
Zhou Enlai replied loudly: "Learn for the rise of China!" President Wei praised: "Where there is a will, there is a pupil!" At that time, Zhou Enlai was only 12. A resounding oath and a lofty ambition inspired our beloved Prime Minister to fight for it all his life. It is precisely because of this great ideal that he devoted himself to national independence and national rejuvenation.
2. Lu Xun's "Abandoning medicine to follow literature-changing due to social reality"
When Mr. Lu Xun studied in Japan in his early years, he originally studied medicine. However, during the study in Sendai Medical College, the Japanese were beheaded and turned into Russian detectives on the documentary of the Russo-Japanese War between classes, and the dead and onlookers were numb. This made Lu Xun realize: "The first thing is to change their spirit." So Lu Xun made up his mind to give up medicine and become a great thinker, revolutionary and writer in modern China.
3. "Chen Ping's Humiliating Reading"
Chen Ping was famous in the Western Han Dynasty. When he was young, his family was poor and he lived alone with his brother. In order to maintain his father's orders, he was brilliant, childless and studied behind closed doors, but he could not get his sister-in-law's permission. In order to eliminate the contradiction between brother and sister, he endured humiliation again and again. With the intensification of his sister-in-law, he finally ran away from home and wanted to travel around the world. After being rescued by his brother, he no longer cared about the past. Finally, an old man came here to teach for free. After he finished his studies, he assisted Liu Bang and achieved great success.
4. "Kuang Heng poached and stole the light"
In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a particularly learned man named Kuang Heng. When Kuang Heng was a child, his family was poor. In order to study, he chiseled through the wall of his neighbor's illiterate home and stole a candle to read, which finally touched his neighbor's illiteracy. With everyone's help, Kuang Heng Jr. learned something. During the Han and Yuan Dynasties, he served as a doctor, and was recommended by Shi Gao, a general of Fu and Che Qi, and moved to be a doctor.
5. Ban Chao's "Joining the Army-Changed by Social Reality"
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a famous man named Ban Chao. He was ambitious since he was a child and determined to do something for his country. In 62 AD (the fifth year of Han Yongping), his younger brother Ban Gu was ordered to work as a school librarian in Luoyang, and he and his mother also went there together. Because of the hard life, Ban Chao had to copy documents for the court, and he was busy from morning till night every day, and the reward he got was only to make ends meet.
One day, when Ban Chao was copying documents, he thought of his ambition and was very excited. He couldn't help but suddenly throw his brush on the ground, sighed and said, "Even if one has no other great ambitions, one should learn from Zhang Qian and make contributions in foreign exchanges in order to gain fame. In the process of many missions to the western regions, Ban Chao took only a few people, overcame many difficulties with his courage and wisdom, and made important contributions to strengthening the political, economic and cultural ties between the Han Dynasty and the western countries and ancient Rome, and was named Dingyuan Hou. Ban Chao stayed in the Western Regions for more than 30 years, and only when he became emperor did he return to China because of his age.