1. Advantageousness

Su Qin, the word Jizi, was a native of Xuanli, Luoyang, in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (before 317 BC). He was born a peasant, and had great aspirations. He studied with Gigu Zi for many years, and then left his teacher and went down to the mountains to pursue his dream. Later, he left his teacher and went down to the mountains to seek a meritocracy.

Su Qin first returned to his home in Luoyang, sold his family's assets, and then traveled around the world, explaining his political ideas to the rulers of various countries in the hope of fulfilling his political ambitions. But none of them appreciated him, so Su Qin returned to Luoyang in his old clothes and tattered shoes.

Su Qin's family in Luoyang did not give him a good look when they saw him in such a state of despair. Even when Su Qin asked his sister-in-law to cook a meal, she refused to do so, and even reprimanded him severely. Su Qin was then revitalized and studied hard. He hung his hair from a beam and stabbed himself in the leg with an awl, which is how he came to be known as "the head hanging from the beam, the awl stabbing the bone".

A year later, Su Qin grasped the political situation of the time and began to travel around the world for the second time. This time, he finally convinced the six states of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, and Wei to join together to fight against Qin, and he was named "Minister of Zongzhong" and became the prime minister of the six states. When Su Qin returned to his hometown, his relatives changed their attitude, all of them "kneeling and thanking themselves for four times". Su Qin could not help but sigh: "Life in the world, status and wealth, really can not be ignored ah!"

This is the allusion to "arrogance". Today, people often use this to describe those who are arrogant before and humble after, as well as those who see the wind at the helm and act according to the opportunity.

2, Luoyang paper expensive

People often say: since ancient times, Luoyang out of talent. Zuo Si, a famous writer in the Western Jin Dynasty, is one of the stars of the ancient literary world in Luoyang.

Zuo Si was born poor and ugly, but he regarded honor and disgrace as floating clouds, and fame and fortune as dung, and devoted his energy to study and literary creation, and wrote many famous poems that have been handed down to this day. Among them, after the release of "San Du Fu", it was warmly praised by all walks of life in the imperial court and was popular in Luoyang for a while, and the noble families scrambled to copy it, which made the price of paper in the Luoyang market expensive. Later on, "Luoyang paper is expensive" became a famous allusion, often used to praise the rapid and widespread popularity of certain works.

The city of Luoyang in Zuo Si's "San Du Fu" has long been reduced to ruins by the relentless winds and rains of history, while today's city of Luoyang is incomparable to any other time in history. I believe that a thousand years ago, if Zuo Si regenerated on earth, see today's Luoyang, he will have a more beautiful and colorful "San Du Fu" popular Luoyang streets, there will be a new paragraph about the "Luoyang paper expensive" story.

3, Wang Xiang lying on the ice

A long, long time ago, in the old city of Luoyang, twenty-five miles west of the place there is a small river, the small river village lived in a boy named Wang Xiang.

Although Wang Xiang was as dutiful to his stepmother as he was to his birth mother, his stepmother was fine at first, but when she gave birth to a boy, she gradually regarded Wang Xiang as a thorn in her side and a thorn in her flesh.

Stepmother assigned heavy work to Wang Xiang all day long, Wang Xiang, although very hard, but, one out of ten is not good, she either hit or scold, and often in front of Wang Xiang's father to say bad things about him, and over time, the father of Wang Xiang also hate up.

Despite this, Wang Xiang is still as filial to his parents as before.

One winter, Wang Xiang's stepmother got sick, in order to fix Wang Xiang, she deliberately told Wang Xiang's father that she wanted to eat the carp in the river near the village. Wang Xiang heard that the next day to facilitate the cold wind to come to the river. Ten winter weather, the creek on a thick layer of ice, not to mention the footsteps, even with a stone can not be smashed open. How to catch fish? Wang Xiang wearing thin clothes, sitting on the ice and crying.

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He cried for a while, and suddenly found himself under the buttocks of the ice slightly melted a little bit, Wang Xiang took off his clothes and lie down in the ice, and in a while will be frozen numb. Just at this time, suddenly heard the sky rumbling a loud noise, a fire dragon from the sky, lying in the river where Wang Xiang lying ice. The fire dragon spat out fire to the bank of the earth are burning red, the river ice also melted, Wang Xiang was also warmed up, so he carried two carp home.

Wang Xiang's stepmother ate the carp, but did not see any improvement in his condition, and then let Wang Xiang lie on the ice for two times, the condition is even more serious. One night, Wang Xiang's stepmother had a dream, dreamed of a child drilled out of her, said to her: "your son for you to lie on the ice for the fish, but you do not change your nature, all kinds of abuse him, if you continue to go on, so that you can not save your life, if you can change the evil to do good, eat a few yellow finch meat, the disease can be resolved by itself." After saying that, the child disappeared, and the stepmother was awakened by fear. Thinking about how she usually abused Wang Xiang, she felt remorseful and sad. She also saw Wang Xiang wearing thin clothes, lying on the wooden board shivering, they have compassion, busy pull up the quilt, to Wang Xiang cover.