Many people in history who are called prodigies, or who have achieved great achievements in the future, often show intelligence and cleverness that are different from ordinary people when they are young. If you are talented and have the acquired cultivation of the family, the possibility of becoming a talent will be greatly increased. Talented children even have different ways of living expenses than ordinary children, and today we will tell such a story.
Huang Yunhu was a famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty and had a family history. As a descendant of the Northern Song Dynasty writer Huang Tingjian, Huang Yunhu also loved literature very much in his life, and from an early age, he worked hard to read and read poetry books, determined to be an elite for the country and the people in the future. Born in 1819, Huang Yunhu passed the Jinshi examination in the third year of Xianfeng (1853) and began to enter his career.
Huang Yunhu was good at poetry, which was more like his ancestors, and also like Su Dongpo, a literary hero in the Northern Song Dynasty; however, his attitude towards officials was more like that of another Famous Northern Song Dynasty minister, Bao Zheng, because he was not afraid of the magnates, acted fairly and honestly, Huang Yunhu won the praise of the people, everyone said that he could be comparable to Bao Gong, and they called him "Huang Qingtian".
It is conceivable that such a person will not have much savings in the family. Although he became a member of the Erpin Commandery of the Qing Dynasty, he was eventually expelled from Beijing, and his position became lower and lower, so he simply resigned and returned to his hometown of Puchun County, Hubei Province, and began to specialize in learning. But the family still had to eat, so Huang Yunhu, with the help of friends, went to teach in other places to earn some money to supplement the family.
In Huang Yunhu's family, his wife bore him a son named Huang Kan. Huang Kan later became a famous philologist and was known as the "Master of Traditional Chinese Studies", and all this was not only the influence of his mentor Zhang Taiyan, but also inseparable from the words and deeds of his father Huang Yunhu. Huang Kan inherited his family studies, and at a young age, he was quick in his thinking, brilliant in intelligence, and loved to read.
At that time, Huang Yunhu was not at home, and her mother lived alone with Xiao Huang Kan. Once, Huang Yunhu did not send money back in time, the mother calculated the family's expenses, felt that it was necessary to ask her husband for some money to survive, so she asked Huang Kan to ghostwrite and write a letter to his father, the content of the letter was to live expenses. At that time, Huang Kan was just a 7-year-old child.
Huang Kan thought about it for a while, wrote a small poem about what he wanted to say, and sent it to his father in the distance. Moreover, when Huang Yunhu received this letter, his friend Wang Dingcheng, who served as a political envoy in Shanxi, was nearby, so he also saw this small poem written by Huang Kan: "The father is a salt plum order, and the family is indifferent to the wind." Reconcile the world's plans, and let the shafts be left empty? ”
Wang Dingcheng was greatly surprised to see it, and felt that this poem was really well written, and there was not a single word mentioning money in the whole article, but it euphemistically stated his meaning. He couldn't wait to ask Huang Yunhu, who wrote this poem? Huang Yunhu replied that it was his own dog, and Wang Dingcheng was amazed, and asked Huang Kan's age, saying that he was a child prodigy.
He proposed to Huang Yunhu on the spot that he wanted to marry his daughter Wang Caiyu to Huang Kan, because "Ling Lang has talent and is a good son-in-law." Of course, Huang Yunhu gladly agreed, so the two families changed from old friends to children's relatives, and Huang Kan, who was only 7 years old, used his talent to convince his future father-in-law, not only gained a wife, but also successfully got to the living expenses, and this interesting thing was also passed down.