Speaking of the story of "Chiseling the Wall and Stealing the Light", it can be said that it is a household name, not only in the textbooks of childhood, but even when we were not yet enrolled, our parents told us this story. The story is derived from the Xijing Miscellaneous Records, and the original text reads: "Kuang Heng zi zhi Gui, diligent and without candles, neighbors have candles but are not caught." Heng Nai leads its light through the wall, and reads it with the light of the book. ”
It is about the protagonist Kuang Heng, who grew up as a child who loved to read, but his family was poor and could not afford to go to school. Later, after learning to read with his relatives, he wanted to read more books, but unfortunately his family could not afford to buy books, so Kuang Heng had to find someone to borrow books to read. However, books are expensive, many people are reluctant to borrow, Kuang Heng will work for people, do not want to work, just want to be able to borrow a book to read.
When Kuang Heng is a few years older, he can help the family to do farm work, he is the main labor force in the family, so he only has the opportunity to read books when he is resting at noon, but he can only read a little bit every day. Although there is time at night, the family can't afford to buy lamp oil, and Kuang Heng is very anxious about it.
One night, Kuang Heng was still thinking about reading, and suddenly found that there was a glimmer of light on the wall, which turned out to be the light of the neighbor's house, through the gap in the wall. Kuang Heng took a knife and cut a small hole in the wall. Since then, he has used this hole to read books every day through the lights that come through his neighbors.
Kuang Heng, as the protagonist of this story, is definitely worth learning. This story mainly wants to tell us that Kuang Heng is a person who studies hard, is diligent and thrifty, and hopes that we can learn from him, no matter what difficult conditions, do not forget to work hard.
Then we also want to know, Kuang Heng still did not forget to borrow the light to study under such difficult conditions, so did he succeed later? Today we will talk about the protagonist who stole the light from the wall, and what happened later.
Kuang Heng used the lights of his neighbor's house to read carefully every night, but was later discovered by the neighbor. The neighbors did not blame Kuang Heng, but appreciated his hard work and sponsored him to go to school. In the end, Kuang Heng took nine examinations before winning the C section and was supplemented as the literary history of Taiyuan County.
When he first entered the career, it was during the period of Emperor Xuan of Han, and Emperor Xuan of Han did not reuse Kuang Heng. However, Kuang Heng was very close to the crown prince, and after the crown prince ascended the throne, he was the Emperor of Han Yuan, and he promoted Kuang Heng to the rank of doctor and gave it to ShiZhong. With the emperor's appreciation, Kuang Heng can be described as a smooth step, soaring all the way up, and playing an important role in the DPRK.
According to the regulations of the Han Dynasty, doctoral disciples who master one of the "Six Classics" can pass the examination to obtain an official position. In order to pass the examination, Kuang Heng studied the Book of Poetry under the guidance of the doctor at that time. His views on the Book of Poetry are very unique, and hearing that Kuang Heng explains the Book of Poetry often makes people's brows stretch and their mood comfortable. So there was "No Saying "Poetry", Kuang Ding came." Kuang said "poetry", "understanding people".
Emperor Yuan of Han was also particularly appreciative of Kuang Heng because of this, and Kuang Heng often used the Book of Poetry to exhort Emperor Yuan of Han, so he was promoted to Guanglu Doctor and Prince Shaofu. In the third year of Jianzhao, wei Xuancheng died, and Emperor Yuan of Han made Kuang Heng the prince of Xiang and made him the Marquis of Le'an.
Today's Kuang Heng is already under one person, it seems that his suffering as a child was not in vain, so it seems that Kuang Heng is indeed a typical "positive teaching material". However, after becoming a minister, what Kuang Heng did was not so agreeable.
Kuang Heng was enfeoffed with the title of Le'an Hou, and the land should be 310,000 mu, but Kuang Heng took advantage of the loophole in the boundary demarcation to illegally expand more than 40,000 mu of land for himself. It was not until Emperor Hancheng ascended the throne that he was discovered, so someone denounced Kuang Heng, and he was relegated to the rank of Shuren.
He indulged in his son's drunkenness and injury, resulting in his son being imprisoned, and then he concealed his younger son's bribery of officials. After Emperor Hancheng found out, Nian Kuangheng was an old minister and did not dispose of him.
Kuang Heng, along with the eunuch Shi Xian, and the imperial master Zhang Tan, were all once favored by the Han Yuan Emperor, and they also did a lot of bad things together. After the death of Emperor Yuan of Han, Kuang Heng and Zhang Tan joined forces and wrote to impeach Shi Xian, removing him. First, because Shi Xian's alliance with the party engaged in private interests and controlled the government and government, he provoked many enemies. The second Kuang and Zhang both had handles on Shi Xian's hands.
I believe that everyone knows: "Those who commit crimes against strong men will be punished from afar" This sentence came from the mouth of Chen Tang, a general of the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, Chen Tang returned to Beijing after destroying the Xiongnu, and on the way, he gave all the booty he obtained to the soldiers, that is, it was not left to the imperial court.
After returning to the capital, Kuang Heng scolded Chen Tang and then wrote several times to impeach Chen Tang. Emperor Hancheng was originally very embarrassed, but in the end he was still not able to refute Kuang Heng's intentions, so he demoted Chen Tang to the people. Chen Tang suddenly fell from the peak of his life to the bottom, and all the previous credits disappeared.
Kuang Heng studied hard when he was a child, and it was worth everyone's study, but when he grew up, he changed from a positive teaching material to a negative teaching material. Once people have power, it is difficult to maintain the original intention, and it is obvious that Kuang Heng has not been able to adhere to the original intention.
However, we can't deny Kuang Heng's efforts as a child because of what he did later. We know the truth, that is, to take its essence, to remove its dross, to learn the good places, and his later experience is what we should take as a warning.
(References "Xijing Miscellaneous Records", "Book of Han")