The story of Fang Zhongyong.

In ancient times, there was a child named Fang Zhongyong who was born in a peasant family. His family has been farmers for generations, and no one can read. He is five years old and has never seen paper, ink, pen or inkstone. But one day, Fang Zhongyong suddenly cried and asked for paper and ink from home, saying that he wanted to write poetry. His father was very surprised and immediately borrowed pens and ink from his neighbors. Fang Zhongyong picked up a pen and wrote four poems, and also wrote a title for them.

Several scholars in the same village knew about this matter and came to Fang Zhongyong's house to see it. They agreed that he wrote well. So it spread quickly, so people called him "prodigy". Because Fang Zhongyong's poems are well written and well conceived, as long as he specifies a topic, he can write a poem immediately.

So, many people want to go and have a look, and they invite him and his father to their home, give a banquet and treat them, and specify a topic for Fang Zhongyong to write poems on the spot. Fang Zhongyong's father thought it was very beautiful, so he was very willing to accept the invitation. He often took Fang Zhongyong to visit dignitaries and attend various banquets to show off his son's talent, but he never let Fang Zhongyong learn from his master and spend more time reading and studying.

In this way, as the days passed, Fang Zhongyong grew up day by day, but his talent remained at the level of five years old without any progress. When he was twenty years old, he was no different from other children of his age. The prodigy disappeared.

Extended data:

The story comes from the prose Shang by Wang Anshi, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. This article tells the story of a prodigy named "Fang Zhongyong" in Jinxi, Jiangxi Province, who was reduced to an ordinary person because his father refused to let him study, and was used as a tool to make money by his father.

Taking Zhong Yong as an example, this paper warns people not to learn new knowledge, never to rely solely on talent, but to pay attention to the education and learning after tomorrow, and emphasizes the importance of education and learning after tomorrow to success. This article is concise and profound, and its reasoning is rigorous.

Creative background:

In the third year, Fang Zhongyong began to write poems without a teacher, which shocked the whole village. In the second year of Ming Dow, Wang Anshi, the same age as Fang Zhongyong, followed his father back to Shanxi to visit relatives and met Fang Zhongyong at his uncle's house. He asked Fang Zhongyong to write some poems, but he was disappointed because the "child prodigy writer" was not as clever as the legend.

In the first year of Kangding, Wang Anshi visited relatives in Jinxi again. At this time, Fang Zhongyong became a farmer again. In the third year, Wang Anshi returned to Linchuan from Yangzhou, thinking of what had happened, and wrote the article "On".

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