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During the Song Dynasty of China, there was a county magistrate named Zhang Guaiya in Chongyang. County At that time, the social climate there was bad and pilferage happened regularly, even the official storage would lose money or things. Therefore, Zhang Guaiya decided to get rid of this bad custom. One day, he has got this chance. When he was passes through the yamun nearby, he saw an obit walking hurriedly of the storage. Then Zhang Guaiya called him in time and inquired,” what are you donging in such a hurry?” “Nothing!” this obit answered. Suddenly he thought of the storage’s theft, and judged that this obit was likely to steal things. Therefore, he ordered his attendant to rummage him. As a consequence, a copper coin was found in his headscarf. So he took him to inquest in the court. Because this obit didn’t confess the fact that how much he had stolen, Zhang Guaiya ordered his servants to torture him. This obit refused to obey and said angrily,” it is nothing to steal a copper coin, and how can you beat me like that? You can not kill me!” After hearing that, Zhang Guaiya got infuriated, picked up his brush and pronounced a sentence of death on him. Why? Because in the eyes of Zhang Guaiya, if he stole a copper coin every day, he would steal 1000 coins after 1000 days, which just like Cutting a wood by sawing with a rope continuously and Constant dropping wears away a stone. From then on, the custom of Chongyang’ theft has been rid of, and its climate got better to a large degree. Later on, this idiom has been used to describe the fact, that is: a constant feeble effort may bring a remarkable success. Now I would like to share another story about myself with you. When I was 8 years old, I attended school and learned to write with my right hand. At first, it was difficult for me to write numbers, so I wrote them badly and disappointedly. My teacher noticed that and told me that you would write well if you practiced writing by yourself. At first, I didn’t believe in myself and gradually I found that I write better and better. Finally, my teacher spoke highly of me in front of my classmates. You can know more about stones and get more information about http://www.stonebtb.com/.
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