Iron bars are ground into needles(tiě bàng mó chéng zhēn)

Iron bars are ground into needles

Metaphor as long as there is perseverance, perseverance, do anything can be successful. The same as "grinding a pestle into a needle".

Idioms and allusions

[source]: Chapter 10 of yellow Hydrangea ball by Yi Suo of Qing Dynasty: "it seems that the development is late, but the effect is the fastest."

Discrimination of words

[pinyin code]: tbmz [synonym]: grinding a pestle into a needle [usage]: used as object, attribute and clause; used to admonish people [story]: Li Bai, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, never studied seriously when he was a child and often threw books out to play. One day, Li Bai met a white haired old woman who was grinding a big iron bar on a stone. She was curious and asked her what she was doing. The old woman told him to grind it into an embroidery needle. Li Bai was deeply moved. From then on, he studied hard and finally became a literary magnate. Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, read the classics and history books when he was young. They were very profound. He couldn't understand them for a moment, so he felt bored. So he left the books and played truant. As he wandered around, he looked around. He saw an old woman sitting on a low stool on a grindstone, with a thick iron bar in her hand, grinding up and down on the grindstone, with an expression of concentration, so that Li Bai squatted down in front of her that she didn't notice. Li Bai didn't know what granny was doing, so he asked curiously, "Granny, what are you doing?" "Sharpen the needle." Without raising her head, she simply answered Li Bai, still grinding the iron bar in her hand seriously. "Sharpen the needle?" Li Bai didn't understand that the old woman was wearing a thick iron bar. How could it be a needle? Li Bai couldn't help asking again: "grandma, the needle is very small, and what you are grinding is a thick iron bar!" The old woman said while grinding, "I'm just going to grind this iron bar into a small needle." "what?" Li Bai was a little surprised. He blurted out and asked, "can such a thick iron bar be ground into a needle?" At this time, the old woman raised her head, looked at little Li Bai kindly and said, "yes, the iron bar is thick and big. It's very difficult to grind it into a needle. But I keep grinding every day. One day, I will grind it into a needle. Child, as long as you work hard, an iron bar can be ground into a needle Li Bai was a child with high understanding when he was young. After listening to his grandmother's words, he suddenly understood a lot and thought, "yes! As long as you have perseverance and persist in doing things every day, you can accomplish anything. It's the same with reading. Although there are some things you don't understand, as long as you keep reading more and read everyday, you will always understand. " Thinking of this, Li Bai felt deeply ashamed, and his face became feverish. So he ran home, went back to his study, opened the books he didn't understand and continued to read. another: the old woman said her surname was Wu, and now she has "Wu's rock".

Chinese PinYin : tiě bàng mó chéng zhēn