Where there is a will, there is a way.(yǒu zhì zhě shì jìng chéng)

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Where there is a will, there is a way. It is a Chinese idiom. Its pronunciation is y ǒ UZH ì zh ě sh ì J ì ngch é ng, which means that people with ambition will succeed in the end. It tells us that in life we should strive, struggle, and forge ahead in the wind and rain. It comes from the biography of gengyan in the later Han Dynasty.

If there is a will, there must be a way (the way of success), that is, where there is a will, there is a way.

Source of allusion

Lao gengyan in Linzi (Liu Xiu) in the biography of gengyan (Y ǎ n) in the book of the later Han Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty: "the general was in Nanyang in front of him. He always thought that it was difficult to make a good plan. If he had a will, he would succeed. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Geng Yan was a famous general under Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty. Once, Liu Xiu sent him to attack Zhang Bu, a local power, and the battle was very fierce. Suddenly, Geng Yan's thigh was hit by a flying arrow. He took out his sword and cut off the arrow. Then he continued to fight. Finally Geng Yan defeated the enemy. Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty praised Geng Yan. He said to him with emotion: "when the general was in Nanyang, he proposed to attack Zhangbu and pacify Shandong. At the beginning, he thought the plan was too big and worried that it would be difficult to realize. Now I know that people with ambition can succeed in the end. " the sentence "where there is a will, there will be a way". Later, it is often quoted as an idiom - "where there is a will, there will be a way." In the biography of gengyan in the history of the later Han Dynasty and Shanxi daily (2004-08-2305:41:59), Yu Shiming Yan recorded the couplet of the Title Study: where there is a will, there is a way. If you break the bridge and sink the boat, the Qin pass will belong to Chu. If you work hard, you will be able to endure the hardships of heaven, and if you stay on your feet, you will be able to swallow Wu. Hu Jiyuan was born in the Ming Dynasty. His life story is unknown. because "where there is a will, there is a way". It is a good way to express the truth of life and teach people to have ambition and persevere. Therefore, people today use this famous sentence to name their descendants "Zhicheng" and hope for a better future, such as Wang Zhicheng.

Similar cases

Chen Sheng, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty, was born in poverty. When he was young, he was employed in the countryside to farm for others. At that time, he was determined to do great things in the future. His fellow employees all laughed at him. They thought that the lower class who cultivated for others wanted to do a great job. It was really a toad who wanted to eat swan meat. Seeing that his ambition could not be understood by some short-sighted people, Chen Sheng sighed: "the sparrow knows the ambition of the swan!" That is to say, little Finch, it is impossible to know swan's ambition. later, Chen Sheng finally became the leader of the peasant uprising army, and he was the first to fight against the Qin Dynasty. In his youth, Lu Xun studied medicine in Sendai Medical College, hoping to save the country with medicine. The school shows movies, sometimes interspersed with some current affairs slides. Once a documentary about the Russo Japanese war was shown. Many Chinese people gathered around a Chinese who was said to be a Russian spy. This man would behead and show to the public. People around him were watching. On the screen, the audience was physically strong and mentally numb. Lu Xun was deeply stimulated, and his heart was very painful. He deeply felt that studying medicine was not an important thing at present. Even though people with stupid thinking and numb spirit were strong, they could only be shown to the public or as visitors. The most important thing is to change their spirit, and literature and art are good at changing their spirit. Therefore, he resolutely abandoned medical literature. Finally, he became a great writer, thinker, pioneer and standard bearer of cultural movement. Sima Qian wrote historical records in anger. Because he defended a general, Sima Qian offended Emperor Hanwu and was imprisoned and tortured. Sima Qian was filled with grief and indignation. He wanted to splash blood on the wall several times, and he lost his life. But the thought that the historical records had not yet been completed gave up the idea. He buried his shame and pain in the bottom of his heart. He spread out the smooth bamboo slips again and wrote neat lines on them. In this way, Sima Qian wrote angrily. It took 14 years to finish his 520000 word masterpiece historical records. Fan Zhongyan studied hard and his younger brother Fan Zhongyan lived in poverty and studied poetry hard. He often cooked a basin of porridge in winter. After it was frozen, he cut it in half with a knife and ate it in two meals with pickled vegetables. Finally, he became a famous official in the Northern Song Dynasty. Shen Gua went up to the mountain to see the peach blossom. When he read this poem, Shen Gua's eyebrows condensed into a knot: "why do the peach blossom on the mountain begin to bloom when all the flowers fail?"? In order to solve this mystery, Shen Kuo asked some of his friends to go up the mountain for a field trip. In April, the mountain was warm and cold. The cold wind came and made Shen Kuo shiver. The temperature on the mountain was much lower than that at the foot of the mountain, so the flowering season came later than that at the foot of the mountain. With this kind of searching spirit and empirical method, Shen Kuo wrote Mengxi Bi Tan when he grew up. Li Guizhen, a famous tiger painter of the Five Dynasties, liked painting since he was a child, especially tiger painting. However, because he had never seen a real tiger, he always painted it as a sick cat, so he decided to go into the mountains and forests to visit the real tiger. After a lot of hardships, with the help of Uncle hunter, he finally met the real tiger. After a lot of sketching and copying, his tiger painting skills were outstanding Flying forward, the tiger in the pen is lifelike, and it is almost true. From then on, he spent most of his life traveling many famous mountains and rivers, seeing more birds and beasts, and finally became a master of painting. Helen Keller Helen Keller is blind and deaf, but she works hard to change from a sympathetic little girl to a respected strong woman all over the world. If life is really unfair, then life is extremely unfair to her. She was able to give up her dream and cry in a dark corner. No one would blame her. She was also able to lie in bed or sit in a wheelchair and be served like a vegetable. But all this, she did not do, she just hard in the teacher's help to learn blind language, touch things, just with her never give up faith and perseverance. She painted the sky of her dream with the brightest color of life.

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