How did people discover the transparency and mellowness of wine in the white of rice, the red of sorghum, and the purple of grapes?

Legend has it that there were two people who met with the gods by chance, and the gods taught them how to make wine, telling them to choose the rice that was full on the day of Duanyang, and the water of the mountain spring when the ice and snow first melted, blended and poured into the deep and uninhabited place, the pottery urn made of purple sand soil for thousands of years, and then covered with the fresh lotus leaves of the first morning sun in early summer, and sealed for forty-nine days, until the rooster crowed three times, before it could be opened.

Like every legendary hero, they went through a lot of hardships, found all the materials, reconciled and sealed their dreams together, and then waited for that moment.

What a long wait. The forty-ninth day finally came, and the two of them could not sleep all night, waiting for the sound of the rooster crowing. In the distance, the first rooster crowed, and after a long time, a second sound was faintly heard. When will the third rooster crow? One of them could not hold back any longer, and he opened his urn and was stunned, a puddle of water in it, as sour as vinegar. The mistake had been made irreparable, and he spilled it on the ground in disappointment.

And the other one, although he couldn't hold back and wanted to stretch out his hand, still gritted his teeth and persevered until the rooster crowed three times. What a sweet and clear wine! Since then, the difference between "wine" and "sprinkling" is only in the seemingly very ordinary side.

And many successful people, the difference between them and losers is often not opportunity or smarter minds, but only that the successful person persevered for a moment more———sometimes a year, sometimes a day, sometimes, just a rooster crow.

Hold on and success is at your feet. Persistently challenge setbacks until the final success. Let the pressure be your motivation to race to the finish line. A desperate situation is a challenge and an opportunity. Just persevere, and one day you will succeed. Countless failures make a brilliant life. I would like to use the well-known story of Lincoln to once again illustrate the not-so-profound truth here.

In 1832, Lincoln was unemployed, which obviously saddened him, but he was determined to become a politician and a state legislature. Unfortunately, he lost the election. Suffering two blows in one year, it was undoubtedly painful for him. Lincoln then set out to start his own business, but within a year, the business went out of business. For the next 17 years, he had to travel and endure hardships to pay off the debts he owed when the company collapsed.

Lincoln then decided to run for state legislature again, and this time he succeeded. A glimmer of hope sprung up in him. Thinking that his life had taken a turn for the better, he said to himself: Maybe I can make it!

In 1835 he was engaged. But a few months before the wedding day, his fiancée unfortunately died. It was so traumatic to him that he was so exhausted that he was bedridden for months. In 1836, he became ill with a nervous breakdown.

In 1838, Lincoln felt well and decided to run for state legislature, but he failed. In 1843, he ran again for the United States Congress, but this time he was still unsuccessful. Lincoln tried again and again, but failed again and again: his business collapsed, his lover died, and he lost his campaign. If you were to do all this, would you give up? Giving up these things that are important to you?

But Lincoln didn't give up, and he didn't say: What if you fail?

In 1846 he ran again for Congress, and he ran for Congress again, and was finally elected. The two-year term passed quickly, and he decided to seek re-election. He believes that his performance as a member of Congress has been excellent, and he believes that voters will continue to elect him. But unfortunately, he was defeated.

Because he lost a lot of money in this campaign, Lincoln applied to become a land officer in the state. But the state government returned his application, stating that your application failed to meet the requirements of extraordinary ability and extraordinary intelligence required to be a land officer in the state.

Two more failures in quick succession. Will you keep trying? Will you say, "I failed?"

Lincoln, however, did not admit defeat. In 1854 he ran for the Senate but failed, two years later he ran for the vice presidential nomination of the United States, only to be defeated by his opponent, and two years later he ran again for the Senate and failed. However, Lincoln has never given up on his pursuit, and he has always been the master of his own life. In 1860, he was elected President of the United States.

In fact, we should understand that if you persevere, success is at your feet If a person wants to do any big thing, he must be able to persevere, and perseverance can achieve success. Speaking of which, it may not be difficult for a person to overcome a little difficulty, but it is rare to be able to persevere until the end of the day.

Emily Brontë, the author of the famous British novel "Jane Eyre", once said meaningfully: People live for the sake of hardship. There will definitely be all kinds of pressures in a person's life, so there is always a torment in the heart, but this is the real life.

Indeed, she is right, a person will be light if there is no pressure, and there will definitely be no action without pressure. Choose pressure, insist on rushing forward, and you can achieve yourself. You might as well try again, there are many times in life when "another village is spent in the willows". In the process of growing up, especially in childhood, I suffered too much criticism, blows and setbacks from the outside world, so my enthusiasm and desire to strive for progress were suppressed and blocked by "self-imposed limitations", and I did not receive timely guidance, relief and encouragement. Not only are they afraid of failure, but they are also accustomed to failure, lose confidence and courage, and gradually develop a spirit of narrow-mindedness, inferiority, isolation, fear of responsibility, lack of progress, and dare not fight, thus losing their dreams.

The most obvious manifestation of such a character in life is to go with the flow and have no purpose in life. The innate spark of success was extinguished prematurely. Past failure does not mean eternal failure, once unattainable goals do not mean that you will never be able to achieve, you can have your own dreams, you can set a goal for your life. If you choose the future, then you are a child of God, and if you choose the past, you may still be an outcast.

I think the past can determine the present, but it definitely can't determine the future. Your goals are set for the future, and you are making choices for your own future. The past is not equal to the future. Your success in the past does not mean that you will succeed in the future, and if you do not fail in the past, it does not mean that you will fail in the future. The success or failure of the past only represents the past, and the future is determined by the present.

What to do now. What you choose determines what the future will be! Those who fail should not be discouraged, and those who succeed should not be proud. Neither success nor failure is the end result, it is just an event in the course of life. Therefore, there will be no people in this world who will always succeed, and there will be no people who will always fail. In our daily life, a desperate situation is a challenge, an opportunity, if you are not intimidated, but strive for, maybe you will create a transcendence of yourself. The key is whether you have persistence, persistence and persistence.

On the road of life, everyone is eager to succeed and afraid of failure, but not everyone will succeed. Treat success and failure, just with a different mentality. A small grass may never be a towering tree, but it can be the greenest and strongest grass; A drop of water may never be able to rush like the Yangtze River, but it can become the purest drop of all water. When dealing with success and failure, you might as well face it with an open-minded attitude.

On the road of life, everyone will inevitably have the experience of failure. Failure is the destruction of valuable things for others to see; Success is to package valuable things for people to see. The secret of success is not to be afraid of failure and not to forget failure. Those who succeed come out of the purgatory of failure. Success and failure go on and on, making for a wonderful life. The verdict of success and failure is not at the beginning, but at the end.

In life, as long as you go through it steadfastly and struggle, it is enough to be worthy of your heart. There's no need to decorate your mind too much. The vicissitudes of life on the surface and the seriousness on the outside do not make you rise to the rank of a philosopher; Without all your friends, all you have is a lonely back. Maybe you can't be deep right now, so you make it easy for yourself. How can a person with a weeping face hear the sound of a flower blooming? How can a person who disguises himself understand the excitement of a frog's song?

There's no need to cry over a small setback. Life is full of ups and downs, how can a pearl oyster without trauma have a sparkling and charming crystal? It is a common thing to fall a few times and fall a few times. If you have never capsized in the gutter, your life must be pale and will never be vivid. If you lose, you can start all over again, and if you win, you can ram the foundation under your feet. A selection of 14 years of long inspirational articles

There is no need to put the sentence: "The sunset is infinitely good, but it is just near dusk" The eternal swan song repeatedly tastes bitterness and sadness. As long as you work hard, you will be seen in all corners of the world. Although this world is a little cold, as long as you are willing, you can use your meager strength to give every friend who feels cold a warmth and a ray of light.

Don't always look at your past with a sad eye. The past is gone, and the past is forever history. No matter how glorious you were in the past, no matter how happy you were in the past, no matter how small you were in the past, how sad you were in the past! With the passage of time, all of this has been diluted by the years of history, and even vanished. The only thing left is a faint memory.

Don't show off your past accomplishments, and don't grieve the past. Because, that would only increase the heavy burden on the mind. Perhaps, occasionally lamenting one's past is a reasonable psychological vent. But sometimes, if you think too much, it will become painful, and you will live in a sea of misery all day long. So, instead of spending time reminiscing about the past, use it to think about how to wisely grasp the present under your feet.

Yesterday is in the past, tomorrow is not yet here, and the most important thing is today. Shakespeare once said this philosophical saying: "Life is too short, and if you waste it, it is too long!" Isn't this a vivid illustration of the truth that you can't waste your life? If you have understood, should you let go of the past and open your heart to accept the reality? Should you also devote yourself to doing your own thing?

A successful life is not about how much you have achieved but what you have done, so when you see a dense forest, you only need to be one of the tall trees without shame; When you see the galloping Yangtze River, you only hope to be a drop of crystal in the waves; Seeing the endless blue sky, you only want to be a peaceful one of the clouds. Although it is a tree, it can resist wind and rain, although it is a drop, it can moisten the seedlings, and although it is a flower, it can dress up the blue sky. Such a life is enough.

Laughed at success or failure, and moved forward in style. Life is full of uncertainties, and we don't know where we will be in the next minute. So, don't let your heart be too tired, be simple, be happier, watch the flowers bloom and fall, listen to the murmuring of the water, cherish every day of life, and live calmly and happily!