我们经常用“笔耕不辍”来形容人勤奋写作。旧时文人以给人抄抄写写为生,自谓“笔耕”——意思是抄写工作跟农夫耕田一样辛苦。这个典故出自《后汉书》。东汉的班超,年轻时就有为国立功的抱负,因为没有机会,所以未能施展才华。有一年,他的哥哥班固被汉明帝召到洛阳去做校书郎。 We often describe people as diligent in their writing. The old literati made a living by copying, copying, and writing. It meant to say “pen cultivating,” which meant that the copying work was as hard as the ploughing of the farmer. This allusion is from the Later Han Dynasty. When Chao Chao of the Eastern Han Dynasty was young, he had the ambition of Guo Gong. Because he had no chance, he was unable to display his talent. One year, his brother Ban Gu was summoned to Luoyang by Han Mingdi as his schoolmate.