我以前曾看过晚清学者俞樾写的这样一个故事:有位富翁的儿子问老师:“‘一’字怎么写?”老师说:“一划。”“‘二’字怎么写?”老师说:“二划”。“‘三’字怎么写?”老师说:“三划”。他恍然大悟:“原来天下的字是这样一划一划地连下去的!”这时,他父亲正好要聘请一位能抄抄写写的人,他连忙阻止:“何必要花钱雇人呢?这事儿我完全可以干好。”他父亲听了当然很高兴。一天,他父亲要他写请柬请一位娃万的人来做客,等了好久.他也没写好。他父亲几次派人催他, I have read the story of a late Qing scholar Yu Yong written by a son of a rich man who asked: “How to write a word?” The teacher said: “A stroke.” The teacher said: “two plans.” “How to write ’three’?” The teacher said: “Three plans.” He suddenly realized: “The original words of the world go on like this!” His father, on the other hand, just hired a man who could copy and write, and he quickly stopped: “Why pay for hire? I can do a good job at all. ”Of course his father was glad to hear it. One day, his father asked him to write an invitations to invite a million people to visit, waiting for a long time .He did not write well. Several times his father sent reminders to him,