What prodigies were there in ancient times?

In fact, there were many prodigies in ancient China. For example, the following are prodigies.

1. Fang Zhongyong.

Fang Zhongyong is really a child prodigy. He is a prodigy without any training.

Fang Zhongyong didn't learn calligraphy or anything like that when he was a child. One day, he suddenly asked his father for a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and improvised four sentences to prove his talent.

From then on, my father discovered his untapped poetic talent and shaped him into a child prodigy. Of course, Fang Zhongyong also deserves this name.

But it didn't last long. In the next few years, Fang Zhongyong had no talent for learning and training at all, and his poems became more and more ordinary, and finally he became an ordinary person. This also shows the importance of education.

2. Cao Chong.

When we were young, when we were in Chinese class, we should have learned the story of Cao Chong's image, in which the hero Cao Chong was a child prodigy.

When Cao Chong was a child, Sun Quan once sent a giant elephant to Cao Cao. Looking at such a big elephant, Cao Cao certainly wanted to know how much it weighed, so he had to find a way to know the weight of the elephant.

But it is so huge, and it is a creature, a whole. How can I weigh it out at once? Cao Cao's men kept staring at each other, and there was nothing they could do.

At this time, Cao Chong, who was only five or six years old, stood out. He used a very clever method, that is, let the elephant stand on the boat, record the draft of the boat, then replace the elephant with stones, and then replace the elephant with stones to reach the same draft, and then weigh the stones to get the weight of the giant elephant.

According to our modern proper nouns, this is called equivalent substitution. As an ancient man thousands of years ago, Cao Chong could think of this method, not a child prodigy. ?