睡前故事
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从前，有位老人名叫愚公，快九十岁了。他家门前挡着两座大山，一座叫太行，一座叫王屋，又高又大，一家人出门要绕好远的路。
愚公把全家人召集起来，说：“这两座山挡着咱们的路，太不方便了！咱们一起把它们挖平，怎么样？”
家里人纷纷响应，说干就干。第二天，愚公就带着儿孙们扛起锄头、挑起箩筐，开始挖山、运土。
邻居有个老头，人称智叟，看见了，忍不住笑话愚公：“你都这么大年纪了，连山上的一根草都拔不动，还想搬走两座大山？简直是异想天开！”
愚公听了，不慌不忙，认真地说：“我虽然要死了，可我还有儿子；儿子死了，还有孙子；子子孙孙，无穷无尽。可这两座山呢？只会越挖越少，不会越长越高。总有一天，我们能把它们挖平！”
智叟一听，哑口无言，再也说不出话来。
愚公一家人，从此天天挖山不止，一年又一年，从不停歇。这份坚持，感动了天上的神仙，神仙便派了两位大力士，把两座大山背走了，从此愚公家门前一马平川，出入再也不用绕远路了。
这就是愚公移山的故事。只要坚持不懈，再大的困难也能被克服。
故事告诉宝宝
这个故事告诉我们：
- 坚持不懈，才能完成看似不可能的事。两座大山又高又大，可只要每天挖一点，总有挖完的一天。
- 不要因为事情看起来太难就放弃开始。智叟只看到眼前的困难，愚公却看到了长远的希望。
碰到很大很难的事情，先别急着说“不可能”，只要肯坚持，一步一步来，总有一天能完成。
Bedtime story
Long ago, there was an old man named Yu Gong, nearly ninety years old. Two enormous mountains, Taihang and Wangwu, stood right in front of his house, so tall and wide that his family had to travel a long way around them just to get anywhere. One day, Yu Gong gathered his whole family and announced, "These mountains are blocking our way — it's terribly inconvenient. Let's dig them away, together!"
His family agreed, and the very next day, Yu Gong and his sons and grandsons picked up their shovels and baskets and began digging away at the mountains, carrying off the dirt bit by bit.
A neighbor, known as Wise Old Man, saw this and couldn't help laughing at him. "You're already so old you can barely pull a single blade of grass from the ground," he said, "and yet you think you can move two entire mountains? What a foolish dream!"
Yu Gong wasn't bothered at all. "It's true I'll die one day," he replied calmly, "but I have sons, and my sons will have sons, and on and on, without end. But these mountains? They can only get smaller as we dig — they can never grow any bigger. Someday, surely, we will finish the job." Wise Old Man had no answer to that, and fell silent.
Yu Gong's family kept digging, day after day, year after year, without ever giving up. Their determination moved the gods in heaven, who sent down two mighty giants to carry the two mountains away entirely. From that day on, the road in front of Yu Gong's house was flat and clear, and his family never had to travel the long way around again.
Moral of the story
This story shows how persistence can overcome even the biggest challenges:
- Steady effort can accomplish what seems impossible. The mountains were enormous, but digging a little each day meant the job would eventually be finished.
- Don't give up before you even start just because something looks too hard. Wise Old Man only saw the difficulty in front of him, while Yu Gong saw the long road ahead — and believed in it.
In short: Don't let something looking "too big" stop you from starting — with enough persistence, even mountains can move.
