Li Bai is a famous poet in Tang Dynasty. It is said that when he was young, he was slow to read, and he was impatient. One day, he went out to play, saw an old woman squatting beside the stream, holding an iron bar in the stone mill. Li Bai feel very strange, and asked: "the old woman, what are you doing?" The wife does not return, while grinding her side bar, said: "I am in the grinding needle!" Li Bai strange, asked: "such a bar, can be ground into a needle?" The old woman said: "I wear today, tomorrow will be more iron mill, grinding is fine, even if it is not a grinding needle!" Li Bai listened to her words, my heart like the trick. From then on he worked hard, and she became a literary man.
"Perseverance will prevail" comes from this story. This idiom means that as long as the hard work, will be successful. So people often say: "Little strokes fell great oaks. Zhen."
李白是唐朝有名的'诗人。据说他年轻的时候，读书进步得很慢，他心里就不耐烦起来。有一天，他出门去玩儿，看见一个老婆婆蹲在小溪旁边，拿着一根铁棒在石头上磨。李白觉得很奇怪，就问：“老婆婆，你这是干什么？”老婆婆头也不回，一边磨她的铁棒，一边回答说：“我在磨绣花针！”李白更奇怪了，又问：“这么粗的铁棒，能磨成绣花针吗？”老婆婆说：“我今天磨，明天磨，铁棒只会越磨越细，哪怕它磨不成绣花针！”李白听了老婆婆的话，心里像开了窍。他从此刻苦用功，果然成了一个很有文才的人。
“磨杵成针”就是从这个故事来的。这个成语说明只要下苦功夫，一定能得到成功。所以常有人说：“只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。”
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