司马迁写《吕不韦列传》,里面记了一段小故事:吕不韦在秦国为相时,号召“人人著所闻,集论以为八览、六论、十二纪,二十余万言。以为备天地万物古今之事,号曰《吕氏春秋》。布咸阳市门,悬千金其上,延诸侯游士宾客有能增损一字者予千金。”这就是后来说的“一字千金”的典故。杜甫说过:“为人性僻耽佳句,语不惊人死不休。”白居易也说过,他自己为了“苦学力文”,“以至于口舌成疮,手肘成胝,既壮而肤革不丰盈,未老而齿发早衰白,瞥瞥然如飞蝇 Sima Qian wrote “Lu Bu Wei Biography”, which remembered a little story: Lv Buwei in the Qin phase, called “everyone heard the smell, set theory that eight, six, twelve, more than twenty thousand words. Preparation of all things in ancient and modern world things, the number of ”Lu’s Spring and Autumn.“ Cloth Xianyang City door, hanging gold on it, the extension of raiders visitors can increase the loss of a person to daughter. ”This is later said,“ the word ” allusion. Du Fu said: “For the human nature secluded sentence, the language is not astonishing death endless.” Bai also said that he himself in order to “study hard Li Wen”, "so that the tongue into a sore, elbows Cheng Yi, Zhuang and leather Not rich, not old and hair loss premature white, glance, such as flying flies