Mencius said that when Heaven descends to be responsible to the people of Sri Lanka, they must first suffer their minds, exert their muscles and bones, starve their bodies, empty their bodies, and act in disorder. Therefore, they used to use their heart and patience to do what they could not.

When Li Nan was very young, his teacher and mother told him this story, and let him remember it firmly, to encourage themselves, to fight against unfair fate, and from constant suffering, to know how to make pleasure from suffering, so as to become a real man.

Real men, in the process of growing up, no one is smooth...