8岁时,林语堂说长大后要当作家,他偷偷写了一本教科书,一页是课文,隔一页是插图,后来被大姐发现了,全家的兄弟姐妹都能背诵其中的一首诗:“人自高,终必败;持战甲,靠弓矢。而不知,他人强;他人力,千百倍。” At the age of 8, Lin Yutang said that when he grew up to become a writer, he secretly wrote a textbook, one is a text, every other is an illustration, was later discovered by the eldest sister, the whole family can recite one of the brothers and sisters of the poem : “Man arrogant, will eventually defeat; holding armor, bow by arrow .I do not know, others strong; his manpower, a hundredfold.”