In ancient China, people recorded events by writing on bamboo or wooden strips. They used boiled leather thongs threaded through little holes made on those strips to bind them together into a book according to a certain order. According to the Records of the Historian, Confucius avidly read The Book of Changes in his old age. He used the book so often that the leather thongs binding the wooden strips broke three times. Later on, this term is used to describe a person who reads diligently 去书内

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    Reading Note Originated from Confucius’s repeated reading of The Book of Changes, "Wei Bian San Jue" refers to worn leather bindings of bamboo slips. Now it serves as an idiom to praise persistent and diligent study.

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