What kind of person is Sima Guang who smashed the jar to save his little friend? In ancient times, many people who were famous as children were not so famous when they grew up. What happened to Sima Guang when he grew up?
Before talking about Sima Guang's growth, let's get to know him through another thing he did when he was a child! It is said that it is difficult to change the character developed as a child at the age of three. When many people evaluate Sima Guang, they will label him as "honest". This is because Sima Guang did something that made him blush when he was young.
He should be five or six years old at that time, because he wants to eat walnuts and doesn't want to peel them. His sister tried to help him, but failed and had to walk away silently. Later, a maid in the government went to peel walnuts for Xiao Sima Guang. When my sister came back, she asked Sima Guang, "Who helped you peel walnuts?" Sima Guang looks good and says he did it himself. Sima Guang's father was there at that time. Knowing that Sima Guang would not peel walnuts, he immediately became angry and said loudly, "How dare you lie to me!" " Sima Guang's lies were exposed and he blushed with embarrassment. Since then, he has never cheated anyone.
In order to remember this lesson, Sima Guang deliberately recorded it when he grew up, took a look from time to time and warned himself to be honest.
Sima Guang practiced the word honesty all his life and treated his feelings more seriously than ordinary people. The Northern Song Dynasty, where Sima Guang lived, was an era of pursuing extravagance. Many families with a little money and status have to marry several concubines and raise several beautiful prostitutes. This phenomenon can be called the fashion of their time, but Sima Guang didn't take concubines or keep prostitutes outside. Like Sima Guang, Wang Anshi and Yue Fei.
Sima Guang and his wife Zhang have been married for more than 30 years and have no children. The ancients had a strong concept of carrying on the family line. Unlike now, many couples don't necessarily have children. Sima guang himself is not in a hurry, and Zhang is anxious. If she doesn't carry on the family line, how can she meet her ancestors? After careful consideration, Zhang finally bought a beautiful woman without telling Sima Guang and quietly sent it to Sima Guang's bed.
When Sima Guang came back, he found the beauty in his bed, quietly quit and went to sleep in the study. But the beauty adamant4, followed to the study, Sima Guang saw, regardless of her, one-way reading. The beauty was a little bored, so she just picked up a book and read it. After the beauty turned it over, she looked up and asked Sima Guang, "What book is Zhong Cheng?" Sima Guang replied with a straight face: "Zhong Cheng is a history, an official position, not a book!" "Beauty lost, she felt very boring. Seeing that Sima Guang was unmoved, she had to leave the study.
The husband is single-minded to himself, and Zhang is both moved and helpless. What can she do? She can't have children! So Sima Guang, while enjoying flowers with his father, discussed with his mother and arranged a beauty for Sima Guang. This time, Sima Guang did not take an indifferent attitude. At that time, he got angry and shouted, "Get out! Don't come to me when my wife is away! " From this time on, Mrs. Zhang also understood that her husband really didn't want to marry again and had to settle down. In the end, she and Sima Guang were childless and were the sons of the adopted Sima Kang.
Sima Guang's feelings for Zhang are sincere. Tell a little story between them. On the Lantern Festival, Zhang wants to go out to attend the world-famous Luoyang Lantern Festival. Sima Guang was worried that many people would squeeze his wife, so he stopped him: "You don't light at home, why do you want to go out?" Zhang said, "But I want to see not only lights, but also people!" Sima Guang smiled and said, "Are you going to meet someone? Strange, am I a ghost in my wife's eyes? " Haha-
Sima Guang doesn't take concubinage himself, and he doesn't allow his friends to mess around with men and women. A colleague and a geisha met privately in the temple. When he heard about it, he took people with him to catch it, scaring the wild mandarin ducks to death. Geisha hid in the monk's bed in despair, and my colleagues' hearts collapsed!