"Zizhi Tongjian" is a chronicle of the Song Dynasty, a total of 294 volumes, after 19 years to complete, the influence of this book can be said to be comparable to the "History", after the completion of the book, the various scholars at that time competed to comment, but also became a must-read for the generals of the dynasty, the author of this book is Sima Guang.
I believe that everyone is already very familiar with Sima Guang, and the most important thing is that they have heard the story of Sima Guang smashing the cylinder.
When we were still playing with mud on the ground, the seven-year-old Sima Guang was already studying the classic masterpieces, and the "History of Song" recorded: "Guangsheng was seven years old, awe-inspiring as an adult, heard about "Zuo Shi Chunqiu", loved it, and retired to the family to talk about it" I am afraid that "Zuo Shi Chunqiu" is now placed in the eyes of several adults, and it is estimated that no one can bear it.
Sima Guang is a native of Xia County, his father's name is Sima Chi, when he served as a Tianzhangge to be made, that is, the personal literary adviser of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, he can be regarded as a prominent family, so Sima Guang was also born from a local tycoon, as we all know, the local tycoons often have a lot of friends around them, so every year there are children from neighbors who run to Sima Guang's house to play with him.
One day in the fourth year of Tiansheng (1026), the naughty boys ran to Sima Guang's house to play, and in the back garden of his house stood a large urn filled with water, and a leather child climbed up to the rockery leaning against the large urn to see what was inside, and as a result, the skin was in trouble, and the child quickly fell into the water and struggled desperately in the water.
The other children were scared silly, everyone was only seven or eight years old, they were all playing with mud, and really only played with mud, they fled, a little smarter to go to the adult quickly, Sima Guang next to him saw, knowing that it was too late to ask the adult for help at this time, and then used a large stone to break the vat, and the drowning child was saved.
To be fair, although this story is wonderful, I believe that many witty children can do Sima Guang's behavior now, and the reason why this story can be famous throughout the ages is because Sima Guang himself is too famous. But do you know who the little leather child that Sima Guang rescued was?
Can play with the children of the big official family, it is certainly not an ordinary person, this person was born in the Northern Song Dynasty of the famous and prestigious Family Shangguan Family, the name is shangguan Shangguang, Shangguan Shangguang when he was young, the official luck is prosperous, flat step Qingyun, according to the Family Tree of the Shangguan family, Shangguan Shangguang once served as the first position of the Northern Song Dynasty Prime Minister.
This statement has yet to be examined, but it is certain that Shangguan Shangguang was indeed in an important position in the imperial court at that time, and was a heavy courtier of the imperial court, and later in order to thank Sima Guang for saving his life, he specially built a pavilion called "Thanksgiving Pavilion" for Sima Guang on the southern slope of Longti in the west of the city, which is still passed down today.
So why didn't the teacher ever mention the man Sima Guang had rescued? This involves the later enmity and hatred, Shangguan Shangguang and Sima Guang disagreed because of Wang Anshi's change of law, and the two turned against each other, this history is too complicated for primary and secondary school students, so it is no wonder that the teacher will not take the initiative to mention it.