Here are a few small stories of young men in the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasties, such as Kong Rong, Zhong Yu, Zhong Hui, Wang Rong, Sima Shao, etc., after reading, people can't help but sigh, since ancient times, only a teenager, why is he so talented!
"Kong Rong's Young And Smart"
Kong Rong was brilliant from an early age, and at the age of ten, he followed his father to Luoyang, the capital of Beijing. At that time, Yin Li of Henan was very famous, and all the celebrities and friends he interacted with were celebrities and friends of the time, and no one else saw him.
Kong Rong intended to see Li Fuqi alone, so he came to the gate of Li Mansion alone and said to the gatekeeper, "I am a family friend of Li Fujun. ”
Li Bing asked Kong to meet him, and seeing that he was just a schoolboy he didn't know, he asked strangely, "What do I have to do with your family?" Did your grandfather know me? Kong Rong replied, "Once upon a time, my ancestor Confucius (Zhongni) had a teacher-student relationship with your ancestor Lao Tzu (Li Er, Zi Boyang), and I naturally had a friendship with you for generations. ”
Li Bing and the guests present were not surprised by Kong Rong's answer. Only the late-arriving Taizhong doctor Chen Yun (wěi Wei), after hearing him tell him this, was very dismissive, saying: "People who have been very intelligent since childhood may not really have wizards when they grow up." ”
Kong Rong did not show weakness, and said with a sneer: "Listening to you say this, probably when you were a child, you must have been very intelligent." "With his human way, he also treated his body, which made Chen Yun very embarrassed." Li Bing smiled and said to Kong Rong, "This child will become a great instrument when he grows up!" ”
(Book of the Later Han Dynasty, vol. 70, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, vol. 12, cites the Book of Continuation, The New Language of the World, and The Taiping Imperial Records, vol. 385, cites the Biography of Kong Rongbie)
[Kong Rong] (153-208), Ziwen Ju. A native of the State of Lu (present-day Qufu, Shandong). A literary scholar at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, one of the "Seven Sons of Jian'an". He served as the Marquis of the Northern Army, the General of the Tiger Army, and the Minister of Beihai, then known as Kong Beihai. A good guest, he liked to criticize current politics and fierce speech, and was later killed for angering Cao Cao.
"There are eggs under the nest"
At the beginning of the Three Kingdoms dispute, Kong Rong was dissatisfied with Cao Cao, and Cao Cao also hated him. Once, Cao Cao's general Xiahou Yuan was defeated by Liu Bei, and Cao Cao prepared to use an army of 500,000 to go to the new field to fight Liu Bei.
After Kong Rong knew, he said: "This is an unreasonable person to fight a reasonable person, how can he not fail?" This was known to Xi (xī Xi), who had always hated Kong Rong, and he reported it to Cao Cao, saying that in the past, You Heng had scolded Cao Cao at the behest of Kong Rong. Therefore, Cao Cao sent someone to capture Kong Rong.
At that time, Kong Rong's two sons, the eldest was nine years old and the younger was eight years old, when they saw someone coming to arrest their father, they were still playing chess, and they couldn't sit up and had no fear.
Kong Rong interceded with the men sent to arrest him, hoping to question himself and save the lives of his two sons.
But his son said, "Father, where have you ever seen a bird's nest overturned on the ground and keep the bird's eggs intact?" Sure enough, the two sons were also captured and brutally killed along with Kong Rong.
(Romance of the Three Kingdoms, vol. 1 and 2, cites "Wei's Spring and Autumn", "Later Han Shu" vol. 70, "The New Language of the World")
"Shudder Sweat Dare Not Come Out"
Zhong Yu and Zhong Hui had a good reputation when they were teenagers, and when they were thirteen years old, when Emperor Cao Pi of Wei heard about it, he said to their father, Zhong Xuan, "You should let your two sons come to see me." So he summoned him.
Zhong Yu had sweat on his face, and Emperor Wen asked him, "Why do you have sweat on your face?" Zhong Yu replied, "The battle is fearful, and the sweat is like pulp." ”
He asked Zhong Hui again, "How come you don't sweat?" Zhong Hui replied: "Trembling, sweat does not dare to come out." ”
("The New Language of the World", Taiping Guangji, vol. 174, cites "Novel")
Zhong Hui (225-264) Zi Shi Ji, a member of the Three Kingdoms Wei Yingchuan Changshe. Zhong Xuan's youngest son, the official to the general of Zhenxi. He was later killed for treason. Talented.
"The Many Sons of the Plum Tree on the Side of the Road Will Be Bitter"
In the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Wang Rong, who, when he was seven years old, once played with several children on the side of the road, and saw that the plum trees on the side of the road were full of fruit and broke the branches.
The other children all rushed to pick it, but Wang Rong did not move.
At that time, when a passerby asked him why he did not pick it, Wang Rong replied: "The plum tree grows on the side of the road and has so many fruits, it must be bitter and inedible." ”
The man took one and tasted it, and sure enough, it was as Wang Rong said.
("The New Language of the World", Book of Jin, vol. 43)
[Wang Rong] Wang Rong (234-305), the character 濬 chong. A native of Linyi (present-day Linyi, Shandong). Famous scholars and officials from the Three Kingdoms to the Western Jin Dynasty, one of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest".
"See the Sun And See Chang'an"
Sima Shao, the eldest son of Emperor Sima Rui of Jinyuan, was young and intelligent, and was favored by Emperor Yuan. When he was only a few years old, he sat in front of Emperor Yuan's knee, when there was an emissary returning from the north, and Emperor Yuan received news from the emissary, and he couldn't help but burst into tears.
Then he asked Sima Shao, "Tell me about the sun or Chang'an, which is farther away from us?" Sima Shao replied, "Chang'an is closer to us than the sun, because we have only heard of people coming from Chang'an, but we have never heard of anyone coming from the sun." Emperor Yuan thought his answer was extraordinary.
The next day, Emperor Yuan invited the courtiers to a banquet, told Sima Shao's words to the courtiers, and asked him this question again, but Sima Shao replied: "The sun is near." ”
Contrary to the answer he had answered the day before, Emperor Yuan changed his face and said, "Why is what you answered today different from what you answered yesterday?" He said, "Look up and see the sun, but not Chang'an." "It means that you can see the sun when you look up, but Chang'an can't see it."
From then on, Emperor Yuan became more fond of Sima Shao.
("ShiShu Xinyu Suihui", "Zhenyu Collection" volume 12 citing "Jin Copy", "Jin Shu" volume 6, "Jiankang Shilu" volume 6)
Sima Shao (299–325), courtesy name Daoqi, was a native of Wen County, Hanoi (present-day Wen County, Henan). The second emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he was filial in temperament, literate and strategic, intelligent and organic.
The above five stories are selected from "Interesting Souls Pick One: A Complete Collection of Funny Short Stories of Chinese Literati in Past Dynasties" (all 10 volumes)
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