In the "History of Song", such a well-known story was recorded. Sima Chi was the county commander of Guangshan County, and his son Sima Guang was only 7 years old at the time, but he was very stable, and he liked to appreciate the "Spring and Autumn of the Zuo Clan" since he was a child, and even read to the extent that he forgot to eat and sleep, and could not release the scroll.
One day, Sima Guang was reading in the courtyard, but a child climbed into a large vat filled with water because of his greed, and fell into the water. This was very dangerous at the time! After all, the child is not as tall as the water tank and has choked on the water in the tank. And there are no adults around, there is no way to rescue him, and the child will almost die. However, Sima Guang, who likes to read, is in a hurry and uses a stone to smash the vat, thus saving the child. Sima Guang was so wise, and his practice was related to reading, so the matter was widely circulated for a while. Sima Guang has become a model for teachers to admire and educate students.
However, in a television program, Zhao Dongmei, a professor of history at Peking University, once told the public about Sima Guang's smashing of the cylinder during the banquet, and Mr. Ma Weidu, a famous collector of cultural relics, put forward different opinions on this. He believes that although Sima Guang has saved people, he has not smashed the cylinder at all! And Sima Guang's practice of smashing the cylinder is actually just a rumor.
Why did Mr. Ma Weidu dare to make such a conclusion? In fact, this story comes out of the authenticity of the cylinder. You know, before the Ming Dynasty, the large containers of ancient water were almost all pottery urns, and there were no cylinders at all. After all, although the cylinder and the urn are both fired, and the two are extremely similar, from the appearance, the mouth of the urn is the mouthpiece, and the mouth of the cylinder is open. The earliest large urn of closing has existed as early as the Warring States period, and the firing technology is quite mature. However, the difficulty of firing such as the open deep belly large cylinder has risen several grades, and it was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty that the cylinder was successfully fired for the first time, and if the large cylinder up to one meter high is burned, it is even more impossible. The difference between the two is thousands of years, and it cannot be confused.
In addition, the book on Sima Guang's deeds is titled "History of song. Sima Guang's biography), however, this book was by no means written by the Song dynasty, and was written by the Yuan Dynasty scholar Li Li Qi. The age he was in was 300 years different from Sima Guang,000 years, and the authenticity of the matter needed to be examined. In addition, even in the book, when it comes to the details of Sima Guang's rescue, it is only written like this: "The group plays in the court, one child ascends the urn, the foot falls into the water, everyone abandons, the light holds the stone to break the urn, the water bursts, and the child has to live." "We can clearly see from the text that Sima Guang smashed the urn, not the cylinder!"
With the spread of false rumors, everyone is also accustomed to calling "Sima Guang broken urn" "Sima Guang smashing cylinder". However, in this matter, there are not many future generations. After all, the reason why the teacher praised his deeds was that he hoped that everyone would learn from his wisdom and this spirit of helping others. Naturally, it will not be deliberately corrected, and it will take a lot of trouble to "punch the face".