Summary: There is an interesting question, in China's "Hundred Family Names", which surname is most likely to appear as an emperor noble? This is a question of idealism, because the surname is not directly related to being an emperor, and can only be regarded as obscene. Originally, this article on surnames was only created by a scholar in the Qiantang area during the Northern Song Dynasty in order to popularize knowledge. Today, it provides us with a material for laughing after dinner. The surname we are going to talk about today, which has a population of less than 30,000 in China, is Sima Shi. The total population of the Sima clan is not included in the top 100 of the hundred surnames in mainland China and Taiwan Province, but there are fifteen emperors in the 549th place. Let's take a look at the royal history of sima today.
According to legend, Sima Shi originated as an official position in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which was an extension of the official name of The Father Cheng Boxiu, the minister in charge of military power in the Western Zhou Dynasty. In ancient times, there were people who were heavy li, and they were the officials who ruled the heavens and the earth, and Tang Yao had raised chongli. During the reign of King Xuan of Zhou, there was Cheng Boxiu's father after Chongli, an official to Sima Anderson, who was in charge of the national army, and assisted the state with a large government, and was very powerful. Later, Cheng Boxiu's father Keping Xu Fang made great contributions, and King Xuan of Zhou allowed him to take the official title as his surname, and later became Sima Shi. After the Eastern Zhou Dynasty entered the Spring and Autumn Period, the Song Kingdom, the State of Chu, and the State of Jin all had descendants of the Sima surname, especially the descendants of Cheng Boxiu's father, some of whom were called Sima Shi "with officials as the clan" and some of whom were called cheng by "taking the state as the clan". Therefore, this Sima clan and the Cheng clan are of the same origin, with a history of more than 2,700 years.
Most of the origins of the Sima clan come from this official position, and even if there are other theories, they are also inseparable from their origins. It is precisely because of this long history that the Sima family has always been a noble family, and the influence of the Sima family has not diminished from the Spring and Autumn Warring States period to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the chaotic world of the Three Kingdoms, Sima Shi also had the opportunity to chase the supreme throne of the world. Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan divided the world early, and Sima Shi did not gain the status of a prince when Dong Zhuo was in chaos, but Sima Yi's birth was born, leaving the Wei state with the Sima family. After Sima Yi killed Cao Shuang, the Sima family had been in control of Cao Wei's government until the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty.
After the Gaopingling Incident, Sima Shi eliminated Cao Wei's die-hard loyal forces, Sima Zhao destroyed the Shu state in the west, and Sima Yan completed the great cause of unifying the world. In 265, Sima Yan forced the Wei Yuan emperor Cao Huan to take the throne, and the state name was Great Jin, that is, Emperor Wu of Jin. In 280, the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Sun Wu and unified the world, but the peaceful and stable situation lasted only for a short period of eleven years (the 280-year destruction of Wu unification ended the 96-year-long chaos at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, and the Rebellion of the Eight Kings in 291 began the 298-year-long Five Hu Sixteen Kingdoms and later Northern and Southern Dynasties Dispute). After the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Rui established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jiankang and used a large number of northern clans to suppress the local Jiangdong clans, so he controlled the political power in the area south of the Yangtze River and was able to defend himself according to natural dangers.