The story of "Sima Guang Smashing the Cylinder" can be said to be well known to the world, everyone talks about it every time, and Sima Guang's resourceful and kind nature from childhood has also been used by many parents and teachers to educate their children.
However, we all know the accident of "Sima Guang Smashing the Cylinder", Sima Guang's name is also thunderous to the world, but who is the child that Sima Guang rescued after smashing the cylinder in that year, and even the history textbook never mentioned his name? Why? Two key figures in the same key historical event are remembered only one of them, and the other person is not even recorded in the history? This did not cause the editor to think deeply, in the spirit of human curiosity, I vowed to find out the name of this person.
The Emperor did not pay off, and finally let the editor find some clues in the wild history. It does record the true identity of the child who was rescued after Sima Guang smashed the cylinder.
It is said that Sima Guang was playing with several children when he was young, and a little boy was too naughty and climbed into a large water tank, and the water in the water tank immediately flooded the little boy, and the little boy shouted for help, but no child next to him knew how to save him, and he also cried urgently. At this time, Sima Guang was calm and self-assured, picked up the large stone next to him and smashed it into the cylinder, resulting in smashing the water tank out of a large gap, and all the water flowed out, and the little boy who fell into the water tank was also saved; after that, everyone praised Sima Guang's wit and called him a prodigy.
Well, the story is almost over here, we only see that the protagonist in the story is Sima Guang, and the key characters of the whole event should be two, but why does everyone only say Sima Guang, but no one has ever mentioned who the rescued person is? At least you should know whose surname is it? Don't worry, listen to the editor in detail.
Because the story of "Sima Guang Smashing the Cylinder" is an educational material. And the whole story is not an earth-shattering event, people just want to learn from Sima Guang's wit when he was a child to educate the next generation. So, it doesn't really matter who the person who is saved is. Over time, the world only knew Sima Guang and gradually forgot about the causes and consequences of smashing the cylinder, and the person who was saved was not only forgotten by history, but also never even remembered. Naturally, it is not surprising that people do not know each other.
However, Ye Shi has recorded the identity of this person, although he did not serve as an official in the court like Sima Guang, nor did he have Sima Guang's fame, but he had a real name. This person's surname was Shangguan, and his single name was a Shangzi, but later in order to repay Sima Guang's childhood favor, he added an extra guangzi after his name. Therefore, he called himself "Shangguan Shangguang" to remember Sima Guang's grace. After he grew up, he has been doing business abroad, and he thinks about how to repay Sima Guang all the time. It is said that the grace of dripping water should be repaid by the spring, in fact, I think people like this should be remembered by history.