In "The League of Military Divisions", Sima Yi brought his own turtle with him from the appearance, and also gave this turtle a name called "Heart Ape Yima". The meaning of the heart ape is uncertain, it is difficult to control his own thinking, why does the turtle who looks very honest and well-behaved give him a name for the heart ape horse? Perhaps the heart ape here is not talking about the turtle, but refers to Sima Yi himself. Sima Yi's life was to follow the changes in the environment and external pressure, so that he constantly expanded to the point of final blackening, Sima Yi looked very calm, but his heart was very rich, and he knew that at the last moment he made up his mind to eliminate the Cao family's forces. And this turtle plays a good mapping effect in the middle.
The turtle means longevity and health in the eyes of Chinese, and Sima Yi can live for such a long time because he is usually diligent in exercising and has good living habits. To live to 72 years old during the Three Kingdoms period is indeed comparable to a turtle, after all, the average life expectancy of people at that time was only in their early 20s. But the deeper meaning is this hard turtle shell, and the instinct to survive under the shell. Sima Yi's personality is typical of bearing the burden of humiliation and avoiding its sharp edges, and it is the most important thing that he can survive, so no matter how much Sima Yi suffers from grievances and humiliation, he can digest himself, which is already a very great ability at that time, and it is precisely because of this that Sima Yi can become two generations of orphan ministers, otherwise he may have been killed by Cao Cao's relatives long ago.
For the early Sima Yi, how to survive peacefully in the DPRK was the most important. But with the passage of time, Sima Yi, who had assisted the Cao family for three generations, suddenly woke up one day, and he chose not to be patient but to take the initiative into his own hands. Sima Yi endured for a lifetime, and finally broke out after Cao Rui's death, Cao Shuang and he were both entrusted ministers, Cao Shuang was not as good as Sima Yi in terms of status and prestige, but he always liked to make him difficult everywhere, and finally used tricks to make Sima Yi give up his rights. At this time, Sima Yi had already made preparations, only waiting for an opportunity to appear, and then it was the change of Gao Pingling, which everyone was very familiar with. After eliminating Cao Shuang and his cronies, no one in cao wei could threaten Sima Yi, and the Sima family successfully took control of Cao Wei.
However, at this time, Sima Yi was no longer the Sima Yi who had just come out of the army, and the blackened Sima Yi's hands were already stained with blood. In the finale of "The League of Military Masters", Hou Ji pretended to slaughter Sima Yi's heart ape horse to make soup. As a result, Sima Yi was about to kill Hou Ji in a fit of rage, and Hou Ji said that sima Yi now had no benevolence and had become another person, even Hou Ji, who had served him all his life, had to kill. After hearing these words, Sima Yi gradually calmed down, put down the knife in his hand, and prepared to go out with Hou Ji to release the heart ape. As a result, Hou Ji died on the way to release, and Sima Yi was the last person to watch the heart ape return to nature, perhaps at this time Sima Yi really let go of the desire in his heart and returned to the most primitive state.
Of course, in the film and television drama, there are more or less beautifications of Sima Yi, and most of the sima yi in history are still negative records, but it feels that Sima Yi's life is the most exciting of the Three Kingdoms. Moreover, we can also discover the great truth of life from Sima Yi's body, and warn future generations not to lose themselves in the road of life. However, from Sima Yi's standpoint, perhaps he was also helpless, and it was not normal for people to suppress it for a lifetime without erupting.