The story of Sima Guang smashing the cylinder is well known, and he also did two major things in his life that were enough to make him famous in history: first, as a strong opponent of Wang Anshi's change of law and a conservative leader, he abolished the new law in his later years, which is called "Yuanyou Genghua" in history; second, it took 19 years to compile and complete the "Zizhi Tongjian". If a person accomplishes a great thing in his lifetime, he can be said to have not come to the world in vain, and in this sense, Sima Guang's life was successful. To our surprise, this famous politician, historian and essayist during the Northern Song Dynasty actually had a deep relationship with Hengshui, and according to historical records, he was the son-in-law of Jizhou.
Thousands of miles of marriage are tied
Sima Guang's ancestral home was Xia County, Shaanxi, northeast of the town of Anyi in present-day Yuncheng, Shanxi Province. His ancestor Sima Fu was Sima Yi's third brother, Bo tong jingshi, and was greatly appreciated by Cao Zhi and Cao Pi. After the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, he was named the King of Anping, with 4,000 households, and the capital of the state of Anping was in present-day Jizhou. Therefore, the Sima Guang family has had a deep relationship with Hengshui since then.
After Sima Guang's father Sima Chizhongjinshi entered the army, he entered the career from the post of chief bookkeeper of Luoning County, Henan, and later served in the posts of Zhixian of Guangshan County, Yaozhou Zhizhou, and Hangzhou Zhizhou, and the eunuchs fell for decades, and finally died in the post of Zhizhou of Jinzhou. Sima Chi served twice in Sichuan, first as a lieutenant of Pi County, in charge of a county magistrate, and successfully stopped unrest in the city. When he entered the river again, he served as the county commander of Xiaoxi County in Suizhou. It was during this period that he set a lifelong event for his third son Sima Guang.
At that time, there was a Jizhou man Zhang Cun (984-1071), who was a bit higher than Sima Chi, who was implicated in the incident and was demoted to Sichuan. Zhang Cun's place of office is not far from Xiaoxi County, and he and Sima Chi are friends, a few years older than Sima Chi, and the two often drink and chat together in their leisure time, chanting and singing. Sima Guang was about eight or nine years old at this time, and often stood behind his father and poured tea and water for the elders. He was a precocious child, as early as the age of five or six, he had a strong interest in reading, especially like "Zuo Shi Chunqiu", often telling the content taught by the teacher to his friends. Because of his skills, he was able to answer his father's questions quickly and accurately.
The gentry house of the Northern Song Dynasty, for the girl to choose a husband, a custom is "catch the son-in-law under the list", that is, after the imperial list, from those new sections of the gold list to choose lang Jun, the female family not only does not want the man's bride price, but also very willing to pay some money, which is called "catching money". Song Zhenzong once wrote two famous poems in response to this custom, "Marry a wife and hate no good matchmaker, there are women like jade in the book"; followed by intermarriage between scholars and doctors. At that time, Zhang Cun saw that Sima Guang was young and exported into a chapter, and there was an unusual spirit between his eyebrows, and he decided that this child would definitely have a career in the future, so he promised his second daughter to Sima Guang. Sima Guang, who was in his ignorant youth, was hit by his fathers and became the future son-in-law of Jizhou. Later, Sima Chi went to Renzhi County, Guangshan County, Henan Province, sima Guang accompanied his father to renshou, and when he was playing with his friends, the story of the popular "smashing the cylinder" occurred, which proved his potential to not panic and be able to do big things, and also verified Zhang Cun's extraordinary ability to know people in micro.
Sima Guang
Sima Guang was a mid-career soldier at the age of 20. The ancients paid attention to "the night of the cave flower candle, when the golden list was inscribed", and in the days of waiting for the appointment of the imperial court, the Zhang family had already waited anxiously and urged Sima Guang to complete the marriage many times. His new wife was four years younger than him, just in time for him, dignified and virtuous. Sima Guang completed two major events in his life in one year, reveling in double joy. It is worth mentioning that Sima Guang was the son-in-law of Jizhou, and his sister had married a scholar of the Anping Cui family before him and became the daughter-in-law of Hengshui.
From hengshui Lingyange public number