Author: Guan Ruyi
In ancient times, repudiation of wives had the name of seven out, and the first one was the seven out, childless, and one.
In ancient times, the most popular gifts for new wedding gifts were pomegranates, because pomegranates symbolized many children and many blessings.
In ancient times, it was normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines, and even the wife had to take the initiative to take concubines for her husband and open up branches and leaves for the in-laws.
From the perspective of today's people, this is wrong and immoral.
However, in the Song Dynasty, 900 years back in time, there was a man who dared to risk the world and would rather have no heirs, but also to live with his wife for a lifetime and a couple, and resolutely did not take concubines. It is Sima Guang.
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Sima Guang's wife, Zhang Shi, married the twenty-year-old Sima Guang at the age of sixteen. At that time, the marriage of these two people belonged to the door-to-door pair, a strong union.
In the years after the marriage, the Zhang clan had been out of the woods, and the then prime minister Pang Was very worried, so the prime minister's wife bought a woman and gave it to Sima Guang.
Sima Guang didn't even look at it, and he was extremely disgusted. As a wife, Zhang Shi thought that her husband was afraid of being sad and jealous, so he did not dare to get close to the concubine.
Zhang Shi found a concubine and told the other party that when he went out and was not at home, you dressed up beautifully and then went.
The concubine won the approval of the Zhang clan, and with the acquiescence of the Zhang clan, went to the study to see Sima Guang. However, Sima Guang was greatly annoyed and directly drove the concubine out.
This matter was known to the prime minister Pang Yuan, who hyped up Sima Guang's bad looks. In that feudal era, such a man was a righteous gentleman who was one in a hundred.
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Sima Guang's political enemy in politics is Wang Anshi, and if there is a history of Sima Guang, there is Wang Anshi, and the biography of Wang Anshi will also mention Sima Guang, and the two people have killed each other for a lifetime.
But only people who are similar can become enemies for a lifetime.
Wang Anshi, like Sima Guang, deeply resented the matter of taking concubines. However, Wang Anshi had children, and Sima Guang also had children.
Zhang gave birth to two sons for Wang Anshi, but they both died early at a young age. The childless Sima Guang, who inherited a child from the clan, was the son of Sima Guang's brother, named Sima Kang, probably Sima Guang wanted this child to grow up in peace and well-being.
In history, Sima Guang was a very serious person, and even very old-fashioned in some things. However, only in front of his wife Zhang Shi, Sima Guang had a humorous and kind temperament.
When it comes to Sima Guang, the first thing that comes to mind must be the story that everyone has known since childhood, Sima Guang smashing the cylinder. It tells the story of The young Sima Guang, who is calm and unhurried, and very intelligent.
However, Sima Guang's life did not stop there, and the Zizhi Tongjian was compiled by Sima Guang. In his lifetime, Sima Guang experienced four emperors and four important subjects. After Sima Guang's death, he posthumously honored Wen Zheng.
These two words are the highest praise of the literati, such as Fan Zhongyun and Li Hongzhang.
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It was only because of his opposition to Wang Anshi and because of the change of law that Sima Guang had mixed praises and criticisms in history. However, Sima Guang never used sinister means to frame Wang Anshi, and even when others persuaded Sima Guang to impeach Wang Anshi, Sima Guang also chose to refuse. These two people are simply politically different, but why not be friends who cherish each other?
Sima Guang is worthy of the style of a gentleman, and his style of conduct is bright and upright. In history, no matter from what direction, literary literacy, personal morality, Sima Guang is blameless. Historically, the evaluation of Sima Guang has always been very high, whether it is Su Shi or Zhu Xi, they have praised Sima Guang.
History has a temperature, so the right and wrong in history, everyone has their own ideas and judgments.
But Sima Guang, as a husband of the Zhang clan, was impeccable. Sima Guang is a man who ancient women could not ask for.
Treating love and marriage with respect, Sima Guang deserves to be learned by men.
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