Chinese culture is broad and profound, and the history of 5,000 years has a long history. For people, the culture of the predecessors is always recorded in the history books of the future generations.
Sima Guang smashed the cylinder during the Song Dynasty, this matter was recorded as the mainstream thought, people admired Sima Guang's wit and cleverness, but did not expect that someone would question this story, this questioner is Ma Weidu, so what happened?
The story of Sima Guang smashing the cylinder has been learned in textbooks since childhood, this story takes place in the Song Dynasty in Guangshan, Henan, Sima Guang and his good friends play outside together, the young people have a strong sense of curiosity about new things, and at this time the sound of children laughing and laughing makes the adults ignore the danger.
Suddenly, with a thud, a small child fell into the vat, and the children's cries made them panic and did not know how to save him, watching their companions call for help in the vat but could not do anything. At this time, the young Sima Guang stood up, and he quickly calmed down and thought about ways to save his companions.
Suddenly, Sima Guang saw a stone in front of him, and as soon as the spirit moved, he carried the stone and smashed it towards the big vat, and the big vat immediately cracked, and the water in the vat flowed out, and his companions were also saved.
The adults who heard the voice listened to the words of the children around them to understand the root cause of the incident, and could not help but express their appreciation for Sima Guang's performance.
Throughout Sima Guang's life, he edited the Zizhi Tongjian, bowed to the Song Dynasty, and successively served four generations of monarchs, so that Song Shenzong and other monarchs could see his strength and talent. After his death, he was posthumously awarded the title of Taishi, so that future generations could pay tribute to his great achievements. Sima Guang, on the other hand, left his name in history for his feats as a child and his service to the country when he grew up.
While everyone teaches children to learn sima guang to deal with urgent matters calmly and calmly, some people have questioned this. This skeptic is Ma Weidu, so who is Ma Weidu? Why did he question Sima Guang's smashing of the cylinder?
Ma Weidu was born in Beijing in 1955, and his mother's family was well-off, which allowed Ma Weidu to learn what he was interested in. He lived in a courtyard house in old Beijing, surrounded by writers such as Ye Shengtao, who had made significant contributions to the history of Chinese literature, while Ma Weidu and Gao Xiaosong were good friends from childhood to adulthood.
It was under the influence of such culture that Ma Weidu developed a strong interest in porcelain and cultural relics. In 1980 he began his own cultural creation, and in 1981 he published his first article in China Youth Daily, and after the article was published, he became a contract editor of Youth Literature.
Ma Weidu, who had a smooth life, soon worked with like-minded friends to create the most influential work in the history of Chinese television dramas, "The Story of the Editorial Department".
After great achievements in literature, he began to collect ancient Chinese artifacts, and in just ten years his collection has begun to take shape, involving ceramics, ancient furniture, jade and many other fields.
Ma Weidu, who has a huge collection, soon founded the guanfu museum in the People's Republic of China in 1996 at the suggestion of a friend. In 1997, Guanfu Museum opened to the public and impressed the public with its exquisite collections and unique exhibition methods.
At this time, Ma Weidu was already a famous writer, scholar, and screenwriter in China, who founded programs such as "Ma Weidu Collection", and won the title of the third Rich List of Chinese Writers in 2008 and the title of Top Ten Figures in China's Collecting Circles. Since then, the name of Ma Weidu has been thoroughly understood by the public.
Shockingly, Ma Weidu publicly stated in the program that the story of Sima Guang smashing the cylinder was fake. What is the reason for this?
It turned out that Ma Weidu had a good understanding of ancient porcelain, and he felt that this large porcelain such as a cylinder could not be fired at all in the Song Dynasty, so he said that the story of Sima Guang smashing the cylinder was likely to be fictional, or that Sima Guang smashed not the cylinder but the urn.
In ancient times, there were two kinds of large containers, the urn was closed, and the cylinder was open, although the difference seemed simple, but in the firing technology it was very different. But a Tang Dynasty idiom made Ma Weidu punch in the face.
Ma Weidu's comments on Sima Guang's smashing of the cylinder soon aroused widespread discussion among the public, and everyone expressed their ideas. But he did not expect that the punch in the face would come so quickly, and he felt very ashamed of a Tang Dynasty idiom inviting Jun into the urn.
The idiom of inviting a king into an urn occurred during the reign of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty, when Wu Zetian was in power to suppress those who rebelled against her. Among Wu Zetian's right-hand men, two were the most vicious, namely Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen. They used all kinds of madness and cruelty to kill many upright officials and people.
Suddenly, a whistleblower letter was sent to Wu Zetian's hand, and the content was actually to report that Zhou Xing, who was most trusted by Wu Zetian, had privately contacted and plotted rebellion. Wu Zetian was furious and immediately arranged for Junchen to investigate the matter.
Lai Junchen knew that Zhou Xing was a sinister and cunning person, and that just relying on a whistle-blowing letter was not enough for him to tell the truth, and if he did not explain his problems, Wu Zetian would not easily let himself go.
Lai Junchen did not know how to do it for a while, and suddenly he thought of a good way to do it, and he invited Zhou Xing to his home to entertain him warmly.
When he was full of wine and food, Junchen asked Zhou Xing if the person handling it did not tell the truth, what should he do? Zhou Xing sneered and said, "This is not simple, you put Weng on the firewood, put the sinner in the urn, and light the fire sinner will say anything." ”
When Lai Junchen heard Zhou Xing say this, he tortured him according to the method he said, and Zhou Xing looked at what was in front of him and explained everything in a panic. The idiom of inviting the king into the urn is also well known to the public and has been passed down to this day.
Therefore, when Ma Weidu said that the Song Dynasty could not produce large porcelain, some people used this idiom to refute his words. After all, there was the emergence of Weng in the Tang Dynasty, and the dynasty whose economy of the Song Dynasty has reached its peak will certainly be more advanced than the porcelain-making technology of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Ma Weidu never imagined that he would be punched in the face by an idiom.
But in the final analysis, people are not entangled in whether the story of Sima Guang smashing the cylinder is true or false, and they can't tell the difference between Weng and the cylinder.
Because for the public, the story of Sima Guang smashing the cylinder is to teach people that when they encounter urgent problems, they should not panic and not mess up, but calmly and calmly deal with the problem, which is the most important.