Slash the snake and pet the cat Sima Guang
Watching Zhang Yongxin's new film "The Age of Awakening", Mr. Cai Yuanpei was overjoyed, so he talked to his friends about the peking university president's poisoning, fighting and other interesting things, and the result... They were despised, and everyone thought that how could Mr. Tangtang Cai be hooked up with these things? It must be people like Lao Sa who maliciously spread rumors and slandered a generation of celebrities.
What's not to like about that? What happened to Baume & Mercier? Celebrities do more evil things, such as Sima Guang, you just know that he will smash the cylinder, do you know that he will also cut snakes and cats?
▲ Sima Guang... Petting a cat? Is this a crossing?
Since ancient times, there has been a sudden increase in celebrity anecdotes. Mr. Sima Guang, who wrote the "Zizhi Tongjian", smashed the cylinder without saying anything, and later there were anecdotes about how he sold horses and how to smash walnuts.
Although selling horses is Qin Shubao's business, and the crows in Tokyo are better at smashing walnuts, these anecdotes are very educational, and the ancients said that there is, so let's count it. But what's going on with chopping snakes and petting cats?
Sima Guang's cat is well documented in history, and in his later years, Mr. Lao wrote a special article "The Biography of Mao Qi (shù)", telling how his family's meow is affectionate and righteous, far more painful than Wang Anshi, the article revealed that Mr. Lao had raised many cats in Luoyang's Duyuan Park, and at least two cats left names in history - one is called Qi, which seems to be a female cat like a black tiger, and the other is called Shanbin, who is a guy who is good at catching rats.
▲ Being able to go down in history and meow in a historian has this advantage
In addition to Sima Guang and Han Yu, the celebrities who pick up cats show the favor of cats in ancient China. In ancient China, there were records of raising cats in the Han Dynasty, and by the time of the Song Dynasty, there had been a certain popularity, some people believe that the Chinese people domesticated with wild tanuki cats, and in the biological world, some zoologists believe that the Chinese cat is not much different from the domestic cat in other countries in the world, and is a descendant of the Egyptian black-clawed cat.
▲ The Egyptian black-clawed cat was worshipped by the Egyptians as a god, and judging from the arrogance of today's meows, I think there is some truth to this conclusion
Chinese cats may have come from Xi'an, and this is also a transit station, Japanese cats are passed down from China, and were used as library security guards in the early days to protect Buddhist scriptures from rat bites, and later even the emperor was turned over... The result is that a cat sells for five horses in Japan. Mr. Sima Lao has always had a headache for the great Song's inability to make ends meet, that is, he did not think that he could change his career to sell meows and turn the tide of the tide, how pedantic Nair.
Well, Sima Guang's meow is considered to be a person's interest, cutting snakes, what is going on? In fact, when Lao Sa saw that there was actually a legend that Sima Guang cut a snake, and it was a python that was beheaded, it was difficult to hide his surprise in his heart at that time- this kind of work was not something that a courtier should do in ancient times, was it not Han Gaozu who was reborn into the Sima clan?
▲ Han Gaozu beheaded the white snake and gave it a strong wind, opening the foundation of the Han Dynasty for four hundred years, could it be that Sima Guang also had such deeds?
If you think that Sima Guang's ancestor is Sima Fu, the uncle of the second master of Zhao in "Sima Zhao's Heart Road Is Well Known", the image of Sima Wengong will go straight to the chaotic world and adulterous male.
Sima Guang's deeds of slaying the snake can be found on Zhihu, which occurred in the ninth year of Tiansheng (1031), and the content was quite informative- "At that time, he and his father were on their way to Lizhou (present-day Guangyuan) in Sichuan, when a giant python suddenly sprang up, and Sima Guang was not afraid, holding a sword to stab the tail of the python, and the python turned over and fell down the boardwalk. At that time, Sima Guang was only 13 years old. ”
Historically, Sima Guang has held various positions, only the use of soldiers is the most disadvantageous, he actually dared to kill pythons, at first it sounds like this matter seems incredible, but carefully examined, there are quite reasonable points.
Sima Guang's father, Sima Chi, was also a famous courtier, and he was a deputy envoy of the Three Divisions, and the Tianzhang Pavilion was to be controlled. According to the "Sima Guang Chronology", in the ninth year of Tiansheng, he was transferred from the post of Commander of Guangshan County to the post of Lizhou Road Transporter, according to the regulations at that time, he should first go to the capital, that is, Kaifeng, and then go to shang, passing through Luoyang, Qinling into Sichuan, and indeed going through many boardwalks on the way.
▲ Guangyuan's famous Mingyue Gorge Trail is still a scenic spot today
Although some scholars believe that Sima Chi may not have been appointed as the envoy of Lizhou Road in history, it did not occupy the mainstream. There is a record of Sima Guang accompanying his father to Guangyuan in the "Jisheng of Youdi", and there are also Sima Guang reading desks in Guangyuan, and Sima Guang's attendants follow the inscriptions and other monuments written by his father, indicating that he should have indeed been here when he was a teenager. In this way, it is possible for Sima Guang to encounter a python on the local boardwalk and cut it down.
However, in that part of Sichuan, are there pythons?
▲ Pythons are the largest of the snakes, giving the impression that they should live in the tropics, such as the Amazon jungle, will it appear in places like Sichuan?
If you look at the online information, you can find that a few years ago, a 55-meter-long python appeared in the "Jinsiya Jade Mine in Jiaying Village, Maotang Township" in Sichuan, which frightened the miner Jia Xianwa and could not die with explosive packages.
However, people with a little zoological knowledge will see the flaws, because the world's longest python forest crab is only more than ten meters long, growing to more than fifty meters of snakes, do not know how to live, there should be no such species on the earth.
And a little investigation, you will also find that the so-called "Maotang Township Jiaying Village" is not in Sichuan at all, which is obviously another oolong in the network transmission. In today's Sichuan, there has been no trace of python activity for decades.
However, there are still pythons in China today, and it is a python that can reach seven or eight meters long, which is the Burmese python that can still be found in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and other places today.
▲ A Burmese python found and "rescued" in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, in 2017
Because the Burmese python is a temperate animal, it will stiffen and slow down below 25 ° C, and today's Sichuan, especially in northern Sichuan, is not suitable for its survival.
However, in the era when Sima Guang lived, although the climate was slightly colder than that of the two Han Dynasties, it was still far milder than today, and the distribution of Asian elephants and rhinos had just retreated to the Lingnan region, so it was also possible that one or two Burmese pythons appeared in Sichuan.
However, Lao Sa's doubts about this anecdote are still very large, and the biggest problem is that although there is a lot of information about Sima Guang's snake on the Internet, the writing is almost the same, and there is no original literature source, which is difficult to form a reliable evidence.
In addition, some historians have questioned that Sima Guang was the Sima family's ya nei at that time, and his father's official system was very high, although the two traveled not to rob men and women, they would always take the bodyguards, how could a twelve-year-old child come forward when encountering a snake?
Well, Sima Guang's cat can probably become a conclusive conclusion, and the snake can only be doubted, Rao is so, considering Sima Guang's stubbornness in his later years, it still gives us a subversive understanding of the image of those celebrities in ancient times.
It seems that everyone has been young.
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