How did Kuang Heng grow up?

Kuang Heng was a native of the Western Han Dynasty, born in Chengxian County, Donghai County. His family has nothing to do with the word "rich", his ancestors have lived on farming for generations, and the family is in a difficult situation, but what his parents did not expect was that they actually gave birth to a good child with ambition and diligent study, Kuang Heng was very obsessed with the Book of Poetry, and in the Han Dynasty, familiar with the Book of Poetry was enough to be an official.

But Kuang Heng is a typical poor child, the family can not afford to buy oil lamps, and can not read books at night when it is dark. So Kuang Heng made a clever move, punched a hole in the wall, let the light in the neighbor's house pass through, read through the faint light, and was thirsty for knowledge. This incident is recorded in the Xijing Miscellaneous Records, in addition to which the Xijing Miscellaneous Records also record another incident of Kuang Heng.

Kuang Heng lives by working part-time, he does not want money to work, only to see the books in the employer's home, his studious spirit touched the employer, the other party will lend him those books to read, so Kuang Heng's knowledge is wider. After growing up, Kuang Heng went to worship the "doctor" of the Han Dynasty as a teacher, studied the "Book of Poetry" more deeply, and took many examinations before passing a small Taiyuan County literary history.

Although the position was low, Kuang Heng showed his face in front of the crown prince Liu Yi. The prince liked these Confucian classics and preferred to listen to Kuang Heng talk about the Book of Poetry, so after the prince ascended the throne (known as the Han Yuan Emperor in history), Kuang Heng was gradually reused, and even the official was the minister. Many of the suggestions he made to Emperor Yuan of Han were adopted, such as persuading Emperor Yuan of Han to use the court of Jian Province, pro-xian courtiers, and far lesser people.

Kuang Heng became a famous person recorded in the Book of Han, but he was eventually relegated to the rank of Shuren. The cause of the incident was that the Han Yuan Emperor made Kuang Heng the Marquis of Le'an and obtained the marquis Kuang Heng, who was supposed to have only 310,000 mu of fiefdom, but the map at that time was not advanced enough, and there were errors in many places, and Kuang Heng found loopholes in it.

Probably greedy, Kuang Heng took advantage of this loophole and expanded his fiefdom to more than 40,000 acres. Emperor Yuan of Han did not discover Kuang Heng's deeds, and it was not until after Emperor Han Cheng ascended the throne that Kuang Heng was played, so Emperor Han Cheng took punitive measures against him, stripped Kuang Heng of his title status, and demoted him to a shuren, and Kuang Heng had to return to his hometown to live, and died of illness within a few years.

It is equivalent to saying that Kuang Heng stole the light when he was a child, and when he grew up, he began to steal land. There is not necessarily an inevitable connection between the two, but It is certain that Kuang Heng did not keep his original intention. Many modern netizens have made a new interpretation of the story of "chiseling the wall and stealing the light", believing that Kuang Heng's approach only takes into account himself and does not consider his neighbors, which means that there is a selfish element in his personality.