1, smashing a jar to save a man
Sima Guang began to read when he was 6 years old, and by the time he was 7 years old, he had memorized the Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals backwards and forwards. One day when he was 8 years old, he was playing games in the courtyard with his buddies. After a while, one of the children, with a sweaty face, ran to the vat to wash his face with some water. By mistake, he fell into the vat full of water. When the other children heard the commotion, they rushed over to rescue him, but they were too short to reach him.
The little ones were frightened and ran off in a panic to find an adult. Sima Guang just wanted to go to the adults, but it was too late. Instead, he picked up a large stone nearby and smashed it into the vat. "With a bang, the water in the vat gushed out. The other children were so happy that even the adults praised Sima Guang for being a smart boy. In this way, Sima Guang's story spread all over China.
2, sleep "police pillow"
Sima Guang was a playful and sleepy child, for this reason, he was often condemned by Mr. and ridiculed by his peers. Under Mr.'s instruction, he was determined to change the problem of sleepiness. In order to get up early, he drank a bellyful of water before going to bed. As a result, he did not wake up in the morning but wet his bed instead of being suffocated. Smart Sima Guang with a garden wood for a police pillow, turn over in the morning, his head slipped on the bedpan, natural wake up. From then on he got up early every day to read, perseverance, and finally became a learned, wrote the "Ziji Tongjian".
3, study hard and cherish the time
When Sima Guang in private school, he always thought he was not smart enough. In order to train his memory, he often had to spend two or three times more time than others to memorize and recite things from books. When the teacher finished talking about something in the book, the other students could recite it after reading for a while, so they ran out to play. Sima Guang stayed alone in the schoolhouse, closed the window, and continued to read aloud earnestly until he had read it so well that when he closed the book, he was able to recite it word for word, and then he would not give up.
He used his free time, such as when he was riding his horse on the road, to recite silently on one side and think about the content of the text on the other. Not only was he able to memorize what he had learned, but his memory got better and better, and what he had learned as a young man he could never forget for the rest of his life. Because he studied meticulously from childhood, he laid a very solid foundation for his later writings and speeches.
Sima Guang persisted in burying his head in the study, often forgetting to eat. The place where he lived, besides books, had only very simple furnishings: a plank bed, a quilt, and a round wooden pillow.
4, always be an honest person
Shi Ma Guang was especially fond of green walnuts when he was small. One day, he wanted to eat green walnuts, his sister peeled the skin for him, but could not peel it. After his sister went away, a maid put the green walnuts in boiling water and scalded them, and the skins were easily peeled off. When she came back, she asked who had peeled them off, and Sima Guang said he had peeled them himself.
But this process happened to be witnessed by his father, who saw him lying and sternly reprimanded him for how he could lie like that! This incident is very small, but it left a deep impression on Sima Guang. From then on, whether as a person, or usually in the middle of the learning process, Sima Guang is always very honest, do not dare to have a little false.
5, writing the Ziji Tongjian
Song God Zong Xining years, Sima Guang strongly opposed Wang Anshi's change of law, and petitioned for a foreign post. In the fourth year of Xining (1071), he was sentenced to the Western Capital Imperial Palace, and since then he lived in Luoyang for fifteen years, not asking about political affairs. This leisurely years Sima Guang presided over the compilation of 294 volumes of 3 million words of chronicles, "Ziji Tongjian". It took 19 years.
"Ziji Tongjian" on the Zhou Wei Lie Wang twenty-three years, down to the five generations after the Zhou Shizong Xiande six years, **** record 16 dynasties, after 19 years to complete. He said in the "into the Zizhi Tongjian table": "I am now emaciated sinew and bone exhaustion, teeth and teeth, God's sense of depletion, the current so-called, heel and forget, as much as in this book." Sima Guang for this book to pay a lifetime of energy, less than 2 years into the book, he died of exhaustion. Ziji Tongjian" from the beginning to delete the final draft, Sima Junshi personally write, not fake others. Qing Dynasty scholar Wang Ming Sheng said: "This world must not be without the book, but also scholars must not read the book.