Is it true that Sima Guang hit the tank? We were deceived by textbooks for decades

In China, Sima Guang’s smashing of the cylinder is a familiar story, which is known to anyone with a primary school degree or above. In the elementary school textbooks, the young Sima Guang was so wise in this matter that he left a very tall image in the hearts of the same young us. This glorious image continued until we learned Wang Anshi. political reform. Sima Guang's stubbornness and "reactionary" ultimately made Wang Anshi's reforms fail. That clever and intelligent child finally turned into a stubborn bad old man in our minds, and this bad old man was "very bad".

The illustration of Sima Guang’s smashing cylinder in the textbook. Are the children’s hairstyles very unconventional?

The struggle between Sima Guang and Wang Anshi is quite controversial in academia. Even the most professional historians may not dare to pat their chests. In the end, who is right and who is wrong, I am even more afraid to make troubles, so this article will not discuss Wang Anshi. Reform, only discuss Sima tank smashed.

Oh, sorry, Sima Guang smashed the tank.

Some people have verified that the Song Dynasty where Sima Guang lived did not have a tank. The early ceramic firing technology of

was not developed, and the Song Dynasty did not master the technology of firing wide-mouth large cylinders. At that time, if a wide-mouth cylinder is fired, the mud tire will produce a kind of stress at high temperature, and this force will cause the cylinder mouth to break. This defect in craftsmanship was not remedied until the early Ming Dynasty. People in the Ming Dynasty fired many beautiful large cylinders, such as two exquisite blue and white porcelain cylinders unearthed from the Dingling of Emperor Wanli.

cylinder

In this way, the claim that Sima smashed the cylinder is completely nonsense.

However, if you use this to conclude that Sima Guang’s story of smashing the tank is a mess, it is obvious that he lacks the spirit of seeking truth from facts.

The story of Sima Guang’s smashing of the cylinder is recorded in official history, but the records at that time are different from the story we are telling now. The history books record that Sima Guang’s smashing of the cylinder is "urn", not "cylinder."

Song history about Sima Guang’s smashing the cylinder is recorded like this: Guangsheng was seven years old, as awe-inspiring as an adult, when he heard about "Zuo Shichunqiu", he loved it and retired to his family, that is, his big finger. I didn't let go of the book, I didn't know the hunger and thirst. A group of children played in the courtyard, they climbed into the urn, fell into the water, and everyone abandoned them. Just holding the stone and hitting the urn to break it, the water bursts and the children live.

"urn" and "urn" are not the same thing. The difference between an urn and a urn is like a dead fat man with a big straw belly and a bodybuilder with a wide shoulders and a thin waist. The former is thick and thin at the ends, while the latter is inverted. triangle. In professional terms, the urn has a closed mouth and the urn has a wide mouth.

urn

Before the Song Dynasty, the process of burning urns has not been invented, but the technology of burning urns is very mature. A long time ago, Chinese people used urns to serve food and even barbecue. For example, the famous cool official in Wu Zetian's period came to Junchen with an idea. She planned to use the urn to roast another cool official Zhou Xing of his old predecessor. However, due to Zhou Xing's confession, this idea did not become a reality. However, there was an idiom that raised a rock and smashed himself in the foot—please enter the urn.

Dingling blue and white porcelain urn, it is said that the urn was filled with grease,

used to light the lantern. However, some people still questioned the incident of Sima Guang’s smashing of the urn.

First of all, some people think that it is almost a small probability that a child accidentally falls into an urn with a small opening. We should have the common sense that objects that are thick and thin at the bottom are unstable. If the child cannot be "precisely guided" through the urn opening, once it hits the urn opening or the edge of the urn, the urn is likely to fall. In this case, there is no need to smash the urn and the child cannot be flooded. What's more, whether the opening of the urn can accommodate a child is a problem.

Secondly, suppose the first situation is true, that is, the urn can accommodate a child, and that child is also "precisely guided" to enter. At this time, it is time for Sima Guang to perform real skills. Sima Guang needed to lift a big rock. The weight of this rock should not be very light. If it is too light, it will not break the urn at all.

However, some tongjing comrades may say that the urn may be very thin.

Sima Guang was seven years old when he hit the tank, and the children playing with him are probably of this age group. Children aged six or seven are estimated to be 40 or 50 catties. A child of forty or fifty catties fell into the urn with a sound of "holes". The urn was not broken. It is estimated that one or two bricks would be impossible for this kind of resistance.

So, can the seven-year-old Sima Guang lift a footIt is very doubtful to break the stone of that urn.

research here, we may come to a pessimistic conclusion: not only the Sima Guang’s urn in the elementary school textbooks are fake, even the Sima Guang’s urn in the Song History compiled by the Yuan Dynasty cannot stand scrutiny.

Actually, this is not important.

Sima Guang’s smashing of the urn is just a small detail in history. Fortunately, the kid rescued by Sima Guang is not a big man, and it does not play a decisive role in the development of history. Therefore, it didn't matter whether Sima Guang smashed the "tank" or not, because the person in the "tank" was neither Yue Fei nor Qin Hui. Whether

is real or fake, it is not really important anymore. Just like what is sung in a very mouth-watering song: The things in the story may be true, and the things in the story may never have been. In fact, a story is a story, and a story is a story. A story is a story...

If children can learn from this story a spirit of courage and flexibility, what does it matter whether it is true or not?

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