Sima has produced many famous people, such as Qin Qin Simacuo , conquered Shu and defeated Chu , the rich resources of the country of Tianfu provided solid guarantee for Qin to eventually swallow up the six countries; Western Han His famous lyricist Sima Xiangru , an outstanding representative in the history of Chinese cultural history and literature, and his love story with the talented woman Zhuo Wenjun is widely circulated; of course, Sima Cuo's ninth generation grandson Taishigong Sima Qian, "Records of the Grand Historian" is the first general history in Chinese history and is recognized as a model of Chinese history books. The surname Sima was even more awesome in the late Three Kingdoms period. Sima Yi , Sima Shi , Sima Zhao and its descendants finally completed the unification, ending the great separatist situation in China since the end of Eastern Han Dynasty , and establishing Jin Dynasty .
In theory, the Sima family made great contributions to Chinese history, ended the division and ended the war. If they operated well, the people could live and work in peace again. However, , the Western Jin , did not choose a successor soon after the founding of the country. The stupid emperor and the crazy empress appeared, and the dictatorship of the foreign relatives appeared. Then there was the Sima family's , the Eight Kings Rebellion, and the , who were killed by their own families, were particularly ruthless, and the defeat was often the extermination of the clan. The consequence of internal consumption of
is that it caused the decline of the Western Jin Dynasty, giving the ethnic minorities attached to during the Han Dynasty, and a situation of Five Barbarians invading China occurred. The Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed, and the Han people in the north were massacred in large numbers, and the Sima family was almost killed as a royal family.
Langya King Sima Rui established Eastern Jin , but this is only a small part of the Sima family. The Eastern Jin court, which had lost its basic northern base, was not as strong as before, so it could only compromise and share power with the aristocratic forces in Jiangnan, such as the Xie family and the Wang family. As long as people from the Sima family appear, they will die inexplicably.
Due to the continuous decline of imperial power, many nobles with the Sima surname changed their surnames to avoid persecution. After the Eastern Jin Dynasty was destroyed by Liu Yu , in order not to revive the Eastern Jin Dynasty, another round of killing against the Sima family under the banner of revenge for the Liu family of the Han Dynasty. In order to avoid disaster, Sima changed his surname one after another, and most of them changed it to a single surname, such as Sima, Ma, Tong, Tong, Feng and other surnames.
In the Song version of "Hundred Family Surnames", Sima ranked 410th, but there was still a famous politician and historian who could "smash the jar" Sima Guang .
According to the sixth national population census, the population of Sima surname is 549, with a population of 28,000, less than 0.01% of the national population. Although the population of Sima surnamed
is small, Sima is already a big surname in the compound surname compared to Situ, Dugu, Murong, Ouyang , Ximen, etc.
