In the Song Dynasty, there were two people who were hard to read; Wang Anshi was one, and his lifelong nemesis Sima Guang was the other.　　About Sima Guang, especially his childhood deeds, make him the longest-qualified moral model who embodies the core values of our nation. A child fell into a tank of water, Si Ma Guang, if he also followed the climb up and fell in, then he is another very stupid child; if he like other children as birds and beasts, or find parents, Yamen to deal with it properly, then the mood of the crowd in the tank basically can not be stabilized, and Si Ma Guang still will not stand out.

A child fell into the tank, another child did not stay away, but sought a large stone, clanging raised, potential energy into kinetic energy, boldly smashed ...... above this group of slightly montage characteristics of the combination of actions to save a child's life, but also determine another child in the nine years of compulsory education elementary school textbooks of history.

In fact, just when I received my compulsory education, I had serious doubts about the deeds of this moral role model: the tank that can withstand the pressure strength of a full tank of water should be quite strong in texture, and how on earth did a seven-year-old child lift that huge and hard stone to destroy another hardness? This also defines my place in history in the classroom, a do-gooder who wilfully questions the legacy of history and morality.

Like Xu Wei (Xu Wenchang) and Yixiu Zongchun (Brother Yixiu) as children, there are some people who do have extraordinary boldness and wisdom in childhood, and none of them are mediocre laymen. And these two prodigies are not the same, they are different degrees of madness in adulthood, while Sima Guang is intact as before.

It is not right to say that he is as good as new, he is only still sane, but from then on he no longer dared to break anything, and even in the face of those necessary reforms are also jealous, he has become almost synonymous with conservatism.

As two of the dynasty's top ministers, Sima Guang and Wang Anshi, a conservative, a radical, incompatible. Compared with Wang Anshi's bold and all-encompassing reforms, Sima Guang advocated rectification and fine-tuning of the original system through the constraints of ethical norms, saying: "Ruling the world is like living in a room; when it is worn out, it is repaired, and if it is not very bad, it will not be built again. The big bad and change, not to get good craftsmen and beautiful materials not, now both are not, I fear that the wind and rain do not shelter also." He opposed the reform, but also questioned the ability of Wang Anshi, which also strengthened his stubborn attitude to hold on to the old ways, a bite of the "ancestral law can not be changed".

This actually more people sympathize with Wang Anshi, sympathize with the one who did not dip the vinegar to eat the crab, the one who summoned the courage to walk in front of the times. At this time, Sima Guang's face is nothing more than a feudal landlord class of vested interests of the defenders and advocates, is for a narrow sense of despicable.

The surname Sima has been a symbol of official status since Yin and Shang, and even if the ancestors were subjected to palace punishment, it did not affect the unification of China by their descendants. I can superficially guess that Sima Guang's stubborn adherence to tradition is motivated by the vested interests of this illustrious family name or the group behind it, and the need for a spokesperson to come out and show solid adherence to the tradition. "There is no willow wadding that rises in the wind, but sunflowers that face the sun" ("Early Summer in the Hakkas"). You see, Sima Guang is as loyal to his distinguished family name and the interests behind it as a sunflower is to the sun.

Once someone made a bold assumption, if Sima Guang does not oppose the change of law, but with Wang Anshi to become comrades and fight side by side to implement the new law, then the Northern Song Dynasty regime may be declined and revitalized, there may be no "Jingkang change", no "mud horse crossing the Kangwang", no domination of China. ", there is no domination of the Mongols, the female Zhenren can only continue to huddle in the Jilin border in the mountains are still regarded as barbarians ...... the process of the Chinese nation may be avoided too circuitous and winding road and speed up nearly a thousand years.

History often goes against the grain, Sima Guang is stubbornly blocked in the way of Wang Anshi stride. This also reminds the future generations to always pay attention to, can have the courage to block in front of you is often not a mantis.

Song Emperor Shenzong once identified Sima Guang square straight and broad, Su Shi also feel the same way, and from time to time in the exchange with Sima, doubly depressed. Once the two deliberated, Sima Guang did not give an inch, Su Shi was furious, said: "the public this theory, so for the turtle with the kick." Sima Guang did not understand the meaning of "turtle with kick", said: "How can turtle with kick (kick)?" Su Dongpo replied, "That's why I say you are a turtle."

Sima Guang has no heir, but it does not affect the couple's relationship. Mrs. Pei married a concubine for her husband, afraid of her husband's scruples, timely excuse to go out. Sima Guang see concubine alone, then asked: "Mrs. went out, why are you still here?" Sima couple conversation is also extremely interesting. One year, the Lantern Festival, Mrs. want to go to see the lights, Sima Guang said: "home also lighted lights, why go out to see?" Mrs. said: "not only to see the lights, but also to see the people." Sima Guang laughed and said, "Seeing people? Strange, am I a ghost!" Sima Guang and his wife, a life of poverty. After the death of his wife, he can bury his wife, lonely paradise, and wrote a small poem, pasted on the beam, which "temporarily like a guest, return to not home" ("Road Mountain"), the table of his wife's love for his late wife, quite moved the world.

Sima Guang was childless, and set up Sima Kang, the son of a member of the clan, as his heir. When Sima Kang came of age, the court wanted to reuse him, but he died of diarrhea. The first time I saw him was when he was a young man, and he had a son, Sima Shikai, who grew up to be no less virtuous than his father. Just when everyone was pleased that there was a successor to Lord Sima Wen, misfortune struck unexpectedly, and Sima Shik died of a sudden illness. Sima Zhi had no children. Since then, Sima Guang heir in the end, listening to people endless sadness.

Shusun Bao, a doctor of the state of Lu in the Spring and Autumn period, called "virtue", "merit" and "speech" as "three immortal ". It is said that history can do three immortal only two and a half, Confucius, Wang Yangming and Zeng Guofan (half). Regardless of virtue and speech, Sima Guang seven years of age to establish a merit, since then it is no longer a mediocre layman.

But the neighboring tank and live with us, when can we usher in the big test of life?