After people knew it, they gathered around to buy it, and a basket of bamboo fans was quickly snapped up. The old woman waiting to buy rice was very happy and thanked the helpful calligrapher.
Sima Guangsheng was born at the age of seven, and he was in awe as an adult. He heard about Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals and loved it so much that he retired to his home for this purpose. Naturally, I can't put down my books. I don't know if I'm hungry or thirsty. A group of children were playing in the yard. One climbed into the urn and fell into the water. Everyone abandoned it. Just throw a stone at the urn, the water will burst and the child will live.
Once, he and his friends were playing in the backyard. There is a big water tank in the yard. A child climbed to the edge of the tank and accidentally fell into the tank factory. The water tank is very deep, and it seems that the child is going to have no roof. When other children saw that something was wrong, they cried and cried in fear and ran outside to ask adults for help.
Sima Guang, however, used his quick wits to pick up a big stone from the ground and hit it hard at the water tank. "bang!" The water tank was broken, the water in the tank came out, and the child who was submerged in the water was saved.
Xiao Sima Guang was calm when he was in trouble, and he was like an adult since he was a child. This is the story of "Sima Guang smashing a jar" that has been passed down to this day. This accidental event made Xiao Sima Guang famous, and people in Tokyo and Luoyang painted it and spread it widely.
3. During the Northern Dynasties in Wei Qi, there was a man named Li Shiqian, whose family was very rich, but he advocated frugality, was generous and often helped the people. One spring drought, many families were short of food. Li Shiqian took out 10,000 stones of food and distributed it to the food-deficit households in the village.
In autumn, it will be a bad year and crops will fail. People who borrow grain all ask for a delay in repayment. Li Shiqian said: I lent you food to help you through the famine, not for profit. Since the years are bad, you don't have to pay back the borrowed grain.
So he invited some people who owed food to eat, and burned all the IOUs in front of everyone when eating. In the second year, there was a bumper harvest of grain, and many people chose to return the grain. Li Shiqian resolutely refused to accept it, and the people who returned the grain had to choose again. Li Shiqian was charitable for thirty years, and Emperor Wendi died in eight years. In Zhaozhou, where he lives, more than 65,438+00000 people held a funeral for him, shaking with tears.
4. Xin Gongyi, a native of Sui Dynasty, was the secretariat of Zhou Min (now Min County, Gansu Province). The local people have a bad habit. Everyone is afraid of getting sick at home, and no one will take care of the patients. Patients often get worse and die quickly without care and treatment.
When Xin Gongyi learned of this situation, he ordered the patient to be taken to the yamen, where he lived with hundreds of patients and personally arranged for them to see a doctor and take medicine. After careful nursing, all these patients recovered. Xin Gongyi's behavior not only won people's praise, but also completely changed the local bad habits.
It is said that Song Taizong is an emperor, but he knows that starting a business is not easy. So his life is simple and he is very sympathetic to the people. One winter was very cold. Wearing a fox coat, Emperor Taizong sat in a warm room and felt cold. He thought, "It's so cold that people who lack clothes and firewood must be cold."
So, he called Yin of Kaifeng Prefecture to the palace and said to him, "It's so cold now that we who don't worry about food and clothing all feel cold. Those who are short of clothes, food and charcoal are definitely colder. Now you take people to the city with food, clothes and charcoal to help those who have no clothes and wood. "
After hearing this, Yin Kaifeng immediately took people with food, clothes and charcoal to meet those poor people. The rescued people are very grateful. As a result, the story of "timely help in the snow" has been left in history.