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Sima Guang (17 November 1019 – 11 October 1086), courtesy name Junshi, was a Chinese historian, politician, and writer. He was a high-ranking Song dynasty scholar-official who authored the Zizhi Tongjian , a monumental work of history.
Sima Guang. The principal text of the Zizhi Tongjian comprises a year-by-year narrative of the history of China over 294 scrolls, sweeping through many Chinese historical periods (Warring States, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin and the Sixteen Kingdoms, Southern and Northern dynasties, Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties), supplemented with two sections of 30 scrolls each—'tables' (目錄; mùlù ...
Sima Guang, historian and statesman during the Song dynasty, known for his monumental historical work Zizhi Tongjian and rivalry against contemporary Wang Anshi. There is a popular story of him, as a youth, saving someone who fell into a large water pot by smashing it with a rock.
Sima Guang's expansion of the Yupian, 31,319 character entries, 544 radicals Longkan Shoujian: 997 (Liao) Buddhist dictionary of pronunciations and meanings, 26,000 characters, radical and phonetic indexes Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary: 1931: Robert Henry Mathews, 2nd ed. 1943 Menggu Ziyun: 1308 (Yuan)
Sima Tan was born the eldest son to Sima Xia (司馬遐; 273 - 15 July 300 [3]), Prince Kang of Qinghe and the 13th son of Emperor Wu of Jin, [4] and Xia's wife Lady Zhou (周氏). Lady Zhou's father was Zhou Hui (周恢) [ 5 ] and her mother was a paternal aunt of Sima Yue , Prince Xiaoxian of Donghai, and daughter of Sima Kui, brother of Sima ...
Sima Gan (司马榦; 232 - 26 February 311), courtesy name Ziliang (子良), [6] was the youngest son of Sima Yi and his main wife Zhang Chunhua, and a younger brother of Sima Shi and Sima Zhao. Sima Yi, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao eventually became regents of the Cao Wei state during the Three Kingdoms era.
The (1066) Leipian 類篇 is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Song dynasty (960-1279) lexicographers under the supervision of chancellor Sima Guang.It contains 31,319 character head entries, more than twice as many as the 12,158 in the (c. 543) Yupian, and included many new characters created during the Tang (618-907) and Song dynasties.
The Sushui Jiwen (涑水記聞; "Records of Rumours from Sushui") is a book written by the Song Dynasty historian Sima Guang (1019–1086) in imperial China.While working with Liu Daoyuan [] (劉道原) and others to compile a never-published Zizhi Tongjian Houji (資治通鑑後記), a book on the Song Dynasty history, Sima Guang collected many miscellaneous anecdotes.