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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.
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.
The sky was clear, there was no wind, and the heat of the sun was strong. The large sea-going ships [of the Chinese] were unable to move. The men of Jin shot incendiary arrows at the mat-sails [of the Chinese ships] which were set on fire. [Han] Shizhong had originally prepared his ships for fighting on the water and on land.
Jun wheel-thrown stoneware bowl with blue glaze and purple splashes, Jin dynasty, 1127–1234 Official Jun "streaked" hexagonal flowerpot and stand, Ming dynasty, 1400–35 Wine cup, opaque bluish glaze with purple-red splashes, late Jin or early Yuan dynasty, 12th–13th century
Song dynasty Ding porcelain bottle with iron pigment under a transparent ivory-toned glaze, c. 1100. Both the closed shape and the painted underglaze decoration are uncommon in Ding. Ding ware appeared to have begun by imitating Xing ware during the Tang dynasty, but by the Song dynasty, Ding kilns had replaced Xing as the pre-eminent producers ...
They reach a water tank and break it open, revealing another Sima Guang hiding in the darkness. Reviewing the scene, Chung felt that it needed animation to be more effective. Three-dimensional computer animation was unavailable in Taiwan and he did not want to spoil the scene's emotion, so he commissioned Chung Shao-chun, a hand-drawn animator ...
In 1892, Xie Jiafu (謝家福) gave a manuscript of The Accounts of Jingkang to Ding Bing (丁丙), who believed that the said editor "Nai An" might have been Shi Nai'an (author of the early Chinese novel Water Margin), and it later became the collection of the Nanjing Library and collated by Ding Bingheng (丁秉衡) as of 1910.
The first systematic Chinese historical text, the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), was written by Sima Qian (c. 145 or 135–86 BC) based on work by his father, Sima Tan, during the Han dynasty. It covers the period from the time of the Yellow Emperor until the author's own lifetime. Two instances of systematic book-burning and a palace ...