What are the prodigies in Chinese history? Introduction to the Top Ten Prodigies in Ancient China

In ancient China, there were many amazing child prodigies, such as Cao Chong, Gan Luo and so on, which we are more familiar with, are all famous child prodigies in history. This time, we will introduce you to the history of the most famous ten child prodigy representative, they may also have we are not familiar with, take this opportunity to learn to learn. However, the stories here are not guaranteed to be true tales, and may have been altered, but child prodigies certainly existed, and they are very common in our modern lives. Here's a look at who ten of them really are.

Gan Luo 12 years old for the Prime Minister

Gan Luo (birth and death date unknown), the Warring States period of the State of Chu under the Cai (now Anhui Yingshang) people, from a young age, smart, is a famous teenage politician. Gan Luo was selected by the Chinese World Records Association as the youngest politician in Chinese history. His grandfather, Gan Mao, was a notable figure in the state of Qin who served as the left prime minister of Qin. "Under his grandfather's tutelage, Gan Luo grew up to be smart, witty and eloquent, and was well liked by his family. Later, Gan Mao was ostracized by others and was forced to flee from Qin, and soon died in Wei. At the age of twelve, Gan Luo joined the Qin Prime Minister Lu Buwei and became his scholar.

At that time, Qin was trying to attack Zhao with Yan, so he sent his minister Zhang Tang to Yan, but Zhang Tang excused himself. When Lu Buwei was at his wits' end, Gan Luo, who was only twelve years old at that time, knew everything about the state affairs, and Gan Luo volunteered to persuade Zhang Tang to go to his post. Lu Bu Wei didn't believe him at first, but Gan Luo said with a straight face, "Once upon a time, Xiang Zu was the teacher of Confucius at the age of 7. I am now 12 years old, can't you let me try?" Lu Buwei had to accede to his request.

Gan Luo drove to see Zhang Tang and said, "Back then, Wuanjun Bai Qi was thrown out of Xianyang by Ying Hou and died in Du Post because he disobeyed Ying Hou's Fan Ju's order to attack Zhao. Now Marquis Wen Xin has much more power than Marquis Ying, and you disobeyed his order, it seems your death is not far away!" The words scared Zhang Tang so much that he obediently agreed to go on a mission to Yan.

Gan Luo also obtained Lu Buwei's consent to go to Zhao to lobby in accordance with Qin's intention to expand the He Ma county. He targeted the king of Zhao's fear that the Qin-Yan alliance would be unfavorable to Zhao, and attacked his heart, saying, "The Qin-Yan alliance is nothing more than wanting to take over the land of Zhao's He Ma, and if you cede the five cities of He Ma to Qin, I can go back to the king of Qin to persuade him to cancel Zhang Tang's mission. I can go back and persuade the King of Qin to cancel Zhang Tang's mission and break the alliance with Yan. At that time, if you attack Yan, Qin will not intervene, and Zhao will gain more than five cities!" The king of Zhao was so happy that he gave the map and household registers of the five cities to Gan Luo. Gan Luo returned with a full load, and when Qin gained the land of Hezha without spending a single soldier, the king of Qin appointed 12-year-old Gan Luo as the upper minister and rewarded him with the land that had been granted to Gan Mao in that year.

Since the rank of prime minister and senior minister at that time were almost the same, the story of Ganluo being prime minister at the age of 12 was deduced from folklore.

From this, we can see that Gan Luo's talent is not only incomparable to his peers, but also inferior to adults in general, a child prodigy!

Cai Wenji, six years old can recognize the sound of the string

Cai Wenji, Diem, the original word Zhaoji, Jin avoid Sima Zhao taboo, change the word Wenji, the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Chen Liu Mian people, the Eastern Han Dynasty, a great writer, Cai Yong's daughter, is the history of China's famous talented women and literary figures. Cai Wenji was a talented woman and writer in Chinese history. She was good at poetry and literature since she was a child, and was especially good at the sound of the qin and sepulcher.

At the age of six, Wen Ji pestered her father to teach her how to play the zither, and Cai Yong played a song first. But due to play too hard, accidentally broke the first string, he did not realize, play as usual. Wen Ji, however, immediately heard, "Father, you played the first string!" Cai Yong shocked, his daughter has never learned to play the piano, and even the piano has not touched, how could he hear that he played the first string broken? Cai Yong continued to play, deliberately breaking the fourth string. Wen Ji immediately recognized: "Father, you played the fourth string again!" Only then did Cai Yong believe that his daughter had indeed mastered the rhythm of sound without a teacher.

Cai Wenji was later instructed by her father, and her zither skills were perfected.

Cao Chong Amazing Wisdom

Among the prodigies of the Three Kingdoms, the most famous is undoubtedly Cao Chong. Cao Chong, the son of Cao Cao. Cao Chong from a young age has shown amazing talent, understanding is very strong, by the age of 5, 6 years of age, his talent will reach the adult level, left Cao Chong weighing elephants allusion, "Wei Shu Deng Ai Wang Chong biography" also recorded an incident, said that Cao Cao at that time with a large army conquest of the world, the order is prohibited, the criminal law is very strict, which led to frequent wrongful deaths. On one occasion, a saddle placed in a warehouse was chewed by rats, and it happened to be Cao Cao's. The soldiers in charge of the warehouse were horrified. The soldier who was in charge of the warehouse was terrified and thought he must be doomed. When Cao Chong found out, he made small holes in his clothes with his sword and pretended that the rats had bitten through them, looking sad. When Cao Cao saw this, he asked him what was wrong. He replied, "Everyone says that the clothes were bitten by rats and that the owner of the clothes is going to meet with misfortune." Cao Cao laughed and said, "That's all nonsense, there's no such thing as luck or misfortune." Later, the warehouse management of the soldier or truthfully reported the mouse bit through the saddle, Cao Cao at once understand the intention of Cao Chong, laughed, and did not pursue this matter.

Compared to Cao Zhi and Cao Pi, Cao Chong's wisdom can be said to be amazing. In fact, Cao Chong not only has this kind of "small smarts", but also "discernment and benevolence, with the nature of the inherent, the appearance of the gesture of beauty, there is a difference in the crowd, so special to see the favor of the different." Often use his wisdom and status to do some great things to save people's lives, according to the history books: "when the military state many things, with the punishment of serious. Where the crime should be killed, but for the punch micro-discernment, rely on the excused, before and after dozens of". Cao Chong was undoubtedly a genius, and it was probably for this reason that he was loved by Cao Cao, who chose him as his successor at a very young age. Unfortunately, he only lived to be thirteen when he died of an acute illness.

Yuan Jia The Fairy Child

During the Northern Dynasties, there was a child named Yuan Jia, who was known as the Fairy Child because he was able to do multiple things at the same time.

Yuanjia once performed this act: holding a pen in both hands, he drew left and right in a circle, while his mouth recited an article word for word, and at the same time he was able to accurately count the number of sheep that were grazing on the grass. His mind was not idle either, as he was composing a poem in five lines, which he wrote neatly on a piece of paper on the ground with the pen between his feet. He was doing these six different things at the same time, and each of them was accomplished so well that those who witnessed it were astonished.

Zhuge Liang The Wonderful Strategies of the Zhuang

If you have read the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", you will be impressed by the ingenious Zhuge Liang, but do you know that Zhuge Liang was able to make wondrous plans when he was a child?

When Zhuge Liang was a child, he studied under Mr. Shui Jing. One day, Mr. Shuijing said to his students, "From now until three minutes past noon, whoever can get my permission to walk out of Shuijingzhuang can leave the master." The other students did everything they could but failed to convince the teacher to let them leave. Zhuge Liang walked up to the teacher and said, "You purposely made a difficult problem to harm us, I don't want to be your student any more, give me back my tuition fee for the past three years!" The teacher, seeing Zhuge Liang so insolent and licentious, was so angry that he immediately ordered him to be driven out of Shui Jing Zhuang.

Zhuge Liang laughed out loud as soon as he got out of the manor, and he ran back to the school and knelt down in front of the teacher, saying, "I spoke out of turn just now in order to get out of the manor, so please punish me." The teacher then came to his senses and immediately turned his anger into laughter and let him out of the school. Zhuge Liang grew up to be a famous strategist.

Sima Guang ( 司马光) broke the urn to save his friend

Sima Guang ( 司马光) was born in Xia County, Shaanxi Province. When Sima Guang was born, his father, Sima Ji, was the magistrate of Guangshan County, Guangzhou, so he named him Guang. At the age of seven, he was "like a grown man, and when he heard Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals being taught, he could understand the main purpose of it". From then on, "I never let go of the book, I don't know hunger, thirst, cold and summer". The children's story of "Sima Guang smashing the jar" was widely circulated in the area of Tokyo and Luoyang at that time, where people drew a picture of a child hitting the jar.

The story of Sima Guang smashing a vat is that once he was playing with his friends in the backyard. There was a big water tank in the yard, and a child climbed up to the edge of the tank to play, and accidentally fell into the tank factory. The tank was so big and deep that the child was about to lose his head. The other children saw what happened, so scared that they cried and shouted, and ran outside to the adults for help. Sima Guang but in a hurry, pick up a large stone from the ground, vigorously to the water tank smashed, "Bang!" The tank broke, the water in the tank flowed out, was drowned in the water of the child was also saved. The small Sima Guang calm, witty and courageous in the event, passed for the ages.

Laozi, a young man, on the woes and blessings

Li Er, the word Boyang, also known as Laozi, is China's greatest ancient philosophers and thinkers Laozi standard like one of the thinkers, is the founder of the Taoist school of thought, the world's cultural celebrities. Later people called it "Laozi" (the ancient pronunciation of the word "Lao" is the same as the word "Li").

Li Er was very insightful when he was in his teens. At that time, Chu conquered the state of Song with great vigor, but Li Er said, "This is not necessarily a good thing. The state of Chu was weak before, so no one paid attention to it, so it was able to recuperate and grow. Now that it has won the battle, the tree attracts the wind, and there will be no peace from now on."

A year later, there was the Battle of Chengpu between Chu and Jin, in which Chu lost miserably. People remembered Li Er's words and thought that he had the divine power of foretelling. King Xiang of Zhou asked Li Er to teach him the power of fortune-telling. Li Er said, "I am not a seer. All things in the world have inherent laws; all things are complementary and can be transformed into each other; what goes around comes around, and what goes around comes around, and this is the truth." King Xiang of Zhou was so impressed that he kept Li Er as an official in the court.

Meng Chang Jun (孟尝君) was born on the fifth day of the fifth month to a concubine of Tian Ying (田婴), the prime minister of Qi. Because of the local custom that babies born on this day would be unfavorable to their fathers, Tian Ying told Tian Wen's mother to take the baby and throw it away, and told her, "Don't feed him." But Tian Wen's mother secretly raised him anyway.

On the very day of Tian Wen's fifth birthday, Tian Ying found out about the secret and became furious, angrily saying to his mother, "I told you to take this baby and throw him away, and you dared to keep him alive, why is that?" Before Tian Wen's mother could answer, Tian Wen immediately bowed down and bowed down, and then asked Tian Ying rhetorically, "What is the reason that you did not allow the child born in May to be raised?" Tian Ying replied, "A child born in the month of May grows up to be as tall as a portal, and will harm his father and mother."

Tian Wen said, "Is man's destiny granted by heaven? Or is it granted by the portal?" Tian Ying did not know how to answer well, so he was silent. Tian Wen went on to say, "If it is granted by heaven, why do you have to worry about it? If it is granted by the gateway, then just raise the gateway, who can grow so tall!" Tian Ying was speechless so he rebuked, "Stop it!" After some time, Tian Wen took the opportunity to ask his father, "What is the name of your son's son?" Tian Ying replied, "Called Sun Zi." Tian Wen then asked, "What is the grandson of the grandson called?" Tian Ying replied, "Called Xuan Sun." Tian Wen asked again, "What is the name of the grandson of the grandson of the grandson?" Tian Ying said, "I don't know anymore." Tian Wen said, "You have been the prime minister of the state of Qi for three generations, but the territory of Qi has not expanded, while your private family has accumulated ten thousand gold, and you have not seen a single capable person under your door. I have heard that a general's court will produce a general, and a prime minister's court will produce a prime minister. Now your concubines can trample on silk and silk, while the sage can not wear short clothes; your men and women slaves have a surplus of rice and meat soup, while the sage can not even eat enough chaff. Now you are still trying to add more and more to your store, wanting to leave it to those who can't even call them by their names, but forgetting that the country is losing its power among the vassals day by day. I am privately wondering."

From then on, Tian Ying changed his attitude towards Tian Wen, valued him, and let him preside over the household affairs and receive guests. The number of guests increased, and Tian Wen's fame spread to all the vassal states. All the vassal states sent people to ask Tian Ying to make Tian Wen the crown prince, and Tian Ying agreed to do so. When Tian Ying died, he was posthumously honored as Prince Jing Guo. Tian Wen succeeded Tian Ying's title in Xueyi. Tian Wen became a famous statesman and had 3,000 patrons under his tutelage. This was Lord Meng Chang.

Fang Xuanling (房玄龄) was a young man who recognized the big picture

Fang Xuanling (房玄龄), alias Fang Qiao (房乔), character Xuanling (玄龄), a Han Chinese, a native of Linzi, Qi Zhou (齐州临淄) in the Tang Dynasty (唐朝), was the founding prime minister of the Tang Dynasty (唐朝), China, with his father Fang Yanqian (房彦谦). Xuan Ling expands the classics and history, work books and good writing, 18 years old when the state raised the jinshi, has been authorized by the feather riding lieutenant, sermon city lieutenant.

Fang Xuanling grew up in the Sui Dynasty, when Emperor Wen of Sui had not long seized the world, and the society was prosperous. The Sui dynasty was generally regarded as unbreakable, but at a young age Fang Xuanling could see its potential decline from its apparent strength, and said to his father: "The Sui dynasty has not benefited the people at all, but only rely on fooling the people to maintain their rule, and the royal family is not in harmony with the brothers, and each other, and in the future, the conflict will be intensified, and will lead to the world's great chaos! In my opinion, the day of Sui's demise is not far away." The father couldn't help but be shocked at hearing this, and instructed his son not to talk nonsense.

Soon after, Fang Xuanling's words came true. When Emperor Wen was killed, Yang Guang took the throne, and soon the world was in turmoil as the rebels rose up in all directions. The Sui dynasty was overwhelmed, and Li Yuan and his son took advantage of the situation to take over the world.

Fang Xuanling later became the chancellor of Tang Emperor Li Shimin, and established a distinguished career.

Li He was a genius who surprised Han Yu

Li He was known as Li Changji, Ghost Cai, Poetry Ghost, Li Changgu, Li Fengli, and Li Bai and Li Shangyin, and was known as the "Three Li's" of the Tang Dynasty.

Li He was able to compose poems when he was six or seven years old. At that time, Han Yu, a famous literary scholar, appreciated his poetry so much that he personally went to Li's house to meet him and asked him to write a poem on the topic of his visit. Li He thought about it and then waved his pen rapidly, and in a short while, he wrote a poem in the ancient style, "Gao Xuan Over". Han Yu took a look, only to see the whole poem is fluent and natural, very elegant, wrote out the momentum of Han Yu's visit, praised Han Yu's literary achievements, but also said the poet's great ambition.

Han Yu appreciated Li He's talent so much that he sought his father's permission to take him home and teach him to write poetry and composition. With the guidance of a famous teacher, Li He's talent skyrocketed, and when he grew up, he became a famous poet, known as the Ghost of Poetry.

In our country, the story of the prodigy is far more than these, such as: Xiang Gou, 7 years old, not by the Confucius test, the opposite of the Confucius test, to become the Confucius division; the Han Dynasty's Dongfang Shuo 2 years old, that is, the dark recitation of the "History of the Wei Dynasty"; Liu Xiaochuo, a writer of the Southern Dynasties, 6 years of age can be written; the Yin Clang 4 years old recitation of a poem a day a thousand words; Xu Ling 7 years old can be written, the broad involvement of the classics and history; Locke Binwang 6 years old wrote a poem recited for generations of the "Winged Goose"; Wang Bo 5 years old, wrote a well-conceived poem. Wang Bo, at the age of 5, wrote a well-constructed article, often shocked the audience, at the age of 8 years old, wrote the "Han Shu Note flaws"

Yang Jiong, at the age of 9 years old in the child prodigy lift, and then awarded the School Secretary; Li Bai, who grew up accepting the Chinese language and the Turkic two languages, at the age of 5 years old, can recite the "Six Armor", when the age of 10 years old, has finished reading all the hundred schools and the book and so on.