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Sima Hui was a scholar and Teacher.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Other names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|
| Courtesy name |
Decao |
德操 |
Decao |
| Epithet |
Water Mirror |
水鏡 |
Shuijing |
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Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 37Volume 37: Book of Shu 7: Biographies of Pang Tong and Fa Zheng · 7 passages
潁川司馬徽清雅有知人鑒，統弱冠往見徽，徽採桑於樹上，坐統在樹下，共語自晝至夜。
Sima Hui of Yingchuan was elegant and had a gift for sizing people up. When Tong came of age he paid him a visit: Hui was in a mulberry tree gathering leaves, had Tong sit below, and they conversed from dawn into the night.
徽甚異之，稱統當南州士之冠冕，由是漸顯。
Hui found him remarkable and said Tong would stand first among the gentlemen of the south; thereafter Tong’s name slowly spread.
〈《襄陽記》曰：諸葛孔明為臥龍，龐士元為鳳雛，司馬德操為水鏡，皆龐德公語也。
〈The Xiangyang Ji records that people called Zhuge Liang the Sleeping Dragon, Pang Tong the Fledgling Phoenix, and Sima Hui the Clear Mirror of Water—epithets attributed to Pang Degong.
德操嘗造德公，值其渡沔，上祀先人墓，德操徑入其室，呼德公妻子，使速作黍，「徐元直向雲有客當來就我與龐公譚。」
Once Sima Hui called on Degong while Degong was away—he had crossed the Han to tend his ancestors’ graves uphill. Hui walked straight in, told Degong’s wife and children to cook millet quickly, and said, “Xu Shu mentioned that a guest would come visit me and Master Pang.”
德操年小德公十歲，兄事之，呼作龐公，故世人遂謂龐公是德公名，非也。
Hui was ten years Degong’s junior yet honored him like an elder and called him “Lord Pang,” so folk mistook “Lord Pang” for Degong’s personal name—incorrectly.
統，德公從子也，少未有識者，惟德公重之，年十八，使往見德操。
Tong was Degong’s nephew. As a youth none praised him except Degong; at eighteen Degong sent him to meet Sima Hui.
德操與語，既而嘆曰：「德公誠知人，此實盛德也。」〉
After talking with him, Hui sighed, “Degong truly knows men—this is real moral discernment.”〉