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Sima

Sima (Simplified: 司马; Traditional: 司馬; Hanyu Pinyin: Sīmǎ; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ma) is a Chinese family name.

Sima - Prominent people with family name 司馬

• Sima Rangju or Rang Ju, strategist during the Spring and Autumn Period and regarded as the author of Sima Fa ("Sima's Art of War")
• Sima Qian, historian in Western Han Dynasty and author of Records of the Grand Historian
• Sima Xiangru, a minor official in Western Han Dynasty but better known for his poetic skills, Chinese wine (jiu) business and controversial marriage to a widow Zhuo Wenjun after both eloped.
• Sima Yi, renowned strategist during the Three Kingdoms, ultimate adversary of Zhuge Liang in Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the revered progenitor of the Jin Dynasty (265-420).
• Sima Shi, son of Sima Yi
• Sima Zhao, son of Sima Yi and younger brother of Sima Shi, de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Wei and the origin of a Chinese proverb.
• Sima Yan, also known as the Emperor Wu of Jin China, was a son of Sima Zhao. He took the throne of the Kingdom of Wei, proclaimed the Jin Dynasty and unified China.
• another Sima Yi, son of Emperor Wu of Jin China and Prince of Changsha among the Eight Princes
• the ruling family of Jin Dynasty (265-420).
• Sima Guang, historian and stateman during the Song Dynasty (960-1279), 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 - Related Materials

• Sima's family tree of the Western Jin dynasty

sima is same as [ugali]

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