司马光砸缸的故事记载在《宋史·司马光传》里：「群儿戏于庭，一儿登瓮，足跌没水中，众皆弃去，光持石击瓮破之，水迸，儿得活。」司马光后来成为北宋著名的政治家和史学家，他主持编写的《资治通鉴》，前后用了十九年才完成。

The story of Sima Guang breaking the vat is recorded in his biography in the History of Song: a group of children were playing in a courtyard when one climbed onto a big water jar, slipped and fell in; the others all ran away, but Sima Guang picked up a stone and smashed the jar, the water gushed out, and the child was saved. Sima Guang later became a famous statesman and historian of the Northern Song, and the great history he led, the Zizhi Tongjian, took nineteen years to complete.

原文里写的其实是「瓮」，一种肚子大、口子小的陶制大容器，所以孩子掉进去很难被从上面拉出来。北宋僧人惠洪的《冷斋夜话》还记载，这件事在当时就很出名，京城洛阳一带有不少人画《小儿击瓮图》来传颂它。

The original text actually says weng, a large pottery jar with a wide belly and a narrow mouth, which is why a child who fell in could hardly be pulled out from above. The Northern Song monk Huihong also wrote in his Night Talks from the Cold Studio that the story was already famous at the time, and many people around the capital painted pictures of the boy breaking the jar.

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