What made the world laugh about Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty?

Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty Sima Zhong (259-307), courtesy name Zhengdu, was the second son of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty Sima Yan[1], and his mother was Empress Wuyuan Yang Yan, the second emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, 290- Reigned in 307. Reigned for 17 years.

Emperor Jin Hui is a famous idiot emperor in history.

Sima Zhong had a low IQ since he was a child, and Sima Yan was very worried about this, fearing that Sima Zhong would lose the family business created by his ancestors. Once, in order to test Sima Zhong's thinking ability, Sima Yan specially asked him a few questions and gave him three days to submit the papers. After Sima Zhong got the question, he didn't know how to answer it. His wife Jia Nanfeng was a very smart person. Seeing this, she immediately invited several learned old gentlemen to answer Sima Zhong's problems. After reading the answer sheet, Sima Yan felt that his son's thinking was still very clear, so he felt relieved. But after Sima Yan died and Sima Zhong came to the throne, he was asked to make his own decisions when encountering problems, which caused a lot of jokes.

For example, one summer, Sima Zhong and his entourage went to Hualin Garden to play. They walked to a pond and heard the sound of frogs croaking inside. Sima Zhong felt very strange, so he asked his followers whether these croaking things were for official or private purposes. The attendant said: "If you call someone in an official's house, it belongs to the official family; if you call someone in a private house, it belongs to a private person."

The most famous one is the following one. One year there was a famine, the people had no food to eat, and people starved to death everywhere. Someone reported the situation to Sima Zhong, but Sima Zhong said to the reporter: "There is no food to eat, why don't they eat meat porridge?" The reporter heard this and couldn't laugh or cry. The victims couldn't even eat, so where could they get the meat porridge? Woolen cloth? This shows how stupid and confused Sima Zhong is.