Wu Dalang's Mausoleum Revealed More than 600 years of "rumors" have finally been debunked, what happened?
The four great masterpieces of China are the treasures of Chinese history and literature, carrying the pinnacle of ancient Chinese literature, but art articles are only art after all, and they cannot be taken seriously, and if they are too popular, they will make people prejudiced. Many people scoff at the canonical history.
While writers love to use fiction to express feelings or reveal reality, what would you do if reality was the opposite?
Archaeological experts discovered the tomb of Wu Dalang, and their discovery was really surprising. Wu Dalang in reality is diametrically opposed to Wu Dalang in film and television works, if there is a difference, it is understandable, but what such a stark contrast points to is bizarre.
Wu Dalang in movies and television.
Shi Nai'an's Wu Dalang's family lives in Qinghe, his parents died when he was a child, his family is poor, and he supports his younger brother Wu Song by selling cakes.
Wu Dalang is short and less than 1 in height2 meters, very old-fashioned face, wearing a stretcher on the street every day, but he has a beautiful wife, Pan.
Wu Dalang sold bread all his life, saving money for his younger brother to learn art. The younger brother Wu Song is handsome and chic, strong in martial arts, and is praised as a talent. Two years after leaving home, Wu Song, who had killed the tiger, enlisted in the army, met his younger brother Wu Dalang in the army, and the two returned to their hometown together.
When Wu Song returned home, he saw his aunt Pan Jinlian as soon as he opened the door. Pan Jinlian introduced Wu Song to him, but she didn't want Pan Jinlian's attitude towards Wu Song to be like a little uncle.
After dinner, Pan Jinlian deliberately let Wu Dalang go back to the room drunk, and taunted Wu Song with words in the living room downstairs, Wu Song was unmoved, Pan Jinlian began to beat Wu Song with his hands and feet, so that Wu Song was unconscious, Wu Song pushed him to the ground, and Wu Song categorically refused. Pan Jinlian was so angry that she forced Wu Dalang to take Wu Song away the next day.
After Wu Song left, Pan Jinlian, at Wang Mao's insistence, immediately had a relationship with Ximenqing on the opposite side. Ximenqing is a well-known nouveau riche, although he has a family, but this person is also a tyrant in the local area, seeing Pan Jinlian's dignified appearance, he secretly vowed to take her down.
At a dinner organized by Grandma Wang, the two committed adultery, and they went back and forth together several times, and the neighbors knew about it, only Wu Dalang himself was still in the dark.
A young man named Brother Yun couldn't get used to Grandma Wang's behavior, so he told Wu Dalang and took Wu Dalang to Grandma Wang's house"**", I didn't expect to be bumped into by Ximenqing and Pan Jinlian.
Wuda wanted to beat Ximenqing, but Ximenqing knew that Ximenqing was short and insecure, so he kicked him in the heart, seriously injured him, and died on the gurney.
Pan Jinlian didn't know him, but they still met Ximenqing every day, and after a long time, when they saw Wu Dalang who was half dead on the bed, Pan Jinlian got up to kill him, fed Wu Dalang and drank the soup with arsenic, and Wu Dalang died like that.
After Wu Dalang's death, Wu Song learned that his brother had been poisoned and vowed to avenge his brother. After some investigation, he found that Pan Jinlian was the culprit who killed Wu Dalang, so he forced Pan Jinlian to tell the truth. Pan Jinlian couldn't bear it anymore and told the truth, but she didn't want Wu Song to sacrifice her brother and Ximenqing and be killed.
Restore the real Wu Dalang in the ancient tomb.
In ** and the movie, Wu Dalang is weak and incompetent, always wants to shirk responsibility in everything, and is finally poisoned by his wife, which is sad and lamentable. However, there is also a character named Wu Dalang in real life, whose real situation is completely different from that in film and television works.
In the winter of 1992, archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb of the Ming Dynasty in Wujia Village, Qinghe County, and the epitaph clearly wrote the life of the owner of the tomb: martial arts name Tianling, the young man said Dalang, and the twilight of the four elders said. Mrs. Pan, a famous lady.
Check the ancient records, Wu Zhi is the Ming Dynasty Yongle period of Hebei Qinghe Yanggu County magistrate, married wife Pan Jinlian, according to research, Wu Zhi lost his father and mother since he was a child, and grew up with his grandmother, although the family is poor, often not full of food and clothing, but Wu Zhi has grown into a tall man of about 1.8 meters.
He has been very smart since he was a child, and he also advocates martial arts and hones his martial arts. He and Pan Jinlian are childhood sweethearts and like each other very much.
Pan's father saw that he was handsome and dashing, and his daughter liked him, so he agreed to this family affair and let his daughter marry him. The Pan family in Qinghe County is also a scholarly family, and Pan Jinlian is the daughter of a large family, who has read poetry and books since she was a child.
After Wu Zhi got married and started a business, it was time to make a career. During the Yongle period, he was admitted to the Jinshi, and the imperial court awarded him the Yanggu County Order, and the official was up to the seventh grade.
In the years when Wu Zhi was in politics, he acted impartially, honestly and honestly, and handled many difficult cases for the people, and the honest and honest Wu Zhi was deeply loved by the people, and his wife also gave birth to several children, and his life was very happy.
Why do two people with very different personalities have a relationship, whether what is written on the tombstone is true, 600 years ago"Factual situation"The result?
600 years of rumors debunked.
Although Wu Zhi's tomb has been discovered, the inscription on the tombstone has been transformed by today's people, and it cannot be proved to be the real situation. In addition, from the perspective of time, Wu Zhen is actually not the prototype of Wu Dalang in film and television dramas.
First of all, Wu Zhi was a Xiucai in the Yongle period, born in 1403 and died in 1424, so he was only 21 years old at the time, and Wu Dalang in "Water Margin" was 40 years old when he died, which is not accurate in age.
The second author is Shi Nai'an, who was born in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. The Water Margin was written during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, that is, during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, and the author died of illness in 1371.
Wu Zhi was born in 1403, during the reign of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, and it is unlikely that the author will write about a man who was born nearly 30 years later.
These two doubts are also considered to be a difficult problem for historical research to discover the truth. Let's assume that the story of Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian in "Water Margin" must be what Shi Nai'an has seen and heard, plus his own imagination, after all, art is in life.
The status of "Water Margin" in the history of Chinese literature is self-evident, but it is based on ** as the background after all, and cannot be regarded as real history.
Although we believe that the rumors in the book were written by Shi Nai'an's hearsay, and Shi Nai'an's descendants also wrote a letter of apology for it, this does not affect the high literary achievement of "Water Margin".
China has advanced for 5,000 years, and in the long course of history, such things must be countless, so that Wu Dalang has become synonymous with bad people, and Pan Jinlian has become the embodiment of a poisonous woman. We hope that everyone will remain sane and not be confused by prejudice and rumors and label characters.
Perhaps Shi Nai'an did not realize that the book was only hearsay stories, and these stories were endlessly expanded by later generations. A sentence in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" tells the true story:"The bitterness and happiness are uneven, and the mediocrity disturbs itself"。