TV dramas with historical themes are very popular in countries around the world, and people love to have their familiar or unfamiliar history on the screen.
However, historical interpretation within a reasonable range is a normal phenomenon for literary and artistic creation, but in countless film and television dramas, there are always a few popular film and television dramas that distort facts and reverse black and whiteWhitewash historical figures with bad deeds or discredit historical figures who were originally positive
This behavior is very despicable because:There is a threshold for reading history, but there is basically no threshold for watching film and television dramas, and popular film and television dramas simply transmit wrong ideas to the general public, but it is extremely difficult to correct the wrong perceptions in people's hearts, which is simply a vicious act.
Today, let's take a look at which four notorious historical figures have been whitewashed into virtuous and kind people in film and television dramas, and see how these film and television dramas distort the facts.
Do you know who the first empress dowager in Chinese history was? I don't believe that many people who have watched the TV series "The Legend of Miyue" know this knowledge, becauseWhen "The Legend of Miyue" was broadcast, it was promoted with the title of "the first queen mother in Chinese history".
The TV series "The Legend of Miyue" can be said to be very hot when it was **Even the Empress Dowager Xuan with "Mi Yue" has also entered people's field of vision, and this Queen Mother who dares to love and hate, is wise and virtuous, and is loved by many people
But in fact,In history, the prototype of "Miyue", Empress Dowager Xuan, is not accurately named, She does have the surname Mi but is not called Yue, and it is only recorded in the history books that she is a native of Chu, and her position is "eight sons" after marrying King Qin Huiwen as a concubine, thereforeDuring her lifetime, it was most accurate for people to call her "Mi Bazi".
Empress Dowager Xuan was very important to the history of the Qin stateAfter the death of King Wu of Qin, Yingji, the son of the eighth son of Mi, succeeded to the throne as the king of QinSo as a mother, Mi Bazi took charge of government affairs.
In the TV series, it is said that the Empress Dowager Xuan and the King of Yiqu had an affair because of love, and the Empress Dowager Xuan attached great importance to love and righteousness, but in the end, she could only kill the King of Yiqu in grief for the sake of the country, but the Empress Dowager Xuan in the history books is not like thisThe purpose of her fornication with King Yiqu was to solve the Yiqu State that was causing chaos on the border of Qin at that time, and even the final booby trap of King Yiqu was a long-term conspiracy with her son King Qin Zhaoxiang, is not as affectionate as it is said in the TV series.
Not only that, although Empress Dowager Xuan has an important positive role in the history of the Qin State, she can't be praised too much because of it like in the TV series, becauseThe reuse of her own brothers during the reign of Empress Dowager Xuan also caused serious chaos among Qin's relatives, and even their ambitions almost led to Qin's usurpation by the emperor
Therefore, although "The Legend of Miyue" is a hit, people can't fully believe the content in it, and the image of Empress Dowager Xuan in history is mixed.
In 2013, the hit TV series "The Legend of Lu Zhen" caught the history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the history of China that was extremely chaotic but unpopular and little-known.
The background of this TV series is the Northern Qi regime during the Northern and Southern DynastiesThe heroine is called Lu Zhen, but those who are familiar with the history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties can see at a glance that Lu Zhen's prototype is actually Lu Lingxuan, the most famous court lady in the Northern Qi Dynasty
In the TV series,Lu Zhen was fell in love with the crown prince Gao Zhan after becoming a palace maid, but because of the gap in status, the two eventually fell in love but could not be together, Lu Zhen carefully helped Gao Zhan clear the obstacles and ascended to the throne, and after Gao Zhan passed away, Lu Zhen also assisted the young emperor who succeeded to the throne and became the world-famous female prime minister at that time
But Lu Lingxuan in history is almost the opposite of Lu ZhenShe is not a virtuous female prime minister, but one of the culprits who led to the demise of the Northern Qi Dynasty
Lu Lingxuan was married before entering the palace, but because her husband was planning to rebel, she was convicted of entering the palace as a slave, and then became the nurse of Gao Zhan's son Gao Wei, watching Gao Wei grow up.
The most different thing from the TV series is,There is no love relationship between Lu Lingxuan and Gao Zhan, and the lowly Lu Lingxuan can't get into Gao Zhan's eyes, and after Gao Zhan succeeded to the throne, he was rewarded by the emperor and queen for his contribution to raising the prince Gao Wei, and gradually gained status
After that, Gao Wei succeeded to the throne at a young age and had no ability to govern, and he trusted Lu Lingxuan, the nurse who raised him, very much, so he let Lu Lingxuan have a huge power to help assist the government, soLu Lingxuan became one of the most noble women in Northern Qi, and she could even be on an equal footing with the Queen Mother
But Lu Lingxuan didn't do anything good after she came to powerNot only is it corrupt, but it even causes chaos in the palace, and only one hand covers the sky in the palace, became the de facto ruler of the Northern Qi Dynasty, andGao Wei was indulged in fun, and the Northern Qi Dynasty went to extinction because of this, it is not an exaggeration to say that Lu Lingxuan was a demon queen of the dead country, and the TV series actually beautified her as a virtuous female prime minister, which is really ridiculous
Yang Guifei, one of the four beauties of ancient China, has always been blamed as the mainstream in history, but after modern times, her concept has changed and she has gradually been sympathized with by people, believing that the cause of a country's turmoil cannot be blamed on a woman.
This statement is actually reasonable, after all, it was Tang Xuanzong himself who began to become mediocre first, and favored Yang Guifei later, and it is inevitably biased to completely blame Yang Guifei for the sins of the Tang Dynasty's transformation from prosperity to decline.
ButIt is also incorrect for film and television dramas to follow this trend and whitewash Yang Guifei into complete innocence, for example, in the movies"The Legend of the Demon Cat".From the perspective of the poet Bai Juyi, Yang Guifei was favored by Tang Xuanzong as one of the representative symbols of the Tang Dynasty in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but when it came to the Anshi Rebellion and Ma Wei's mutiny, Tang Xuanzong abandoned Yang Guifei for his own life, and Yang Guifei died tragically in despair and pain.
However, Yang Guifei was not such an innocent existence in history, and she was blamed by later generations because of arrogance to a certain extent.
People are familiar with it"When the concubine laughs on the red dust, no one knows that it is a lychee".This sentence, this can actually show Yang Yuhuan's pamperingIn ancient times, when transportation was not developed, she was just one person who wanted to eat lychees, and the people below had to travel thousands of miles from Lingnan to Chang'an, what kind of luxury and waste was this?
Therefore, one cannot sympathize with Yang Yuhuan endlessly just because of her tragic end.
In addition to the above three women who are known as "woe country" in the TV series because of love, they were whitewashed,There is also an emperor who behaves very absurdly, and because of the whitewashing of the TV series, there are many more people who speak for him, and this emperor is Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen
There are two famous ministers by the West Lake, one is Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the other is Yu Qian of the Ming DynastyAnd Yu Qian was killed by Zhu Qizhen
Zhu Qizhen is ambitious, but his ability is not worthy of ambitionHe wanted to follow the example of his grandfather Zhu Di and his father Zhu Zhanji, but he didn't expect to be captured, which put the Ming dynasty in danger
Fortunately, his younger brother took over this mess, and Yu Qian assisted in government affairs and supported the defense of Beijing, otherwise Daming Jiangshan is likely to come to an end because of the absurdity of Zhu Qizhen, thereforeIt can be said that at least half of the rivers and mountains in the 276 years of the Ming Dynasty were prolonged by Yu Qian.
However, loyal ministers like Yu Qian did not save Zhu Qizhen because they made the right choice, which led Zhu Qizhen to kill Yu Qian and other ministers who were trying to turn the tide during his capture immediately after the restoration.
But in the TV series"The Biography of the Female Doctor Ming Concubine"., in order to allow the smart and gentle heroine to fall in love with a good emperor,even portrayed Zhu Qizhen as a Ming Jun who worries about the country and the people and tries his best to defend the country, which is extremely ridiculous
As a medium for conveying values, TV dramas must maintain a correct view of right and wrong, and cannot do such an act of seriously distorting history for the sake of the plot.
"Using history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall", but if people can't even learn the correct history through TV dramas, then what can we talk about?