In the long history of our country, countless celebrities and talents have emerged. Some of them are brilliant, some are brilliant, and some are exquisite in writing, leaving valuable literary wealth for future generations. Then China's four most precious literary masterpieces, The Water Margin, have been passed down to this day with its excellent and readable contents. Many classic jokes are still familiar to people, such as the stories of Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing, and the image of Wu Dalang, Pan Jinlian's husband who has been teased for a long time. Some misunderstandings about Wu Dalang's characters were uncovered by archaeologists only in modern times. Readers are fascinated by this wonderful story, but they are also deceived by it.
In The Water Margin, the author mainly tells the touching stories of some heroes who became outlaws in the Northern Song Dynasty who opposed the decadent court and were later recruited. Many characters in this book have no happy endings. However, the tragic ending of the characters in the book has not lost its literary connotation because it is a tragedy, but is more literary because life is full of tragedies. However, the reason why Water Margin can be circulated for hundreds of years is also because the author's portrayal of the characters in the book is too appropriate. There are many characters, but they don't seem to overlap at all On the contrary, every character has distinct personality characteristics, as if readers can feel that such an era really exists. It is precisely because of the profound description of the characters' psychology and image that almost hundreds of millions of people have read this classic, which has invisibly caused a misunderstanding, that is, quite a few people regard the characters in the book as real people in history. This is because the author's superb writing ability and most people still don't understand history after all.
And what we are going to talk about today is an image of a villain-Wu Dalang. In the Water Margin, Wu Dalang is bound to be associated with his wife Pan Jinlian, because in the book, their combination is very dramatic. Wu Dalang's appearance is really hard for ordinary people to see directly, and it has physical defects that can't be ignored. And Wu Dalang didn't get an official position, just a common people at the bottom of society. Where's Pan Jinlian? Taking such a fancy name, even the appearance is more delicate than flowers, and when the author depicts Pan Jinlian, it also highlights Pan Jinlian's infidelity. Easy virtue, such an ugly man, married such a beautiful wife. Perhaps the author also laid the groundwork for Pan Jinlian's affair with others later, but it is obvious that the author really has no sympathy for Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian and tried his best. As a novel, Water Margin has achieved a success that the author certainly can't imagine.
So did the talented characters in the book really exist in history? Yes, at least Pan Jinlian and Wu Dalang are real. You may not have heard of Song Jiang, Chao Gai and others, but you must have heard the ethical stories of Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing. One of the reasons why Pan Jinlian and Wu Dalang attracted so many people's attention was that they exposed the complexity of human nature and vividly showed many primitive human nature to readers. If you want to introduce a character in the book, such as Lu who uprooted weeping willows, it may arouse people's memories of Lu, but when introducing Pan Jinlian and his wife, you only need to mention a biscuit vendor and an immoral woman, which will definitely make people remember who is who. And in the book, Wu Dalang also has a younger brother, Song Wu and Song Wu. They once did something that challenged the limits of human beings-they killed a tiger after being drunk, which fully reflected Song Wu's personal image and almost became famous in World War I. The two brothers and sisters were in the same breath, and their images were tit for tat.
However, is the real Wu Dalang in history really as miserable as it is written in the book? The prototype of Wu Dalang was taken from a man named Wu Zhi in Ming Dynasty. Wu Zhi also made a modest county magistrate, which was relatively clean during his reign. 1996, archaeologists in China discovered a tomb where Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian were buried. In the tomb, they also found an apology letter left by the descendants of the author of Water Margin to Wu Dalang, expressing their apologies for smearing Wu Dalang's reputation. According to the research of many experts, this letter has high credibility. Wu Dalang himself is not a dwarf, but a man with a height of 1.8 meters. His wife, Pan Jinlian, is also very virtuous and has a good background at home. The combination of two people can be said to be the embodiment of true love. Then why is there such a distorted story in Water Margin?
Experts speculate that a friend of Wu Dalang's came to ask him for help. Maybe Wu Dalang didn't take care of this friend warmly enough for business reasons, and his friend felt left out. In a rage, he slandered Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian outside to vent his anger in Europe. But this friend won't think that rumors are like chicken feathers, which look very light and can't be found once they are blown away. Perhaps no matter when, people's envy and jealousy of unfounded rumors and happy families will never disappear. In short, the rumors of Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian spread like this, and the more they spread, the wider they spread. In the Song Dynasty, the author of this book only heard about this famous story, so without much verification, he recorded this intriguing gossip in his works. After all, this is a good writing material. At this point, Wu Dalang's century-old scam was uncovered by experts, because a novel, a distorted emotion and an absurd rumor made today's Wu Dalang selling baked wheat cakes!
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History doesn't always tell us the truth. The ancient emperor ordered hundreds of officials to study history. It is very likely that the emperor concealed something and even distorted the truth in order to beautify himself. As a reader, we should look at it with a dialectical and thoughtful brain, look at everything from our own perspective, and look for our own truth.