In the novel, Cheng Biting Jin is a mangy man, the origin is not very good, in the novel "Sui and Tang Dynasty", Cheng Biting Jin's three-plate axe was still learned in his sleep, but because of his poor memory, he needs to say the name first, and then he will think of the move, and later people call his move "three axes and a half", and then evolved the phrase "three plate axes - only a few moves".
In the novel "Speaking of The Whole Biography of Tang Dynasty", cheng bit jin's family was poor and jingle, the old mother was weak and sick, the whole family relied on Cheng biting jin to sell bamboo baskets in the market to make a living, there was a robber named You Junda who co-opted Cheng bit jin and robbed the imperial gang with him, and the sui emperor's imperial gang was intercepted by Cheng biting jin three times during the escort, so there was a "halfway kill cheng biting gold".
Is the historical Cheng Yaojin really a mangy man from a poor background? After the tomb of Cheng Biting Jin was excavated, experts found a stone, and the secret of the Cheng Biting Jin family reappeared in the world. In 1986, archaeologists excavated the tomb of Cheng Yaojin, and although Cheng's tomb had been patronized by thieves, experts found a very valuable stone.
This stone is the epitaph of Cheng Yaojin, which clearly records the lineage and family of Cheng Yaojin, subverting people's previous understanding of Cheng Biting Jin, the epitaph records: "Zeng Zuxing, Sima of Qi Yanzhou; Zu Zhe, Sima of Qi Huangzhou", which tells that Cheng Yaojin's great-grandfather served as Sima of Yanzhou in Northern Qi, and his grandfather also served as Sima of Huangzhou in Northern Qi, all of which belonged to local high-ranking officials.
In addition, the epitaph reads "Father Lou, Jeju Dazhongzheng", Cheng Biting Jin's father also held a considerable official position, so Cheng Biting Jin was born in a family of officials and eunuchs, generations have been officials, the family is naturally not poor, not the process of biting Jin chose a complete path with the ancestors, Cheng Biting Jin's family is mostly civilian officials, Cheng Biting Jin is very fond of learning martial arts, and what he thinks in his heart is to lead the soldiers to fight.
In the last year of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and Li Mi, the great-grandson of The famous Western Wei general Li Bi, was reused by Li Mi, who often said to people: "These eight thousand people (led by Cheng Zhijin) are worth a million troops", after the failure of Li Mi and Wang Shichong of the Hu people in the Western Regions, Cheng Biting Jin was captured and later reused by Wang Shichong.
However, Cheng Yaojin thought that Wang Shichong was too cunning, and after learning of the Tang army, he attached himself to Li Yuan, the grandson of the famous Western Wei general Li Hu, and Li Yuan let Cheng Bite Jin and others follow his son Li Shimin, who had already heard of Cheng Biting Jin's prestige, and let Cheng Bite Jin become the left third unified army and became the founding general of the Tang Dynasty.
In 626 AD, the change of XuanwuMen, Cheng Biting Jin participated in it, Cheng Biting Jinguan was promoted to the Right Wu Wei General, enjoying the actual sealing of seven hundred households, and later Cheng Biting Jin was promoted all the way to the official, it can be seen that Cheng Biting Jin was not a mangy man, but also a figure who knew how to deal with people, on February 7 of the second year of Linde, the 77-year-old Cheng Biting Jin died in his private residence and was buried in the original of jiujia mountain.