Recently, the popularity of the costume TV series "Daming Fenghua" has made many viewers have a strong interest in the history of the Ming Dynasty. However, people who really understand the history of this period may feel that this TV series has a lot of complaints. Today we will talk about what is not in line with the real history in "Daming Style", although there is no need to be too real with the TV series, but it is always good for you to know more historical knowledge.
First, "Emperor" and "Emperor" were not the same thing in ancient times
The title of Zhu Di in "Daming Fenghua" is more confusing, sometimes calling him "emperor" and sometimes calling him "emperor". To modern people, it all seems to be the same. But in ancient times, the two names were very different. According to the ancient etiquette law, the emperor's father (Emperor Taishang) and mother (empress dowager) were directly called emperors, and others could only be called emperors, saints, presents, shang, his majesty, and long live. In "The Style of the Great Ming Dynasty", people often call him emperor in front of Zhu Di, which in real history belongs to the crime of "great disrespect" (one of the most heinous felonies).
Second, the human design is reversed
In "Daming Style", the heroine Sun Ruowei has a big heart and does not care about personal gains and losses. Although the female number two Hu Shanxiang is clever and clever, she has a deep heart. Later, the two successively became Zhu Zhanji's empresses, but Hu Shanxiang's cleverness was mistaken by cleverness, and as a result, he was deposed. Sun Ruowei did not argue or grab, but became the final winner. However, these character settings are far from real history. In history, Hu Shanxiang was loyal and kind, and was a true empress dowager, but Empress Sun was supported by the side chamber as the main chamber. Although the history books do not say that Empress Sun played any tricks in this process, the harem palace fight has always been between you and me, Hu Shanxiang was deposed for no reason, and Empress Sun could not be unrelated. Moreover, the historical Hu Shanxiang was suppressed by Empress Sun for the rest of his life, until Empress Sun died, and her son Ming Yingzong restored the name of Hu Shanxiang, who had long died. "Daming Style" is set against the backdrop of historical figures, but it plays good people into bad people, which is really unacceptable.
Third, Nuer Gandusi is not a place of exile
The "Great Ming Style" repeatedly mentions the 30,000 "Orphans of JingNan" in Nuer Gandusi, but in history, the criminal ministers of the Ming Dynasty were all sent to the southern regions, such as today's Hainan and Guangxi. Sending criminals and their families to the northeast for hard labor was done by the Qing Dynasty, which is the famous line we often hear in TV dramas: "Send ningguta, and enslave people with armor." I don't know whether the original author or screenwriter of "Daming Fenghua" did not understand the difference between the two, and constantly repeated to release the 30,000 "Jingnan Orphans" of Nuer Gandusi, which is really laughable.
Fourth, the timeline is chaotic
The second half of episode 1 of "The Style of Daming" is the return of The Banshi after the victory of Zhu Di's expedition to the Mongolian ArutaiBu, and this event occurred in history in the eighth year of Yongle (1410) of the Ming Dynasty. However, in the following episodes, Zhu Di ordered Zheng He to go to the West on the one hand, and on the other hand, let Xie Jin preside over the editing of the Yongle Canon. These two events occurred in the third year of Yongle (1405) and the fifth year of Yongle (1407 AD), is this a crossing? Situations like this timeline don't match abound in the show, and I won't list them all here.
5. Reconciliation between Emperor Jianwen and Zhu Di?
In episodes 16 and 17 of "The Style of Daming", Emperor Jianwen, who has become a monk, meets with Zhu Di in a pagoda, and the two uncles and nephews meet and laugh and hate each other. However, the historical Jianwen Emperor was completely evaporated from the human world. Ever since Zhu Di led his army into Nanjing, Emperor Jianwen had disappeared. There are claims of his whereabouts such as self-immolation and death, renunciation as a monk, and escape to the Daomen, but there is no substantial evidence. Emperor Jianwen's brothers and sons were all persecuted by Zhu Di, so it was absolutely impossible to reconcile between Emperor Jianwen and Zhu Di in history.
6. Does the Military Department have the power to fight?
For example, in episode 5, the King of Han and the King of Zhao planned to rebel and said that arrangements had been made on the side of the army, giving people the feeling that as long as they controlled the army, they could control the entire Ming Army. However, in fact, the military department in the early Ming Dynasty was only a department that "beat soy sauce", and its function was to select military attaches to teach examination courses and military administrative affairs such as military system, ordnance, and military status management. The real military power is in the hands of the emperor himself and the governor of the five armies (this institution is not mentioned in the "Daming Fenghua").
In addition to the above six mistakes, there are many "hard wounds" in "Daming Fenghua", such as the prince Zhu Gaozi does not do the right thing every day (the historical Zhu Gaozi was responsible for the construction and governance of the new capital in Beijing most of the time), Xie Jin was exiled (the historical Xie Jin was buried in the snow pile by Zhu Di and froze to death), etc., but due to the length of the article, I will not repeat it here. Although "Daming Style" is only a TV series based on entertainment, since it is based on history, there should not be so many mistakes in some basic historical common sense, and it should not reverse the black and white of the characters for the needs of the plot and confuse the public.