When yue fei is mentioned, many people will think of two things: one is a series of deeds of Yue Feijing's loyalty to the country, and the other is his "Man Jiang Hong". However, in recent years, the controversy over whether "Man Jiang Hong" is really written by Yue Fei has now intensified.
So, was "Man Jiang Hong" written by Yue Fei in the end?
Falsification
The main reason for believing that "Manjiang Hong" is a theory forged by the Ming Dynasty is:
first. The word "Manjiang Hong", which is said to have been written by Yue Fei, did not appear until the Ming Dynasty, after the Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty did not have any records of "Manjiang Hong".
second. The main foreign enemy of the Southern Song Dynasty during Yue Fei's time was the Jin Dynasty. The habit of using "Helan Mountain" as a reference to external troubles was the habit of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the falsification faction believes that "Manjiang Hong" was forged by the Ming Dynasty and pretended to be made by Yue Fei.
However, with regard to these arguments, some opponents stated:
First, modern people believe that there was no record of "Manjiang Hong" before the Ming Dynasty, and it is possible that the literature with such records has long ceased to exist;
Second, literature often has a borrowing method. For example, Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song" uses "The Han Emperor's Heavy Color Thinking of the Country" to refer to Tang Xuanzong. And in Tang poetry, taking the Han Dynasty Tang dynasty is a habit. The Song people used Helan Mountain to refer to border troubles, which can also be regarded as a rhetoric.
However, Xiaobian believes that whether "ManJiang Hong" is a forgery should be considered from the following points:
Yue Fei was a man
As a historical celebrity, I personally believe that every historical celebrity has three attributes:
The first, the true self.
The second is the historical figures in propaganda. For example, in propaganda, Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms in order to avoid the suffering of the people of the world. However, the real Qin Shi Huang did not necessarily think so when he annexed the Six Kingdoms.
The third person, a historical figure in literature and art. The difference between this attribute and the second is that the second one often appears in popular history books or history textbooks, nominally having "real historical attributes", while the third is a large proportion of the fabricated component. For example, the Yang family general in the historical novel.
Yue Fei was no exception.
Yue Fei in propaganda was the first loyal subject of the Southern Song Dynasty and a key figure in whether the Southern Song Dynasty could gain a foothold in Jiangnan. However, many of Yue Fei's honors came from the deliberate propaganda of later rulers. As a result, Yue Fei was sometimes sought after by the rulers, but sometimes suppressed by the rulers, even in special years, because Yue Fei tried his best to support the Southern Song Dynasty, and yue Fei's grave was planed.
The real Yue Fei, as a high-ranking official of the Great Song Dynasty, had been in the military and political field of the Southern Song Dynasty for several years, and his state of mind had already been in a stable state. This kind of stability can be described by this sentence: I want to pay my heart to Yaoqin. There are few acquaintances, and whoever listens to the broken strings. (Press: There is conclusive evidence for this poem from Yue Fei's handwriting).
The state of mind expressed in "Man Jiang Hong" is more in line with the words written by a young man who is passionate and indignant, and the mood of Yue Fei at that time is different.
In addition, the word "Man Jiang Hong" is more like a summary of Yue Fei's life, with a characteristic of evaluating Yue Fei from the perspective of future generations, rather than yue Fei's self-summary.
Therefore, in summary: I personally feel that "Man Jiang Hong" is mostly not made by Yue Fei.