The Song Dynasty, which was another prosperous period after the tang dynasty, ended the chaotic situation of the warlords of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, brought about a relatively peaceful and stable social environment, and its culture, economy, science, and politics all reached a highly prosperous realm; the famous inventions such as gunpowder, compass, and movable type printing were all born in this period and had a very profound impact on future generations.
Among them, the military field of the Song Dynasty has always been talked about. In the history of the Song Dynasty, cavalry was weak and infantry was strong. Among them, the most famous among the infantry is the Yang family generals born in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, whose legends and stories of defending the country were well-known and widely circulated at that time, and they can still be seen in many film and television works.
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The Yang family will make good use of marksmanship, Yangmen Qilang will be brave and good at fighting, and Yangmen female generals will not let su mei. The Yang family dedicated their life's work to the Great Song Dynasty. However, in today's peaceful era, where has the descendants of the Yang family general, who has a unique ancestral marksmanship, gone? The extant Yang family will be the thirty-seventh generation of people to express: pain. What is going on, the Yang family will eventually pass away a generation of magnificent legends?
Full of loyal yang family generals
The Yang family generals, originally originated from the famous General Yang Jiye of the Northern Song Dynasty, known for their bravery and good warfare, with a nine-ring golden blade in their hands, conquered the four directions, and made great military achievements, known as "Yang Invincible", because of their merits, they successively served as observation envoys, taiwei, and jiedu envoys.
Yang Jiye was born during the Northern Han Dynasty, defending the border for the Northern Han Dynasty, during which he accumulated rich experience in war. After the fall of the Northern Han Dynasty and the surrender of the Han lords, only Yang Jiye still insisted on resisting and fighting to the death. Emperor Taizong of Song, who had already learned of Yang Jiye's prestige, personally recruited And made him a great general, which made Liu Jiye surrender to the Northern Song Dynasty, and thus officially opened a generation of legends of the Yang family generals in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Ancient battlefields
During Yang Jiye's appointment as a general, he made great contributions to defeating the Liao army and defending the frontier. His son Yang Yanyu died on the battlefield, and after Yang Yan himself was captured, he resolutely did not yield to the enemy, went on a hunger strike for three days, preferred to die unyieldingly, and finally sacrificed heroically, with the death of Mingzhi, to repay the favor of Emperor Taizong of Song.
And Yang Jiye's second generation of Yang Yanzhao, also deeply rooted in Yang Jiye's true heritage, from a young age to show interest in military warfare and talent, so it is very much valued by Yang Jiye, Yang Jiye often takes him to personally guide and teach, in this kind of growing environment, Yang Yanzhao also became an excellent general when he grew up.
Yang Yanzhao in film and television dramas
In addition to killing all sides on the battlefield, he has repeatedly won victories. Yang Yanzhao himself was also strict in style and selfless dedication, inheriting the fine mantle of his father Yang Jiye. On the battlefield, he shared weal and woe with the soldiers, did not seek selfishness or engage in specialness, and was a pioneer soldier, and the rewards for their military achievements were often given to all of their subordinate soldiers and shared the fruits of their labor; therefore, Yang Yanzhao was very popular with the military, won many battles and victories, made great contributions to guarding the border defense and defending the country, and guarded the frontier all his life, and was very loved by the people.
At the same time, Yang Yanzhao's brave and good fighting also constituted a certain deterrent to the border Liao state. The Liao people believe that among the seven stars of the Big Dipper in the sky, only the sixth star is the nemesis of the Liao state, so the Liao people believe that Yang Yanzhao is the reincarnation of the sixth Liao country nemesis, and Yang Yanzhao happens to be the sixth son of Yang Jiye, so Yang Yanzhao is also named "Yang Liulang".
Film and television drama Yang Wenguang
Later, Yang Yanzhao's son Yang Wenguang also made great contributions to defending his family and repelling Western Xia. However, due to the stability of the Northern Song Dynasty's external military diplomacy at that time, it advocated the revision of wen and yanwu internally. Therefore, Yang Wenguang's lofty ideal of recovering Youyan and pacifying the north has not been effectively implemented, and his merits cannot be compared with those of his father and his father. However, the great deeds of the three generations of the Yang family who were loyal to the country were famous in the Northern Song Dynasty and were deeply rooted in the tens of millions of cities.
Even Ouyang Xiu once praised the Yang family general in this way:
"Father and son are famous generals, and their wisdom and courage are said to be invincible, and they are still the people of the world, and as for Li'er Yezhu, they can all be able to do it"
Unfortunately, with the gradual decline and weakness of the Northern Song Dynasty, the shame of Jing Kang aggravated the fall and turmoil of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the famous Yang family general eventually failed to withstand the decadent political system of the Song Dynasty and was falsely accused and slandered by the traitors; the famous Yangmen Qilang Eight Tigers were surrounded and suppressed in the "Double Dragon Banquet" between Song Taizong and the Liao Emperor, and suffered heavy losses. At the same time, the dark society at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and the people under the invasion of the Liao State did not have a good life, which also made the people more nostalgic for the heroic deeds of the former Yang family to guard the frontier.
A turbulent battlefield
Later, the Yang family was wiped out in the confrontation with the Mongol army, in order to eliminate the disaster. Therefore, most of the descendants of the Yang family were persecuted and displaced, and they could really be regarded as "full of loyal martyrs"; after suffering this disaster, along with the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yang family no longer had anyone to join the army and defend the frontier. Fortunately, the Yang family was not completely extinct in this scourge, and at that time, some of the Yang family scattered their descendants and fled in all directions, only to be spared.
Yang family monuments
To this day, the remains of the temples and monuments left in many places also tell the glory and heroic legend of the Yang family. At Gubeikou, the pass where the border defense of the ancient Great Wall has the most wars, there is still a Yang Linggong Temple set up to commemorate the Yang family general, and there are plaques on both sides of the door that read, "The Yang family is loyal in their work, and a special shrine praises the bravery" is also set up on both sides to commemorate the yang family's loyalty and martyrdom, in order to encourage the border guards to bow down like the Yang family general and die.
Yang Linggong Temple
In addition, under the Yanmen Gate, there is also a Lushujian Village, which is famous for the Yang Family Ancestral Hall, and nearly half of the village is the descendants of the Yang Family Generals who survived in that year. And the Yang Family Ancestral Hall that they have guarded for generations is still very well preserved; in front of the ancestral hall hall, there is also a strangely shaped and exquisitely carved stone, it is said that this stone is also a stone shaped like a sika deer dug out by the Fourteenth Generation of the Yang Family under the leadership of the sika deer in a hunting process, which is very mysterious and coincidental.
The mansion where the Yang family lived the first generation of heroes Yang Jiye has also been preserved to this day, known as "Tianbo Yang Mansion". There are Yang Family Mansion, Yang Family Garden, Yang Family Military Field, these relics left behind, but also the Yang Family General's former glory.
Yang Jiajian in film and television dramas
Yang family marksmanship
In addition to some scenic spots and monuments that record the glorious history of the Yang family, the source and legacy of the Yang family's famous Yang family marksmanship have also been widely concerned, and the fog is thick.
It should be known that the Yang family in history will all be highly skilled in martial arts and have special skills, and it is precisely by relying on a unique secret skill of "ancestral inheritance" - the Yang family's marksmanship that they can settle down and serve the motherland. The Yang family gun method, because of its complete system, ingenious and practical, into its sharp, retreating speed, in the ancient era of cold weapons is very respected, known as the first gun in the martial arts industry.
Regarding the origin of the Yang family's marksmanship, most of the opinions are varied, and there are also many elements that have undergone artistic processing. According to folklore, the Yang family gun method originated from Yang Jiye's father Yang Hongxin, with his own learning of the Xia family North Bully Gun, learning from each other's strengths, combining the Western Chu Overlord Xiang Yu's "Overlord Gun" sharp killing and the Three Kingdoms period Zhang Fei's famous general "Zhang JiaZhang Eight Divine Guns" and other famous gun marksmanship, very strong, because it dances like a pear blossom swinging, so it is also called "Pear Blossom Gun".
Thirty-seventh generation
Fortunately, the world-famous Yang family marksmanship has not been lost, and Yang Wenzhen, who was born in luhujian village, the hometown of the Yang family, is one of the famous descendants of the Yang family. Yang Wenzhen inherited the mantle and edification of his father, from an early age to xiwu, began to learn horseback archery at the age of seven, a lifetime of martial arts training, good at learning mantis fist, Spring and Autumn knife, long fist, Yang family gun; as early as the 1930s of the last century, he won the first place in the Shanxi martial arts equipment, excellent martial arts, and special skills.
In addition to Yang Wenzhen, Yang Kaihua, the descendant of the Yang family general who fled with his father to Sichuan for refuge, as the thirty-seventh generation of the Yang family general, was gradually exposed to the public media. And the Yang family will be unique Skills of the Yang Family Marksmanship, naturally also in the Yang Family to the ancestors of the ancestors of the ancestors of the inheritance of the hands of Yang Kaihua, he will play a Yang Family Marksmanship is out of the magic, pure fire.
In addition, as a descendant of the Yang family general, Yang Kaihua also adhered to the awe-inspiring righteousness of the Yang family general's loyalty and courage, saw the righteousness and courage in his daily life, did things for the people, spoke for the people, and fought alone with the rogue bandits who oppressed the people, so his reputation rose and he was greatly praised. Even so, in today's era of peace, Yang Kaihua's martial arts are completely useless, and his life is very poor.
Yang Kaihua
Not only that, Yang Kaihua's Yang family gun method is also about to face the situation of being lost, due to the ancestral precept of the Yang family gun law "never passed on", the Yang family gun method can only be passed on to the descendants of the Yang family. But his son was not interested in the Yang family's marksmanship, believing that even if he learned the gun method well, he could not use it to support his family, and it was better to work to earn money.
Faced with such a dilemma as the Yang family's marksmanship, Yang Kaihua also felt very helpless. Thinking that the Yang family will make a meritorious contribution to the Yang family's marksmanship and make great achievements in battle, their descendants have ended up in the dilemma of being poor and poor, and supporting their families has become a problem, which makes people sigh and sigh.
Yang family gun
At the same time, the current situation and end of the Yang family's gun method also make us think not only about whether these traditional martial arts that embody the spiritual culture and history of Chinese martial arts should also be valued in the field of cultural protection. At the same time, it is also hoped that the descendants of the Yang family will be flexible and flexible, break the shackles of "no external transmission", and pass on the precious Yang family marksmanship.