Di Renjie we are not strangers, in the early years, the divine detective Di Renjie was even more popular in the whole country, and the reputation of Di Renjie's divine judgment gradually rose, of course, the reason why Di Renjie had a high reputation in the people was mainly because he had been a local official for many years, and he once had the experience of supervising prison work, and when he served as a high-ranking official of the Zaizhi class in the center of the imperial court, it was already the last ten years of di Renjie's brilliant life.
And about Di Renjie's life in addition to the folk praise, according to these folklore, the Qing Dynasty also has a legendary novel "Di Gong Case", in addition to the Dutch sinologists also based on Chinese novels, created the "Tang Di Gong Case", in fact, through the historical materials we can see that most of the content of these novels are actually fictional, but because of its wonderful degree, so people are very impressed with Di Renjie.
Di Renjie himself was born in a small landlord family, his father and grandfather had been officials in the dynasty, and when It came to Di Renjie's generation, it gradually developed, because Di Renjie served as the prime minister in the imperial court, so the Taiyuan Di clan also regarded Di Renjie as the ancestor, but as far as Di Renjie himself was concerned, they also needed to find a famous ancestor for themselves, which was a common disease of the famous family in ancient China, didn't Zhu Yuanzhang still find Zhu Xi and plan to recognize him as an ancestor?
Looking around, these Descendants of the Di clan found the head of Confucius, because Confucius had a famous seventy-two disciples, among these disciples, one of them was called Di Hei, Di Hei Character 皙, so in the Confucian classics, it is called 皙子, or Zi Jiao, the late Spring and Autumn Wei people, of course, there are so many historical records about Di Hei, but to say that Di Renjie is his branch, there are actually many people who do not agree. According to the records of different ethnic branches, the earliest came from the mother of the Shang Dynasty, Qi (阏伯), in the era of Qi, when the society still belonged to the matrilineal clan, so most of the names of the tribe used the name of the grandmother as the tribal title, which derived the Di surname.
Of course, the origin of the Di surname is not only so, during the Spring and Autumn period of the Shang Zhou Dynasty, each has its own lineage history, but in the relevant research, Di Renjie's branch should not be native to the Central Plains, but a Qiang person, because in the New Book of Tang, it is recorded that Di Renjie's ancestor was a person named Di Zhan, so what is the origin of this person? It should be said that although Di Zhan has no reputation in history, he also served as a high-ranking official, and during the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Di Zhan's birth date was unreliable, but he was also reused during the Eastern Wei Dynasty, successively serving as the Jingzhou Assassin History and the Che Riding General, and died of illness in Jinyang, that is, Taiyuan during the Tang Dynasty.