The story of Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian is well known to the world, in the TV series, Wu Dalang is a businessman who sells cooking cakes, has a kind heart, has some cowardly personality, is less than five feet tall, has an ugly face, a ridiculous mind, and a long upper body and a short lower body. In the eyes of the world, Pan Jinlian is a typical example of charm, lasciviousness and viciousness, putting arsenic cream in the medicine and poisoning Wu Dalang.
Although Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian in "Water Margin" are fictional characters, there is really such a couple in history, but it is completely opposite to the plot in the TV series. Little is known about the real story of Wu Dalang.
Four kilometers east of the county seat of Qinghe County in Hebei Province, there is a village called Wujiana Village. There is a quaint courtyard outside the village, which is the Wuzhi Ancestral Hall and the Wuzhi Ancient Tomb.
Wu Dalang's original name was Wu Zhi, and he also had a younger brother named Wu Erlang, who lost his father and mother at a young age. Wu Dalang was intelligent and studious, knowledgeable, able to write and be good at martial arts, middle-aged jinshi, and served as the commander of Qipin County in Yanggu, Shandong.
Shi Zai, his wife Pan Jinlian was a well-known shuyuan who was literate and hyphenated, and despite the strong opposition of her family, she resolutely married The Poor Wu Zhi (at that time, Wu Zhi was not yet a middle soldier), the husband and wife were harmonious and loving, and had four sons, and was a typical virtuous wife and mother of Zhishu Dali.
After marriage, with the support of his wife, Wu Dalang raised a middle-aged soldier and worshiped Qipin as an official, and was a good official who could write and fight. When Wu Dalang was serving as a county commander in Yanggu County, Shandong Province, his brother's family when he was a teenager was ruined and fled to him, hoping that Wu Dalang would pull him along. Wu Dalang was usually charitable and charitable, greeting his brother twice, and had secretly built a house for him in his hometown. The brothers did not see Wu Dalang for a long time to fund, so they left angrily. While walking along the way, he sang and wrote, maliciously slandered and slandered Wu Dalang, and coupled with the aid and abetting of Ximen Qing, a vicious young man in the township who had been treated by Wu Dalang, his image as a clean official was destroyed.
Wang returned home to find that Wu Dalang had already helped him build a new house, only to know that he had misunderstood him, Wang mou was very remorseful, but the rumors of Wu Dalang's husband and wife had spread and were difficult to make up. Later, in order to meet the needs of the work, Shi Nai'an added folk rumors to it, thus causing a misunderstanding.
In the winter of 1992, the Wu clan of Wujia Na Village excavated the ancient tomb of Wu Dalang, and after the tomb was excavated, it was found that the coffin inside was well preserved, it was a hanging coffin burial, and after opening the coffin, there was the skeleton of an adult man inside, and the skeleton was visually measured at about one meter and eight meters, and the husband and wife were buried together. In order to commemorate their ancestors, the Wu clan repaired the tomb of Wu Dalang, and in 1996, raised funds to build a piercing hall, exhibition room, wall, gate, and Yongdao. A monument was built in front of the tomb.