"Three inches of ding, grain bark, walking the streets and alleys to sell burnt cakes." Wu Dalang is a classic character in the Water Margin novel.
This character is an obvious clown, and the eventual poisoning of the adulterer's adulterer's wife is the final outcome of his tragic life.
The reason why Shi Nai'an wrote this in "Water Margin" is mainly to highlight the image of Wu Song Zhengda.
But in fact, the real Wu Dalang is not like this, on the contrary, he is a person with a good appearance and a large body.
Hebei Province unearthed the tomb of "Wu Dalang", opening up a picture scroll that has been sealed for 600 years. Let us know that Wu Dalang is not like this, so what is the real Wu Dalang like, and what is Wu Dalang's scandalization for?
The true image of Wu Dalang
There is no character of Wu Dalang in history, and the prototype of Wu Dalang in the novel "Water Margin" is actually a county order of the Song Dynasty, called Wu Zhi. In 1946, the tomb of Wu Zhi was opened by experts, and the rumor that had been circulating for 600 years was finally revealed.
In Takeshi's tomb, experts found him tall.
The height of ancient people is generally not very high, due to the reason that nutrition can not keep up with the reason, the height of ancient people is mostly around 168-175, which is already high in ancient times.
However, according to expert measurements, Takeshi's height has reached 181, which is very different from the figure in the novel who is less than 150 tall.
In addition to his height, Wu Dalang's identity has also changed greatly.
In the "Water Margin" novel, Wu Dalang is a street vendor selling burnt cakes, and is poisoned by Ximen Qing because he married a beautiful wife, Pan Jinlian.
But in real history, Takeshi was originally a farmer.
His family was poor, and when he was young, he studied in the academy and herded cattle and sheep to support the family. But Takeshi is naturally intelligent and can learn anything at once.
And because of his family's poverty, Takeshi wants to change his family situation by relying on his own ability.
Therefore, he studied seriously, and finally passed the imperial examination, and passed the jinshi examination to become a county order.
Takeshi himself is very upright, because his family is poor, and he knows exactly how poor the poor people live. At the time of the county order, Wu Zhi vigorously developed the economy to help the farmers in the county get rich, and now Wu Zhi's temple is still worshipped.
Another figure who has been smeared by history is Pan Jinlian, the wife of Wu Zhi, but the historical Pan Jinlian is not a poisonous woman with a snake and scorpion heart. On the contrary, Pan Jinlian is a typical lady after the famous door, and kindness and beauty are synonymous with her.
It can be said that if placed in reality, Pan Jinlian would not be able to reconcile with Ximen Qing.
After all, Ximen Qing said that he was the boss of the county town, and the ugly point was that he was a small with a little money in his hand, who only dared to bully and bully the common people.
And Pan Jinlian is a famous person, not only knowledgeable and very virtuous.
The life of the real Pan Jinlian and Wu Zhi is also respectful to each other, and eventually the husband and wife Qin Ser and Ming, Bai Tou, are old.
Wu Zhi and Pan Jinlian really achieved the same life and death.
This is the historical Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian, and the image in the novel is simply very different.
So what is the reason why Wu Zhi's image has been so ugly that even Wu Zhi's wife has not been spared?
Rumors are fierce
The story also begins with the Wu Zhi Keju examination, when the Wu Zhi family was poor and it was very difficult to enter Beijing to catch the exam.
At this time, one of Wu Zhi's friends, named Huang Tang, had good family conditions and generously funded Wu Zhi.
Huang Tang not only took out money to fund Wu Zhi, But Wu Zhi's entanglement along the way, the books and banknotes needed were all funded by Huang Tang alone. It can be said that without Huangtang, there would be no county order Wuzhi, only farmer Wuzhi.
Wu Zhi was also very grateful for this, and after passing the entrance examination, he hurried back to his hometown to thank Huang Tang. Later, Wu Zhi took up his post, and he no longer knew about Huang Tang's affairs. In Wu Zhi's cognition, Huang Tang's family was very well-off, and he would not worry about money at all.
However, the heavens did not fulfill the wishes of Huang Tang's family to eventually fall in the middle of the road, and the cause of natural and man-made disasters caused Huang Tang's family to go bankrupt. Huang Tang was desperate at that time, there was no way, he had to come to Wu Zhi for help, hoping to seek an official and a half-job in this person.
However, Wu Zhi did not know the fate of Huang Tang's family because of his busy government affairs.
Because Huang Tang had been used to helping Wu Zhi before, he had always regarded Wu Zhi as a younger brother, so he suddenly asked Huang Tang to ask for help from Wu Zhi, and Huang Tang was still a little embarrassed.
Therefore, Huang Tang could only order and Wu Zhi poured bitter water, saying that his family had fallen in the middle of the road, and now his hands were too tight.
Because Wu Zhi was busy with official duties, and because he did not understand what Huang Tang meant, he thought that Huang Tang had come to visit him.
Wu Zhi did not expect that Huang Tang had come here to ask him for an official and a half-job, so he invited Huang Tang to a banquet for days and days, took him to eat delicious dishes throughout the county, that is, did not say anything about making him an official.
This made Huang Tang very sad.
Huang Tang felt that Wu Zhi had deliberately humiliated him, so he became angry and spread rumors about Wu Zhi everywhere.
It is said that Wu Zhi is short in stature and ugly in appearance, and he also spreads rumors that Wu Zhi's wife Pan Jinlian does not keep the way of women, not only does she have a relationship with others, but her style is not good.
Huang Tang blamed Wu Zhi because of his narrow-mindedness, and Wu Zhi also lost this friend because he did not understand Huang Tang's meaning. The rumors spread by Huang Tang were gradually spread widely. Eventually, he was heard about by Shi Nai'an.
Shi Nai'an heard about Huang Tang's experience and could be said to have no good feelings for Wu Zhi at all. Therefore, in "Water Margin", Shi Nai'an deliberately added the role of Wu Dalang, in addition to highlighting Wu Song, there is also the meaning of fighting for Huang Tang.
However, although Huang Tang had rumored about Wu Zhi, he had also helped Wu Zhi after all. After Wu Zhi heard that the Huang Tang family was bankrupt, he hurriedly found Huang Tang, not only apologized to him, but also made an errand for Huang Tang, and the two eventually reconciled.
However, the rumors about Wu Zhi, because they were too widespread, could not be rehabilitated in the end.
In this way, the image of Takeshi was vilified for 600 years, until the tomb was excavated and completely broken.
And Pan Jinlian has also been insulted by people for 600 years, and a couple with deep affection has finally ended up like this, which is really a rumor like a tiger.
epilogue
Rumors often stop at the wise, whether ancient or modern, countless people have been destroyed by rumors.
Destroyed in people's mouths, the so-called three people into tigers, but this is not the case.
Now with the development of science and technology, the distance between people is getting closer and closer. The emergence of the Internet has given many people the opportunity to pinpoint the drawbacks of the times, but the Internet is a double-edged sword.
It can promote the progress of the times, and it can also ruin a person's life.
The story of Wu Zhi and Huang Tang tells us not to make comments without seeing the whole picture. One sentence from you can lead to a person's discredit.