For ordinary people in ancient times, the way to obtain historical knowledge was obviously different from that of literati doctors. They did not have leisure to hold the Twenty-Four Histories and read them carefully, but mainly relied on folk art methods such as listening to commentaries and reading plays. Although the plot of the commentary opera is ups and downs, and the language is witty and humorous, it is a literary work after all, and there is a big gap with the real history. Most of the commentaries and operas are based on the framework of basic historical facts, and in order to pursue artistic effects, they have been freely exerted to a large extent, and the images of many historical figures have even been subversively changed.
The well-known "Yang Family General" uses vivid and realistic character images to portray and fascinating plots, and has a high degree of dissemination in the folk. In the book, the protagonist Yang Jiajian group, in order to defend the Great Song Dynasty, fought bloody battles with the Liao State, paying a heavy price, and almost all the father and son generations sacrificed their lives for the country. However, Yang Menhu will be loyal to the country, but he is still framed and ostracized by the traitors, making the hero shed blood and tears. The heroic loyalty and misfortune of the Yang family general have attracted people's infinite admiration and sympathy for hundreds of years.
In the commentary, the fourth generation of Yang Jiajun is Yang Wenguang, the grandson of Yang Liulang and the son of Yang Zongbao. This is different from the real history, in history, Yang Zongbao did not have this person, and Yang Wenguang was the son of Yang Liulang. In the commentary, after the Yang family suffered a devastating blow to the golden beach, She Taijun and Yang Men would retire to the countryside.
Later, when the Liao State revived the army, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty gathered the world's able men and women in the Wuke Field and held a contest, and the winner would be able to obtain the marshal seal of the commander and seize the military power of the Great Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty had a minister named Wang Qiang, who was sent by the Liao State to the Undercover of the Song Dynasty. Wang Qiang wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to use his power and influence to do everything possible to support his son Wang Lun to the throne, steal the military power of the Great Song from then on, and realize his ambition to subvert the Song Dynasty.
As a result, Yang Wenguang and his sister Yang Jinhua happened to come to the capital to do business, and also went to the Wuke Field to see the liveliness. They saw that Wang Lun's martial arts were mediocre but flaunting their martial prowess, and for a while they could not suppress the spirit of youth and competitiveness, and they competed in the next game. Yang Wenguang was highly skilled in martial arts, and Wang Lun was not his opponent at all, but Wang Lun was everywhere desperate and wanted to kill Yang Wenguang. Yang Wenguang confiscated his hand for a moment, "Without killing three and merging two formations, the sword split Wang Lun's life returned to yin." Wang Lun thus became an image of a traitor and clown, widely spread in the commentary and opera, and is still despised.
In fact, in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was really a Wang Lun, who was also a minister of the Song Dynasty. However, Wang Lun in real history is an uncompromising iron-blooded loyalist. Wang Lun (王倫), courtesy name Zhengdao, was a native of Xinxian County, after Wang Dan, the chancellor of the Northern Song Dynasty. In the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Dan's family fell in the middle of the road and became a rogue in the city. But Wang Lun is proud and righteous, likes to make friends with jianghu Haojie, and is quite bold. His life is legendary.
The "History of Song" records that during the Jing Kang Rebellion, the Jin soldiers surrounded Bieliang, the Song Dynasty monarchs were cowardly and fearful of war, and the people were indignant, almost provoking a civil uprising, and Song Qinzong panicked, not knowing how to settle out. Wang Lun stepped forward and claimed that he had a way to quell the people's rebellion. Emperor Qinzong of Song made him a soldier on the spot, and Wang Lun "threatened a small number of evil people, passed on the value of fu ding, and all the people were resting", and three times five divided by two to calm the situation.
After the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Lun was once again appointed in danger and served as an envoy to the Jin Dynasty many times. At that time, the Jin Dynasty was strong and the Song Dynasty was weak, and the envoys of the Song Dynasty went to the Jin State to negotiate, and they were oppressed and despised, which was not only difficult to achieve results, but often had to worry about their lives. Wang Lun, with his extraordinary courage and talent, risked his life to repeatedly send envoys to the Jin Dynasty, and made significant progress, causing the Jin Kingdom to return the body of Emperor Huizong of Song and Empress Wei, the biological mother of Emperor Gaozong of Song, and for a time let the State of Jin return all of Henan and Shaanxi to the Southern Song Dynasty. Although the Southern Song Dynasty was unable to maintain a good situation because of its weak military strength, Wang Lun's historical achievements could not be erased.
In the ten years of Shaoxing, the relationship between Song and Jin deteriorated again, and the war resumed. Wang Lun was once again involved in danger and had difficulty sending an envoy to Jin Guo, and as a result, he was detained by Jin Guo. The Jin people tried to force Wang Lun to surrender, and granted him a high-ranking official who was a transfer envoy to the three roads of Pingluan, but Wang Lun refused to resign, and "the crown took the southward direction, and then wept again", and said passionately: "The former minister Wen Zhenggong supplemented the two dynasties with a straight road, and the world knows." The subject will now leave his life behind, wanting to defile his false office, and the subject dares to love and die to humiliate his life! He was then killed by Jin Guo, and was a loyal and commendable iron-blooded loyalist. Who knows the yin and yang mistakes, but the big hero has become a traitor in the commentary, which is lamentable.
Reference: History of the Song Dynasty