"Water Margin" as China's four masterpieces, in the folk spread is very wide, Wu Dalang as a figure in the Water Margin, is the world's relish, has become the world's people after dinner talk, but you know, in history there is no prototype of the character of Wu Dalang, but in the author Shi Nai'an died in the decades after the emergence of a county order, rumors that he is the legendary Wu Dalang, this person is the County Commander Wu Zhi in the Ming Dynasty.
Wu Zhi was born in the early years of the Ming Dynasty in Wujiana Village, Qinghe County, Hebei Province, and it is rumored that Wu Zhi is Wu Song's older brother, which is nonsense. According to the "General History of Zhejiang", Wu Song was born in 1055 AD, did not have an older brother, he was just a vagrant who often sold jugglers around the Yongjin Gate in Hangzhou, and was loved by the prefect Gao Quan at that time, and recruited back to his post, and has always been able to improve his jurisdiction, but after Gao Quan was framed and dismissed, Wu Song's position was also dismissed.
At that time, the newly appointed prefect of Hangzhou was Cai Jing's son Cai Jing, but this man was arrogant, and the locals were very afraid of him, but Wu Song and Wu Song in the "Water Margin" were the same, and immediately killed Cai Feng for the people, but it also caused disaster, and in 1126, Wu Song finally died in prison. In order to commemorate the hero Wu Song, the local people raised funds to build a tomb monument for Wu Song, and now you can see Wu Song's grave on the edge of the West Lake.
And Wu Zhi was a person during the Ming Dynasty, separated by hundreds of years, and it is impossible to be Wu Song's brother, or even the prototype of Wu Dalang, so how did the folk tie Wu Zhi and the imaginary Wu Dalang together? Or to come to Wu Zhi to analyze, Wu Zhi's family is very shabby, basically can be described by the four walls of the family disciples, but fortunately, Wu Zhi is very smart, took the meritorious name, and became the county order of Yanggu County, Shandong.
For the official clean and honest, recognized and favored by the local people, married Pan Jinlian as a wife, Pan Jinlian is not not like the watery Yanghua woman described by people, but she is an extremely virtuous woman, born in everyone's boudoir, a veritable talented woman, in the local area, Pan Jinlian's reputation is basically no one does not know that she is virtuous and industrious, and Pan Jinlian in the "Water Margin" text In addition to the name portrait, everywhere else is the separation of heaven and earth, note that this time should be the subtle origin of Wu Zhi and the fictional Wu Dalang.
Wu Zhi actually had a friend named Huang Tang in the early years, who had funded Shi Nai'an a lot in his career or life, and it was also because of the help of noble people that Wu Zhi was able to seek meritorious fame, and in Wu Zhi's eyes, Huang Tang's status was undoubtedly very important. After becoming a high-ranking official, Huang Tang's home was on fire, and in desperation, he had to go to his former friend Wu Zhi, hoping to promote himself and eat with mixed food.
For the arrival of Huang Tang, Wu Zhi was very happy, good wine and good meat to entertain this benefactor who had helped him, Huang Tang was grateful for this, so for three consecutive months, Wu Zhi was like this, but Huang Tang thought that this was Wu Zhi's delaying tactics at this time, thinking that Wu Zhi did not have the intention of promoting himself, and Huang Tang, who was more and more confused, finally resented. As a result, everywhere in the local area, they wantonly fabricated the unwarranted gossip of Wu Zhi and his wife, which were all made up by Huang Tang himself, but basically the water that Huang Tang interpreted did not leak, and there was nothing wrong with it.
In this way, the news spread, and the rumors about The Takeshi and his wife became more and more numerous, more and more widespread, and they were circulating until now, so the descendants of Shi Nai'an had to come forward to clarify the events of that year, and the descendants of Takeshi also came forward to clarify their ancestors, but obviously, once this kind of thing spread, basically the reason for the slow circulation of information at that time could not be reversed, which led to the end of Wu Dalang and Takeshi.
But in fact, in the excavation of Wu Zhi's grave, after analysis, a conclusive conclusion was drawn, Wu Zhi was seven feet long, which should be at least one meter and eight meters above now, Wu Zhi's tomb had actually been excavated, and Wu Zhi's descendants also came forward to clarify in 1966, not only that, but also repaired the Wu Zhi Ancestral Hall, and engraved an epitaph on the tombstone, just to justify the ancestors.
It can be seen from this that Shi Nai'an at that time could not have imagined that there was such a coincidence in the book he wrote, and his implementation of Wu Dalang written by Nai'an was also based on the "Great Song Xuan and Testament" of the Yuan Dynasty period and the Yuan Dynasty Gong Kai's "Thirty-Six Praises of the Song River", so it is said that Wu Zhi and Wu Dalang are actually separated by several galaxies in the middle, and they belong to the relationship that cannot be beaten by eight rods.