There is such a passage in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms": The great events of the world will be divided for a long time; and the combination will be divided for a long time. The changes in the world are indeed only between these two, and the corresponding to the division is war and peace. Most of our generation lives in the Taiping World, so it may feel like war is far away. But for the ancients, perhaps war was the eternal theme. From the ghost fang of the Zhou Dynasty to the later Xiongnu, Xianbei, Xianbei, Qiang, Qiang, Turkic, Khitan and so on, wars were all lingering by the ancients.
The Han Dynasty enjoyed 422 years, but the era when there was really no war or turmoil at all may not add up to more than 50 years. In the midst of frequent wars, the general who can win every battle has naturally become the hero that people most admire. For example, Yue Fei of the Song Dynasty was affectionately called "Grandpa Yue" by the common people, because Yue Fei was their biggest "protective god" and a living "god", so people were very respectful of famous generals like Yue Fei.
There is no doubt that in ancient times, when there were more wars than peace, famous generals were worshipped by the vast majority of people. However, this has also led to the creation of many fictional "famous generals" in literary works, each of whom is more famous than the real famous generals in history, and even many people think that they are real famous generals. However, in fact, they do not exist, today we will talk about 4 such "famous generals".
The first is Mu Guiying. As a legendary heroine, most people think it is real. Mu Guiying's source is "The Biography of the Yang Family General", which tells the story of the Yang Ye family's loyalty to the country, and Mu Guiying is the daughter-in-law of the Yang family. As the daughter-in-law of the shogun, Mu Guiying's martial arts were not only inferior to her husband, but far superior to her husband. She once followed the Yang family to the southern expedition to the north, and once led the soldiers alone, invincible and invincible.
However, Mu Guiying did not have this person in history, but there was indeed a prototype of a woman leading soldiers in history. For example, Mu Guiying's grandmother, She Taijun, who was born in 934, is a real historical figure. It is recorded that she was "passed down from generation to generation in the township, who was good at riding, who was brave in her servant skills, and who used her soldiers to defeat the enemy such as the relatives of Lady Pu Wang", that is, her servants were more courageous than soldiers, and their abilities were comparable to Han Shizhong's wife Liang Hongyu. Liang Hongyu and Qi Jiguang's wife are also famous female generals.
The second fictional name will be Mu Guiying's husband Yang Zongbao. He is also a fictional character in "The Biography of the Yang Family General", but Yang Zongbao in "The Biography of the Yang Family General", whether in martial arts or strategy, seems to be far inferior to Mu Guiying, in fact, he is a supporting role in the work. Yang Zongbao's biggest role in that story is to introduce Mu Guiying, so that Mu Guiying can appear, and also set off Mu Guiying's heroic martial prowess.
Although Mu Guiying and Yang Zongbao are both fictional characters, the Yang Ye family is indeed a model of loyalty to the country. Yang Ye initially served as a general under Liu Zhiyuan's younger brother Liu Chong of the Northern Han Dynasty. After Liu Zhiyuan's Northern Han Dynasty was destroyed, Liu Chong, in collusion with the Liao state, divided the side against the Northern Zhou and Northern Song dynasties, and Yang Ye actively defected to the Northern Song Dynasty and became a mainstay on the frontier of the Later Northern Song Dynasty. In 986, he led an army to the Northern Expedition and died in battle at the mouth of Chen Jia Gu. Many of his descendants died on the battlefield.
The third fictional name will be Xue Dingshan, who is also a fictional character in the novel. In the novel, he is the son of the famous general Xue Rengui, in the novel, Xue Dingshan got several wives, one of whom is a disciple of Lishan's old mother, and the later historical novels are of course written into mythological novels. However, in history, Xue Rengui did have a son, named Xue Ne, who was born in 649, but his life trajectory was very different from Xue Dingshan.
The biggest difference is that Xue Dingshan has some taste of relying on his wife to be able to make meritorious achievements, while Xue Ne relied on his own ability to conquer the north and make great achievements. He was an official of The Qing Dynasty, and had resisted the Turks in the north and Tubo in the west, and was given the title of Grand General of Zuo Yulin (左羽林大將軍), in charge of the security of the Beijing Division. Therefore, this Xue Dingshan has some ugly taste of Xue Ne, which is also more common in novels, such as Li Jing, a general of the Tang Dynasty, who showed his face in "Sui and Tang Dynasty".
The fourth historically non-existent name will be Li Yuanba. After turning Li Jing into an obscure little person, "Sui and Tang Dynasty" turned Li Yuanba, a monster-like person, into a super famous general, and single-handedly repelled hundreds of thousands of troops with brute force, which does not know whether to say whether the author renders Li Yuanba's force or humiliates the reader's intelligence. However, it is strange that many people believe that Li Yuanba is real in history.
So we take a closer look at the description of some heroic figures in literary works, sometimes it is uniformly dwarfed and ugly, such as the Yang family will eventually rely on widows to fight, and Yang Zongbao, as the General of the Yang Family, is actually an embroidered pillow, Xue Rengui's son can only rely on his wife, Li Jing, a famous general of the anti-heaven level, has become a passerby in the "Sui and Tang Dynasty Yanyi", and the world of Tang Taizong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is actually beaten down by Li Yuanba's brute force, is this not a very terrible ugliness?
Why is this happening? Welcome to discuss.