In 1850, the largest peasant uprising of the Qing Dynasty since its founding broke out in Jintian Village, Guangxi. In order to extinguish this uprising, the Qing government did everything in its power, even selling national sovereignty to obtain help from foreigners. In addition, it has also launched an ideological war, fabricating all kinds of rumors to deceive the ordinary people who are backward in thinking, so that they think that "long hair" is a group of extremely vicious demons. For the low-level intellectuals, they did their best to intimidate and deter, such as the large-scale release of the novel "Dangkouzhi" during the Taiping Rebellion.
Taiping Rebellion
The novel "Dang Kou Zhi" was written before the Taiping Rebellion, and the author Yu Wanchun served in the army with his father in his early years to quell the civil unrest. This man believes that thieves are a disaster for the world, so he deeply hates the peasant uprising and thieves, but does not reflect on what turned the good people into mobs. Yu Wanchun, who deeply resented the characters in "Water Margin", cut off the waist of "Water Margin" and wrote it from the seventy-first time, fabricating a large story of how Song Jiang and others were captured by Zhang Shuye to correct the Fa, and named his book "Dang Kou Zhi".
Novels by Kouzhi
In this novel that slanders the peasant uprising, Song Jiang and others do not have a good ending, because "Water Margin" has many characters, and we only look at the ending of the first thirty-six of the one hundred and eight generals:
Song Jiang was executed by Ling Chi, Lu Junyi was executed by Ling Chi, Wu Yong was executed by Ling Chi, Gongsun Sheng was executed by Ling Chi, Guan Sheng was wounded and died by the official army, Lin Chong was killed by anger, Qin Ming was killed by Song General, Hu Yanzhuo was killed by javelin, Hua Rong was killed by an arrow, Chai Jin was executed by Ling Chi, Li Ying was executed by Song General, Zhu Tong was executed by Ling Chi, Lu Zhishen went mad and died, Wu Song was exhausted by Song General Wheel War, Dong Ping was stabbed to death with two guns, Zhang Qing was killed by a foreign gun, Yang Zhi was stabbed to death in the back, Xu Ning was stabbed to death by a gun, Suo Chao was shot by a random arrow, Emperor Daizong was executed by Ling Chi, Liu Tang was executed by Ling Chi, Li Kui was executed by Ling Chi, Shi Jin was executed by Ling Chi, Mu Hong was executed by Ling Chi, Lei Heng was executed by Ling Chi, Li Jun was executed by Ling Chi, Ruan Xiao Er was executed by Ling Chi, Zhang Heng was executed by Ling Chi, Ruan Xiao Wu was executed by Ling Chi, Zhang Shun was executed by Ling Chi, Ruan XiaoQi was executed by Ling Chi, Yang Xiong was shot by random arrows, Shi Xiu was killed by Ling Chi, Xie Zhen was hacked to death, Xie Bao was shot by random arrows, and Yan Qing was killed by a whip.
Dangkoshi movies
See, the good men of Liangshan not only had to die, but they also had to die badly, and they died quite miserable. For the corrupt officials in the original work, they have done their best to whitewash and beautify them. Therefore, the novel "Lang Kouzhi" was regarded by the feudal rulers at that time as a treasure to maintain the "people's hearts of the world", and was used for reactionary propaganda, in an attempt to intimidate the rebellious people with Ling Chi torture and death. Therefore, after the outbreak of the Taiping Rebellion, Qing government officials in Nanjing vigorously engraved the "Dangkou Zhi". When the area around Nanjing became the ruling center of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the "Dangkouzhi" was immediately destroyed, and after the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Tongzhi decade, the "Dangkouzhi" was released in large quantities.
Yu Wanchun
Yu Wanchun's slander of the peasant uprising to maintain the decadent rule of the Manchu Qing dynasty is really despicable.