The day of deep external troubles is also the time when heroes emerge. Yang Jiajian is a typical example. Of course, this typical is related to dramatic novels, in which the Yang family is a heroic family that has been fighting for generations, and even women have gone into battle to kill the enemy. Its story can be made into a long TV series, and it continues episode by episode.
In these works, the Yang family will be loyal and loyal, but in the end they will be killed by the adulterers, and all the men will be killed in battle. It can be said that the story of the Yang family general is a household name from ancient times to the present. So, is there really a Yang family general in history? Why has it been recited for thousands of years?
The Yang family has passed on the story for nearly a thousand years, which is timeless and unforgettable.
The three most famous generations of Yang Ye, Yang Yanzhao, and Yang Wenguang have been stationed in northern Xinjiang for a long time and performed meritorious deeds, but they were suppressed and suspected in the context of the Suppression of Wu Chongwen in the Song Dynasty. Because Yang Ye was a subordinate of the Northern Han Dynasty, the imperial court, in order to show favor and win over other separatist forces, granted him a higher official position, but Yang Yanzhao and Yang Wenguang's rank was not high, and the historical records were quite brief.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, folk artists compiled the yang family's story into a script, which became more and more popular in the folk. Because the Northern Song Dynasty was eventually destroyed by foreign enemies, the southern Song dynasty remnants had a very strong mood of worshipping heroes.
In the face of the humiliated and peace-seeking Government of the Southern Song Dynasty, they admired and remembered the generals who fought bloodily to protect the country. In the process of circulating the story, the Yang family has been boldly imagined and artistically processed by folk artists, and many magical stories and characters have been continuously integrated.
To this day, Peking Opera and other local dramas often stage plays such as "Shilang Visits Mother" and "Mu Guiying Hangs Up". These novels and operas have become very different from historical facts and have become heroic legends. Lu Xun once said that the Yang family's novels are "clumsy in style, but prevalent in the lanes", on the one hand, their artistic level is not highly evaluated, on the other hand, their social impact is not low. In the Yang family, this heroic group is pinned on the Chinese nation's indomitable spirit of resistance to defending the country and resisting foreign insults, and the feeling of sacrificing and dedicating the country. The spirit of the five generations of the Yang family's fathers and sons, husbands and wives, and the spirit of going to the soup and the fire, the former servants and successors have touched and inspired generations of Chinese. Although the Yang family's story is relatively rough in art, its influence on future generations is very far-reaching, far beyond the work itself.
In the novels and operas that are now circulating, the Yang family not only produces heroes from generation to generation, but also does not let their eyebrows be shaved. She Taijun, Mu Guiying, the Eighth Sister, the Ninth Sister, and even Yang Paifeng, the fire burner in the Yang Mansion, were all highly skilled in martial arts. Stories such as Mu Guiying's hanging of the marshal and the Twelve Widows' Western Expedition are popular and widely circulated. However, judging from the existing historical records, these are the artistic processing and creation of posterity.
When the great rivers and mountains of the Central Plains were trampled by iron hooves, people needed heroes, and the Yang family would be the heroes in people's minds. It is no longer clear whether people are writing heroes with history or borrowing heroes to send history.