In ancient Chinese history, there were many case-breaking masters, as many as dozens of famous and surnamed, and later in various dramas, novels, film and television works, the most described are probably Di Renjie, Bao Zheng, and Song Ci. Today's historical material bacteria for everyone to take stock of the three detectives with the highest frequency in film and television works, who has the strongest ability to solve cases? Let's talk about them one by one in chronological order.
First of all, let's talk about Di Renjie, Di Renjie, zi Huaiying, a politician during the Wuzhou period of the Tang Dynasty. The prestige of Di Renjie's judgment has been passed down in the folk to this day, and the impact is still relatively large, but it is a bit regrettable that the case broken by Di Renjie is not specifically recorded in the main history. The history books only record that during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, that is, from 676 to 679 AD, Di Renjie served as the dali temple clerk, and he was fair and honest, and handled many backlogged and difficult cases. For a while, his reputation was shocked, and he became a celebrity who was highly respected in the Court of Wuzhou to eradicate adultery and eliminate evil, and to judge cases like gods.
Di Renjie
However, it should be noted that Di Renjie's main achievement is in the judgment, not in solving the case. That is to say, Di Renjie is a judicial judge, similar to today's justices, not the "Huai Ying Lang Zhong" in the TV series who often dresses up, micro-serves private visits, and does everything personally.
What made Di Renjie famous was the Dutch sinologist Gao Luopei's "The Case of The Tang Di Gong", which is also called "The Legend of the Tang Di Renjie Case", which can still be bought in bookstores today. As a Dutchman, he knows China better than many Chinese, this book is a novel he created, not a biography, some of the plots are fictional, many of the crime-solving methods in this book borrow from many cases that occurred in the Tang Dynasty, some of which were directly transplanted under Di Renjie's name, so in this book, Di Renjie became a detective.
In real history, Di Renjie is a judge who tries cases and makes judicial judgments, and solving cases is handed over to the people at the bottom to do, he is only a leader, at most a technical guide, and it is definitely not as magical as "Detective Di Renjie" TV.
Teenager Bao Qingtian
Next, let's talk about Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng is a jinshi during the Northern Song Dynasty Renzong years, is now a native of Hefei, Anhui, once had a popular drama in the streets and alleys, I believe many readers and friends have seen, that is, the TV series "Young Bao Qingtian". In this film and television drama, Bao Zheng simply opened a plug-in, and the methods and angles of thinking about the case were simply divine, as if there was no case that he could not break. However, most of the plots of Bao Zheng's judgment case on TV are legends, and as for many cases such as the tanuki cat changing the prince and the murder of the goryeo prince, many of them are not criminal cases, but government affairs incidents, so Bao Zheng's strength is that he is good at handling state affairs disputes and doing the work of rectifying chaos.
And the well-known stories of Bao Zheng's judgment of the case like a god are mostly fictionalized in the Ming Dynasty public case novel "Bao Gong Case", of course, it is undeniable that the historical Bao Zheng is indeed a just and upright official who asks for the people's lives.
Song Ci
Finally, let's talk about Song Ci, Song Ci, the word Huifu, a famous forensic scientist in the Southern Song Dynasty, from the perspective of historical facts, the only one who can be called a divine detective is probably Song Ci. Among the three people, Di Renjie, Bao Zheng and Song Ci, Song Ci's ability to judge cases is the strongest, Song Ci's achievements in forensic science are very high, he attaches great importance to collecting evidence, by diagnosing the cause of death of the deceased, reproducing the crime scene. He used the cases he experienced to write a forensic science monograph, "The Record of Washed Injustices".
TVB drama "Wash of Wrongs"
This is also the first professional criminal investigation work in the mainland, and has now been included in the compulsory textbook of the Police Criminal Investigation College. Therefore, from the perspective of comprehensive ability to handle cases, Song Ci's ability to solve cases is the strongest, and he can throw Di Renjie and Bao Zheng out of a few streets.
If we define identity in modern terms, it is: Di Renjie is a politician, Bao Zheng is a judge, and Song Ci is a prosecutor and forensic doctor and administrator. Di Renjie and Bao Zheng were both backed by imperial power, and most of them involved major cases of political struggle. And Song Ci is supported by technology, most of them are ordinary criminal cases, and the person with the strongest ability to solve cases is Song Ci.