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In 1894, the prefect of Hangzhou ordered the repair of the Yongjin Gate, and the workers in charge of completing the project rushed day and night, and in the process of repairing, one worker found that the soil under the wall next to the Yongjin Gate was particularly hard, and he suspected that someone had buried something in the ground.
Several workers took tools to dig down together, and found that there was a coffin buried in the ground, and the coffin was engraved with the four big characters "Wusong's coffin" in Song script, and everyone present was shocked, this coffin actually contained the loyal hero Wu Song.
Everyone immediately reported the matter to the local government, but at that time, the theory of ghosts and gods was prevalent, and the local officials did not dare to easily offend the big hero, so they ordered the coffin to be buried in place.
It was not until 1964 that the tomb of Wusong was opened again.
Wusong tomb was dug up in Hangzhou's West Lake
Wu Song in "Water Margin" is chivalrous, courageous, and courageous, he drank 18 bowls of white wine in a row, and after passing through Jingyanggang, he killed a hanging white-fronted tiger to eliminate harm for the people.
After knowing that his brother Wu Da Lang was killed by Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing, Wu Song disregarded his personal safety and took revenge for his brother Wu Da Lang with his adulterer and adulteress, and after being forced to go to Liangshan, he made many achievements for Liangshan in the war.
After Song Jiang led the entire brothers of Liangshan to accept the court's recruitment, Wusong accidentally lost his left arm in the war, and took the initiative to resign with Lu Zhishen to go to Hangzhou Liuhe Temple to convert to Buddha, which is a rare high life among the good men of Liangshan.
Although Wu Song's coffin was found in Hangzhou, coinciding with the place where he became a monk in the novel, archaeological experts conducted research and historical data on Wusong's tomb and found that the fate of Wusong in the tomb and the hero of "Water Margin" Wusong was very different.
According to the bones in the tomb, Wu Song's height is not as great as in the novel, but an ordinary man, but the bones are broken and twisted, and there are many traces of hard objects broken from the bones, and archaeologists look at the bones and can't imagine what kind of torture Wusong suffered back then.
This Wusong in the tomb is a native of Qinghe County, Hebei, born in 1055, and learned a good kung fu from an early age.
Although his family was poor, he was jealous like a hater, and he often pulled out his sword to help him when he encountered grievances on the road, and the surrounding neighbors and the people in the village spoke highly of him.
In order to subsidize the family, Wu Song often held a large knife to sell art near Yongjinmen, and the silver money he could get for each sale was very small, and Wu Song was not discouraged, and he was very satisfied with being able to eat a full meal every day.
When the elderly in the neighborhood need help, Wusong will also lend a hand regardless of return, and over time, everyone knows that this young man has great strength and a kind heart, even if he does not have too much money in his hand, he will give his own flapjacks and dried vegetables to Wusong.
Wu Song has always been very grateful for everyone's help, and in the process of selling art, Wu Song was noticed by the local prefect Gao Quan, who always wanted a strong martial artist to protect himself, and had to have a basic understanding of Wu Song before making a decision.
Gao Quan sent people around him to inquire about Wu Song's personality, and learned that the other party was honest and brave, so he took the initiative to ask Wu Song to serve by his side.
Wu Song felt the grace of Gao Quan's knowledge, and did his best to do things for him on weekdays, and the master and servant did a lot of things that were beneficial to the people.
In the process of getting along, Gao Quan thought that Wusong and himself were like-minded, and in order to promote Wusong, he was given a position as the head of the capital, and after being promoted, Wusong did more for Gao Quan with more dedication.
But who knows that the good times will not last long, the high power is an honest person, unwilling to join forces with some corrupt officials, in the process of becoming an official because of some small things offended Cai Jing's son, not only his official position could not be saved, but also the henchmen around him were persecuted.
At this time, Wusong did not know that his benefactor had encountered an accident, only knew that a new prefect was coming to the local government, and he was not enthusiastic about fame and fortune, and had been living on the principle that what came was safe.
Wu Song believed that if the new prefect could do things for the people and be sincere like the previous prefect, he would loyally assist.
The real Wusong in history
But who knew that the new prefect was the son of Cai Jing, the imperial master of the dynasty, who was already notorious before he came, and when he was in the capital, he did all kinds of evil things with some rich children, and after he took office, he often connived at his subordinates to do some bullying men and women, and robbing homes and houses.
Under the rule of the new prefect, the people complained, countless families were separated, and Wusong saw all this in his eyes and admonished the new prefect many times.
But who knew that the new prefect did not put Wusong in his eyes, and Wusong failed to advise him many times, but was removed from his post, and also figured out that Gao Quan was framed by him before losing his official post and going to prison.
Wu Song, who knew the Entu News, did not want to see the benefactor framed, let alone watch the people who had lived a peaceful and prosperous life return to the days of misery, and at night after disguising himself, he killed the new prefect with a knife to avenge the benefactor and the people.
Although Wu Song is strong in martial arts, he is still flesh and blood, he broke into the official mansion to kill people and could not retreat with his whole body, was caught by the officials, Wu Song killed the son of the Taishi, the officials present did not dare to dispose of Wu Song at will, and quickly sent someone to report the matter to Cai Jing.
Cai Jing was furious when he learned of this, as a imperial master, he had the authority in his hands, naturally he would not watch his son die at the hands of Wu Song, and ordered people to capture Wu Song, put him in prison, and serve him severely.
Wu Song had been working with Gao Quan before, and before meeting Gao Quan, his family was poor, and he had no support behind him, and the officials in the prison did not dare to offend the imperial master.
He was even more afraid that the imperial master would blame their son's death on their poor protection, so he used all the heavy punishments in prison on Wu Song's body, wanting to curry favor with Cai Jing by torturing martial arts.
Cai Jing has a total of nine sons, he neglects to discipline his children, and turns a blind eye to the evil things they do, in the Song Dynasty, where the king is weak and strong, Cai Jing can be described as covering the sky with one hand, no matter what major things his son commits, he can help cover up the past.
But who knew that someone was really not afraid of his power and status and killed his son, and Cai Jing added all his anger to Wu Song.
Wu Song was eventually tortured to death, and the people dared to be angry after knowing this, Cai Jing still did not feel relieved after killing Wu Song in order to avenge his son, and ordered his subordinates to throw Wu Song's body to a mass grave without leaving the whole body.
Ancient people paid great attention to the cycle of life and death, leaving a whole corpse after death, and taking care of the aftermath is a great deal, whether it is princes and nobles or peddlers and pawns are very concerned about the aftermath, Cai Jing's behavior is undoubtedly to crush Wu Song's bones and ashes, so that Wu Song will not be peaceful after death.
Most of the local people had been taken care of by Gao Quan and Wusong, in order to help the benefactor collect the bones, they secretly came to the mass grave at night to look for Wusong's body, fearing that they would be found by the local coffin, the people did not dare to play lanterns, let alone go up the mountain during the day.
However, Wu Song's bones have long been broken after being tortured by officials and bitten by wild beasts in the mass grave, making it extremely difficult to identify.
There were so many nameless corpses in the mass grave that the people could only rely on the moonlight to judge and pick up some of Wusong's bones and go back to secretly bury them, which can be regarded as allowing their benefactors to have a place to return after death.
The people engraved the words "Tomb of Wusong, the righteous warrior of Song" in front of Wusong's tombstone, and engraved Wusong's life experience on the back of the tombstone, hoping that future generations would know about the heroic deeds of this righteous man to eliminate harm to the people.
The tomb of Wusong was renovated
The local people are not afraid of Cai Jing's power and the heavy punishment of officials, and they do not want to chill the benefactors who once helped them, which is the kindness of human nature.
It can be seen that the "Water Margin" created by Shi Nai-an is just processed and fabricated according to the real history at that time, and the real Wusong did not live a dull life like in the novel, living safely to the age of 80, but was killed by an adulterer, and his bones were incomplete after death.
In 1924, Du Yuesheng accidentally discovered the tomb of Wusong in West Lake, and the tomb was overgrown with weeds and desolate, and it seemed that no one had repaired it for a long time.
Du Yuesheng has always admired heroes and heroes, and he couldn't bear to see the graves of a generation of heroes so desolate, so he joined forces with his friends to fund the relocation of Wusong's grave to Xiling Bridge and carried out major repairs.
In order to repair the Wusong tomb, Du Yuesheng and others paid a lot of money, and the Wusong tomb repaired for him was 2.8 meters high, and the tombstone alone used the best bluestone in Fujian, a full three meters high, which looked magnificent from afar.
The restored Wusong Tomb stood by the Xiling Bridge for 40 years, during which time hundreds of people came to pay their respects to this great hero. It was not until 1964 that the tomb of Wusong was excavated due to the times.
In 2004, in response to the citizens' request, the Hangzhou government also repaired and sorted out the tombs of heroes related to the local area in order to excavate the local culture and heroic deeds.
When repairing the Wusong Tomb, the staff of the Hangzhou government specially found the old photos of the Wusong Tomb, and found the designer to renovate the Wusong Tomb according to the scale and structure in the photos, striving to restore the picture of that year, and let more people understand the spirit of Wusong.
Unfortunately, there are no bones of Wusong in the rebuilt tomb of Wusong, and it is very difficult to recover Wusong's bones for a long time, so this tomb exists in the form of a crown tomb.
In fact, whether it is the chivalrous praise of Wusong among the people, or Shi Nai-an's writing of Wusong into "Water Margin" for secondary literary creation, the ultimate reason is because Wusong himself is a big hero, he died for justice and hundreds of people in his heart.
The life trajectory of Wusong in "Water Margin" and the real Wusong in history are not the same, and the ending is very different, but Shi Nai-an at least gave Wusong a good ending in his own works, which can be regarded as helping the people fulfill their expectations.
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