Writers write by imagination, and archaeologists speak on evidence. But reflecting the same thing, it should have been the latter who took the lead, but in the case of Wu Dalang, archaeologists could not fight Shi Nai'an! No matter how hard your evidence is, people still like Lao Shi!
In the novel "Water Margin", Wu Dalang is "less than five feet tall and ugly", a person who does not even have a name, "Qinghe County people saw that he was born short, and gave him a nickname, called three inches of Dinggu bark" In addition to being good at cooking cakes, there is no other skill. But he married a beautiful woman, Pan Jinlian. That Pan Jinlian"'s eyebrows are like early spring willow leaves, often containing rain and hatred clouds; her face is like a March peach blossom, hiding the meaning of the moon." Slender waist, restrained swallow lazy warbler lazy; sandalwood mouth light, seducing bees crazy butterfly chaos. Jade looks enchanting flowers explain, fangrong and jade are fragrant. Pan Jinlian, who is so fragrant and fragrant, is supposed to be a cute character, but she was shaped into a slut by Shi Nai'an with the words "style moon meaning" and "bee crazy butterfly chaos", so Pan Jinlian was subjectively judged by Shi Nai'an to be a woman with watery Yanghua at the beginning.
What is the real thing? In the 1990s, an ancient tomb was discovered in Hebei, and after the study of archaeologists, it was determined that the owner of this ancient tomb was named Wu Zhi, which is what we often call "Wu Dalang".
According to the tombstone, although Wu Dalang grew up poor, he was very smart and knew how to work hard. Finally, after some hard study, he was admitted to the Jinshi, and became the local Qipin County Order. Wu Dalang's wife was named "Pan Shi", and her father was also an official, and the family conditions were very good. After Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian got married, they lived a very happy life, with their wives thrifty and thrifty families and their husbands studying hard. In the end, Wu Dalang was admitted to the imperial examination, and Pan Shi also became the county ling's wife, which can be described as a proud life.
According to the measurement of the corpse, the height of The Elder Lang is about 1.8 meters, not a "dwarf", but a real "burly man".
So, since Wu Dalang and Pan Shi are such a good couple, why were they written by Shi Nai'an in "Water Margin"? And it is so unsightly and smelly for thousands of years. His ugly image is related to a man named Huang Tang. Huang Tang and Wu Dalang are fellow villagers, and when Wu Dalang's family was poor when he was a child, Huang Tang would often help him. Later, Wu Dalang became the county magistrate of Qinghe County, and Huang Tang's home was burned to the ground because of a fire. Therefore, the homeless Huang Tang went to wu Dalang. Da Lang let him stay at home, and Pan Shi welcomed him very warmly. Seeing that Wu Dalang was so powerful as the county order, Huang Tang wanted to "go through the back door" and ask Wu Dalang to find a position for him, but Dalang did not agree. At this time, Huang Tang thought that he was ungrateful, and in a fit of anger, he left Wu Dalang's mansion. On the way back to Qinghe County, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, so he wrote a lot of bad words about Wu Dalang on the side of the road, on the trees, and on the wall. After writing these bad words, he felt still angry, so he orchestrated the gossip story of Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian to slander Wu Dalang. But as soon as Huang Tang got home, he was dumbfounded. It turned out that after Wu Dalang learned of Huang Tang's encounter, he sent someone to send silver money, and also helped Huang Tang build a house. Originally, Wu Dalang was ready to tell Huang Tang after doing all this well. But at this time, Huang Tang regretted that it was already too late. The gossip story of Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing, which he orchestrated, has been spread in the folk. Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian's reputation was thus destroyed by Huang Tang. And Shi Nai'an, the author of the Water Margin, is like a modern entertainment journalist. Before I could figure out the facts, I rendered and processed what I heard. And Huang Tang, who spread rumors, also committed suicide because he blamed himself too much.