The story of the Yang family has been passed down through the ages, and there is no shortage of them in the past and the present, whether it is the drama of storytelling or contemporary literature and art, or even film and television works.
As a classic novel of ancient Chinese history, many of the characters in the Yang family have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and have become my cultural symbols.
However, many people do not know the origin of the Novel by the Yang Family, and their authors do not know.
Today we will talk about the author of Yang Jiajiang's novel, Xiong Damu and his related works.
Xiong Damu was a figure from jiajing wanli in the Ming dynasty, he was a Fujian native, and his family was once a family of officials and eunuchs, but by his generation he had become a commoner.
Xiong Damu, who worked as an editor and publisher, was one of the earliest practitioners of the ancient Chinese publishing industry, and he was also a successful fiction writer.
His most famous works are the "Southern and Northern Song Zhi Biography" and the "Quan Han Zhi Biography", among which the so-called "Northern Song Zhi Biography" is the "Yang Family General" passed down by later generations.
The accident of "Yang Family General" is known to everyone, telling the story of the Yang Linggong family's resistance to the Liao in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty. The Yang family's "Seven Langs and Eight Tigers" are full of loyal martyrs, and in the later period, there is also the story of the general of the She Taijun, which can be described as a household name and a popular population.
Among them, the images of classic characters such as "Yang Linggong", "She Taijun", "Mu Guiying", "Yang Liulang", "Pan Renmei" and "Eight Sages King" have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
This story has been compiled into opera and opera literature and even influential works by later generations, and has won the love of the vast number of readers and audiences, and many people in history are fans of Yang Jiajiang.
Although the historical Yang family general is not as legendary as in the novel, he is indeed a famous general of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Yang Linggong was Yang Ye, who was originally a general of the Northern Han Dynasty and surrendered to the Northern Song Dynasty, known as "Yang Invincible", fought against the Khitan and was defeated and captured, and died of hunger strike (one said to be beheaded). Yang Ye's descendant Yang Yanzhao was also a famous general of the Northern Song Dynasty, who had long guarded the north and threatened the Khitans, and it is said that he was also one of the generals of the elite "Jing Sai Army" of the Song Army.
However, there is no Yangmen female general in history, of course, it is impossible to have the plot of Mu Guiying as the commander, and the novelist's arrangement is only to increase the drama and tension of the story.
The historical prototype of Pan Renmei, the great traitor minister of the Yang family, is Pan Mei, and Pan Mei is a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, which is not a great traitor and a great evil.
Xiong Damu lived in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, when the Rapid Economic Development of the Ming Dynasty, the high degree of cultural freedom, coupled with the mature popularization of printing, gave birth to the prosperity of novel publishing.
Xiong Damu adapted to the needs of this era, he was a famous publisher at that time, but also an excellent writer, he and his peers promoted the development of Ming Dynasty novels, and played a role in promoting Chinese literature.
If Kuma Daiki is born now, he can be the boss of a large publishing group plus a platinum-level writer.