Flying snow pats the white deer plain, laughs at books and leans against the garden. These fourteen masterpieces have won countless reputations for Mr. Jin, and readers from generation to generation are fascinated by them. The stars are proud to appear in these works.
But readers may not know that Jin's works are different from most online novels now, and almost all of them have real historical backgrounds and historical figures.
For example, the legend of the condor heroes in the trilogy of condor shooting is set in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and Wan Yan Honglie, Genghis Khan and Torre all have historical prototypes. "The Condor Heroes" is set in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty and is closely linked with the former. Even the seemingly completely fictional "Eternal Dragon Slayer" was actually written in the real historical background at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. In this book, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, really started to join Zoroastrianism in history, so after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country name was Daming.
So today I will talk about another book by Mr. Jin Yong, which is also my favorite classical martial arts novel Duke of Lushan. Let's see how many characters in this book are real in history.
The Duke of Lushan is Mr. Jin Yong's masterpiece, which was completed in the period of 1969-1972. The story background of the book began in the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, mostly in the Kangxi period. Although the protagonist Wei Xiaobao is pure fiction, the second protagonist Kangxi is real. Not only that, some historical plots in the book are also true, only partially adapted and presented in the form of novels.
Kangxi, whose original name was Aisingiorro Michelle Ye, was the second emperor after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and his temple name was Saint Zu. He ascended the throne at the age of seven and ruled for 60 years. He was the longest reigning emperor in China.
When Michelle Ye was a teenager, he was assisted by sourdrang dowager, Sony, the minister of Gu Ming (the father of Suodetu in the novel), Suksaha, Zieba Bilong and Ao Bai.
At the age of 14, he and his cronies joined forces to arrest Ao Bai, a powerful minister, and wiped out his henchmen. After 60 years in power, he conquered Taiwan Province Province and made an expedition to Gerdan, creating the last flourishing age of China feudal era-Kanggan flourishing age.
In the novel, Wei Xiaobao was Kangxi's playmate when he was young. He once won the Ao Bai with Kangxi, and made great contributions to it several times since then, paying homage to the first-class Duke Ding Lu. Although this task is fictional, it is not completely without historical prototype, because Kangxi did have a childhood playmate in real history, which played an important role in his life, and that person was Cao Yin.
Cao Yin's father Cao Xi was the most effective minister in Shunzhi and Kangxi dynasties, and his mother was Kangxi's wet nurse. They grew up together, like brothers. At the age of sixteen, Cao Yin became the undertaker of Kangxi. Kangxi was promoted to Suzhou Weaving in 29 years and transferred to Jiangning Weaving three years later, almost all of which were well-known jobs in the Qing Dynasty. Kangxi went to Jiangnan six times and lived in Cao Yin's home four times, which was a great favor of the little emperor. Later, in his later years, Kangxi strongly recommended the May 4th Movement to the East Palace, and took a wrong stand, which annoyed Yongzheng, who was still the May 4th Movement at that time, and laid the groundwork for the subsequent disasters. Immediately after Yongzheng ascended the throne, he began to rectify the Cao family, and the once prosperous Cao Shi clan fell apart.
It is worth mentioning that Cao Xueqin, the author of A Dream of Red Mansions, is the grandson of Cao Yin, and A Dream of Red Mansions was rewritten according to this historical event. In my opinion, Wei Xiaobao's character prototype should also be adapted from Cao Yin's deeds.
Besides, other characters in the novel, Wu Sangui and Ao Bai, are naturally household names.
One is the general of Shanhaiguan in the Ming Dynasty. In the name of capturing his wife Chen Yuanyuan alive, he led the Qing army to invade Daming Mountain, leaving a good name of "rushing to the crown and being angry as a beauty". Later, the anti-Qing dynasty failed and he was killed in Yunnan.
The other is Kangxi's assistant minister, who was in office for a period of time in his early years. After being secretly arrested by Kangxi for rejecting dissidents and monopolizing power, he died in prison, and all his followers were paid by Kangxi.
Wei Xiaobao's master in the book, Chen Jinnan, the general helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society, and Feng Xifan, the master of Zheng Keshuang, are even more famous figures in the history books.
In the novel, Chen Jinnan is regarded as the chief helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society and the master of Wei Xiaobao. In history, it is unknown whether the real Chen Jinnan's martial arts is really that high, but it was he who founded the Heaven and Earth Society. Under the cover of faith, the Heaven and Earth Society secretly organized anti-Qing forces, which gradually became the most headache for the Qing court. The organization continued with the Qing Dynasty for nearly 300 years, until it spread to today's Hong Men, which was the continuation of the former Heaven and Earth Society.
Feng Xifan was the right-hand man of Zheng Jing, king of Yanping County, Taiwan Province Province, and a politician of Ming Dynasty in Taiwan Province Province. He, Zheng Yonghua and Liu Guoxuan are also known as "Three Masters of Taiwan Province". Among them, Chen Yonghua is the real name of Chen Jinnan, and Feng Xifan and Chen Yonghua are indeed a pair of political opponents in history.
In addition to the above-mentioned people, there is also a great force in the novel that deserves a special book, that is, Muwangfu in Yunnan.
Mu Wangfu was built by Mu Ying, the founding general of Ming Dynasty, and is the residence of Mu Ying and his descendants.
Mu Ying was the adopted son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. At the age of twelve, he followed Zhu Yuanzhang's Western Expedition and made great achievements. After the founding of Daming, Mu Ying led the army to conquer Tubo as a deputy marshal, and then led the troops to pacify Yunnan. After Yunnan was pacified, Mu Ying stayed in Yunnan for more than ten years, and her adoptive mother, Ma Huanghou, was only 48 years old and died of excessive grief and hematemesis. Mu Ying was loyal and brave all his life, extremely benevolent and effective, and was widely praised by later generations.
After Mu Ying's death, the Mu family inherited the title, and eleven descendants guarded Yunnan for Daming until the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Mu, the eleventh descendant of Mu, swore to defend Zhu Youlang, the king of national subjugation, into Myanmar, where he was found out by Burmese soldiers and died in battle, which is a model of loyal monarch serving the country in ancient China.
Mu Jiansheng and Mu Jianbing in the novel are his children, but these two brothers and sisters are obviously fictional characters.
In addition, there are many other figures in the duke of mount deer who appear in real history, so I won't list them one by one. As an author, I think novels with real history as the background, whether the plot is fictional or not, will have a more sense of bringing in. Reasonable tampering and adding interesting plots can make the novel more colorful.
Mr. Jin Yong was so clever in integrating the two into his novels that he wrote this series of works that fascinated Chinese people all over the world. Thank you, Master Jin. We will always remember you and remember you.