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"Art comes from life and is higher than life!"
I believe everyone has heard this sentence, in fact, it is true, a large part of the content of some books and film and television dramas we see comes from life.
The content is all fictional, not to mention the characters in it, but some of the characters are written too realistically, so we always thought that he was real, but in fact he was not.
Who are these characters? Are they real or fake?
Xue Pinggui
The first to appear is the well-known "negative man" Xue Pinggui, why this negative man has to put double quotation marks is because this character is very controversial.
Some people feel that Xue Pinggui is affectionate and righteous, and after learning the news of his wife, he will take his wife away, while some people feel that Xue Pinggui is stepping on two boats.
Obviously, his wife has been waiting for him for so many years, and after he learned that his wife had no news, he turned around and married her, and then after learning the news of Wang Baochuan, he took Wang Baochuan over.
Everyone has a different opinion on Xue Pinggui's behavior, after all, in the eyes of a thousand people, there are still a thousand Hamlets, so we can't ask for a unified standard.
But we can unify whether the character of Xue Pinggui is real, which is also very controversial.
In fact, this character is made up in the novel, and in order to enrich the content of the novel, the author conceives a character to add more color to the story.
But there is another voice, that is, Xue Pinggui's prototype is actually Xue Rengui, what's going on?
Xue Rengui is a real person in history, he does have the same background as Xue Pinggui, in the last years of Zhenguan, Xue Rengui joined the military camp, and then made countless military exploits.
The difference is that Xue Rengui's wife is an ordinary person, and the character of Xue Pinggui has indeed been appreciated by the eldest lady Wang Baochuan, from this point of view alone, the experiences of the two people are different.
The second is the story after that, Xue Rengui and Xue Pinggui are different, in fact, looking at it this way, the story of Xue Pinggui's character can only happen in the script.
Because it is really impossible to talk like this, and it does not conform to the situation at the time, it can only be said that Xue Pinggui is a fantasy that conforms to the script.
If there really was such a person in those days, it would be a mess.
All in all, although there is only a word difference between Xue Rengui and Xue Pinggui, there is no relationship between the two people, Xue Rengui is a real person in history, and Xue Pinggui is just a character in the words derived from the times.
貂蝉
Next is a big beauty, Sai Xishi's Diao Chan, the character who fascinated Lu Bu, is actually made up and does not exist in history.
Speaking of Diao Chan, I believe that everyone is no stranger, there are four beauties in ancient times, among which the closed moon refers to Diao Chan, whose beauty has been very prominent since childhood, coupled with extraordinary courage, makes Diao Chan famous.
When I was a teenager, I dared to go around between the two fierce and vicious bosses, but it is conceivable that Diao Chan's scheming and courage are really not blown out.
However, it was this teenage girl who caused Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo to be defeated under her pomegranate skirt one after another, and one lost his life because of this, and the other had his reputation ruined.
But the two of them didn't feel that there was anything wrong with it, and they were still thinking about Diao Chan, which was a beauty trick and didn't know it, so you can imagine how tough Diao Chan's methods were.
Looking at Diao Chan in this way, he is not a good person, but if you look at it in combination with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", what Diao Chan does is to maintain orthodoxy.
Because Dong Zhuo's position at that time was the identity of a "thief", in the face of this person, everyone was very afraid, afraid that if he didn't hit the key point, he would be retaliated.
In this case, Diao Chan invited himself to go, expressing his willingness to sacrifice himself to deal with Dong Zhuo, at that time, Diao Chan's behavior was not only to repay his adoptive father's nurturing kindness, but also to maintain orthodoxy, and directly achieved both loyalty and filial piety.
It's just that the controversial woman is a fictional character, and she is beautiful in the script, but no one knows how beautiful she is.
Some people also say that Diao Chan actually has a prototype, that is, in the incident of Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo's maid fornication, that maid is the prototype of Diao Chan's forehead.
What is the truth, there is no conclusion now, we can't speculate arbitrarily, we can only say that the character of Diao Chan is not real, and the rest of the answers can only be left to time to consider.
Mu Guiying
Speaking of heroines, there are really few in history, among which Mulan and Mu Guiying are the most controversial, this time we will first talk about the character of Mu Guiying.
Mu Guiying, a famous female general, I believe everyone is familiar with her, and they all feel that she is a real heroine in history, but in fact she does not exist, she is just a fictional character produced with the development of the times.
We almost all know her story, the Mu family army led by her looked down on her, used the art of war to the extreme, from being unappreciated, to the heroine who everyone admired in the end, Mu Guiying's growth history is really admirable.
But Mu Guiying, who was born in the village, fell in love with Yang Zongbao at first sight, and then boldly showed his love and pursued a bright future.
After catching up, Mu Guiying was even more heroic, and did not choose to be behind the scenes because of the change of identity, but at that time, it was difficult for female generals to recognize, so Mu Guiying can be said that even if she is very dissatisfied with the actions of the imperial court, she will endure it again and again.
At the end, Mu Guiying still sealed the marquis, and it is precisely because of this that the fictional component of Mu Guiying's character is greater.
Because during the Song Dynasty, the contemporary situation was that women would not be taken seriously, let alone a woman leading the war, which was simply nonsense.
Therefore, Mu Guiying's story is very shocking, but judging from the situation at the time, it can really be a derivative of the times, and this kind of plot can only appear in the script.
Of course, some people say that Mu Guiying's prototype is Yang Wenguang's wife, and there is no example of a woman being a marquis in history, according to historical records, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a female general who was made a marquis, she was Qin Liangyu.
However, Mu Guiying and Qin Liangyu should not have much to do with each other, so Mu Guiying is a character in the script.
epilogue
In the long river of history, there will be many characters we know and those we don't know, and there are true and false in between, and it is difficult for us to distinguish for a while.
In that case, let's just remember them, no matter what, the stories they brought to us are indelible!
Information sources:
1. The original article was published on Puyang.com on 2020-08-26 about "Many people are wondering, what is the relationship between Xue Pinggui and Xue Rengui?" It's actually very simple";
2. The original article was published on Qilu One Point 2020-04-09 on "The Real Yang Family General: Yang Zongbao Mu Guiying Does Not Exist, Yang Ye Died of Hunger Strike";
3. The original article was published in the entry report of Baidu Encyclopedia of "Diao Chan";