The famous works of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Lao Lewai criticized the short and long. When you see the title "Three "Jin Dings" in Sui and Tang novels: one married Luo Cheng, one married Xue Dingshan , and one was beheaded by Jin Ding, do you think it's a bit like a tongue twister? However, in the numerous versions of heroic stories from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, these three characters named "Jin Ding" do exist in the novels, and they are all female characters, namely Zhuang Jinding and Xue Dingshan, the wives of Luo Cheng. His wife Chen Jinding , and the female general Su Jinding from a foreign country.
Because there are not many ancient women with names that have been passed down, so in storytelling novels, when the names of female characters need to appear, they can only rely on the author or old artists to make them up out of thin air. However, due to the limitations of the times, most of these women's names are " "XX flower", "XX Ying", "XX lotus", such as Fan Lihua , She Saihua. Mu Guiying, Wang Lanying, Xue Jinlian, Jin Yulian, etc. The most famous one is the "Golden Lotus" in "Water Margin". Among these similar names, the name "Jin Ding" seems to be more common, such as the three people Lao Le will introduce in this article.
In fact, the story of Zhuang Jinding is not introduced much in the novel. What everyone can know is that she is Luo Cheng’s wife. However, in different versions, there are many more Luo Cheng’s wives, such as Dou Xianniang, Shan Yingying , Xinyue'e, and even Hua Mulan's sister Hua Youlan. Therefore, Zhuang Jinding is mostly just a symbolic character in the novel, Luo Cheng's wife and Luo Tong's mother.
As for Chen Jinding, she has a lot more roles. Her husband Xue Dingshan is not only this wife, but also the more famous ones are Fan Lihua and Dou Xiantong. Moreover, Xue Dingshan’s wives are all heroic women with great supernatural powers and extraordinary bravery. They all made a lot of contributions to the Tang Dynasty during Xue Dingshan’s Western Expedition, especially Chen Jinding. In the novel, she is Xue Dingshan's only wife, and Fan Lihua and Dou Xiantong did not appear at all. The Tang army relied on these two couples, plus Xue Dingshan's sister Xue Jinlian and Qin Qiong's son Qin Huaiyu , to successfully conquer the west.
So, what happened to Su Jinding? Which "Jin Ding" was she beheaded by? Speaking of this role, I still have to mention "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty". The person who killed her was naturally Chen Jinding. This is because Su Jinding is the aunt of Su Hai, Su Baotong's number one enemy of the Xue family. Since Su Hai couldn't defeat Xue Dingshan, he could only ask his aunt who had practiced magic since childhood. Without saying a word, Su Jinding helped his nephew deal with the Tang army and shot Xue Dingshan with a poisonous arrow. The little hero panicked and fled to Chen Jinding's home. As a result, Chen Jinding devoted himself to Tang. He not only cured Xue Dingshan's arrow wound, but also took advantage of Su Jinding's opportunity to chase Dingshan to his home and decisively killed the enemy general while Su Jinding was unprepared. Relying on these two major achievements, Chen Jinding took the initiative to propose marriage to Xue Dingshan, and a marriage was achieved.
After Lao Le's simple sorting, it is not difficult to find that the space for veteran artists to name female characters is relatively limited, and they even go to the trouble of writing in a work that one "Jin Ding" kills another " "Golden Deposit" content. So, why do these problems occur? Lao Le privately believes that the tradition of naming women is mainly based on plants that represent softness, such as flowers, orchids, lotus, etc. If you want to get rid of this "conventional", elegantly call women The word "daughter of gold" has become an important source for choosing a name, and the hero's wife, or the heroine itself, needs to reflect their powerful side, so adding the word "gold" to the word "gold" naturally appears.
Having said that, whether it is Luo Cheng or Xue Dingshan, these male generals are actually fictional in novels. After all, there are no generals with these names in the history books. Luo Cheng's prototype is probably The young hero Luo Shixin in the late Sui Dynasty, and the prototype of Xue Dingshan is more likely to be Xue Rengui his son Xue Na in the history books.But among the people, their influence is far behind the heroes spread through commercial literary novels. From this perspective, although novels are not history, they have extremely important value in popularizing history, right? ?
