Yue Fei's prestige is well-known to everyone, but it is a pity that many people's cognition of him only stays at the literary level, not the historical truth.Because in the minds of many people, Yue Fei belongs to the same category as Monkey King, Zhu Bajie, Lin Chong, Wu Song and others. Of course, this has something to do with Yue Fei's particularity. As a victim of the peace talks between Song and Jin Dynasties, Yue Fei died unjustly.But because of his great influence, Qin Hui spared no effort to destroy Yue Fei's military exploits and distort and uglify Yue Fei's image in order to get Yue Fei convicted of "rebellion".He also arranged for his godson Qin Xi to edit the chronicle of Song Gaozong during his lifetime - "Gaozong Calendar", arbitrarily tampering with official history and strictly prohibiting private history.Even after Yue Fei's death, no one dared to rectify Yue Fei's name. On the contrary, there were still remarks such as "It's not a private loan for fighting with an iron axe, so Yue Fei and Fan Qiong were all given to death by domineering" and put Yue Fei to death. Compared with the notorious rebel Fan Qiong, he praised Qin Hui as "Pei Duzhi's true sage".

The time was pushed back to the 31st year of Shaoxing (1161), when Wan Yanliang, king of Hailing in the Kingdom of Jin, invaded the south on a large scale. Only then did someone think of Yue Fei and the Yue family army, and demanded that Yue Fei be exonerated, so as to arouse the spirit of loyal ministers and righteous men in the world. It was Song Gaozong's hope to revive the morale of the army, but he refused to admit his fault for killing Yue Fei in public, and refused to vindicate him. It was not until the fifth year of Chunxi (1178) that Song Xiaozong rehabilitated Yue Fei, recovered his original post, and was buried under Qixia Ridge with rituals.

This year, Yue Fei has been buried underground for thirty-six years.In the past thirty-six years, "Mian, Hubei, Qi and Huang have traveled a thousand miles, let alone the Yue family army." Many historical materials about Yue Fei have been lost and cannot be examined again.However, the "E State Jin Tuo Compilation" and "E State Jin Tuo Continuation" collected and compiled by Yue Fei's son Yue Lin and grandson Yue Ke are only one or two out of ten of them. Although historical facts cannot be tested, Yue Fei's loyalty and awe-inspiring spirit will last forever.

"Meng Liang Lu" (written around 1275) records: "There are six senior officials of the king, who were originally ministers in front of the imperial court. Please give them to the ministers. They are familiar with all kinds of history. During the Xianchun period, they performed "Fu Hua Pian" And "The Legend of Zhongxing Famous Generals", many listeners, Gai's words are really good, and the records are very wide-ranging." Here it is mentioned that "Wang Liu Dafu" is a famous artist who specializes in speaking at the court. During the Xianchun period, the performances of "Fu Hua Pian" and "The Legend of ZTE Famous Generals" attracted "a lot of listeners".

Zhang Zhenghong, a modern scholar, believes that "Fu Hua Pian" refers to "Fu Hua Pian" compiled by Liao Yingzhong in the Southern Song Dynasty; It also evolved from this. Although this statement is not necessarily accurate, what is certain is that "Fuhua Chapter" and "Zhongxing Famous Generals" tell the story of the battle between Song and Jin, and the protagonist in it is Yue Fei.In other words, the "speaker" of Lin'an Wazi in the Southern Song Dynasty was already telling the story of Yue Fei. Luo Ye of the Song Dynasty's "Drunkard Talking Records" records "Tongueng Xuyin·Introduction to Novels": "New talk about Zhang, Han, Liu, and Yue; history books talk about Jin, Song, Qi, and Liang. "Three Kingdoms" Zhuge Liangxiong; Take Xixia and talk about Di Qing's general strategy. He said that the country's thieves harbored traitors and sycophants, and sent foolish men and others to be angry; he said that loyal ministers were wronged, and their hard-hearted people had to cry." At this time, people not only praised heroes like Yue Fei in books, He also began to scold traitors like Qin Hui.

Since then, the Yuan Zaju "Dongchuang Incident", the Ming novel "Jing Zhong Lu", "The Popular Romance of the Great Song Zhongxing", "Jing Zhong Banner", "Song General Yue Fei Jing Zhong", "Yue Fei Breaks the Dong Chuang Ji", "Jing Zhong Ji" ", "Continued Biography of the Dongchuang Incident", etc., are various and widely circulated. Such works are often seriously deviated from historical facts (because there are too few historical materials, it is difficult to write realistically), wild and unconstrained, and extremely exaggerated (for example, in "Song General Yue Fei Jingzhong", Yue Yun single-handedly defeated the 400,000 troops in the front of Wushu, etc.), The legendary color hanging over Yue Fei became more and more intense, and Yue Fei began to degenerate from a historical figure to a literary figure.

In the novels of the Ming Dynasty, Yue Fei transformed gorgeously and became a character at the level of a fairy.Sun Wukong worshiped him as his teacher, and interrogated Qin Hui on behalf of the king of Hades, and tortured Qin Hui into pus and blood. The plot was strange.Ming Dynasty dramatist Ling Xingqing's "Guan Yue Confession" worships Guan Yu as a god and Yue Fei as a general.Another dramatist, Qi Linjia, wrote in "Saving the Jingzhong" that Yue Fei did not serve as a class teacher, but went straight to Huanglong, returned the two saints, and killed Qin Hui.The subsequent "Ru Shi Guan" followed this path, capitalizing "Fan Jing Zhong".

Of course, there are also some of them under the banner of "documentary", such as "The Biography of Yue Wumu's Jingzhong" and "The Biography of Yue Wumu's Loyal Service to the Country" based on the abridged "Popular Romance of Zhongxing of the Great Song Dynasty".Although the idea of ​​gods and monsters is eliminated, the story is closer to reality.But in this way, the plot is too simple and far from satisfying people's worship of Yue Fei, a legendary hero.In the Qing Dynasty, folk art was extremely developed, and Yue Fei's stories were presented in various forms such as ballads, Nanci, octagonal drum, Sichuan bamboo qin, Tanci, Zidishu, Guziqu, Shipaishu, Kuaishu, etc. According to folklore, Yue Fei's prestige is well known among the people.

In the end, it was Qian Cai from the Qing Dynasty who made a three-dimensional, all-round portrayal of Yue Fei's image and fixed it in frame! It is a re-creation based on the notes, novels, dramas and other relevant story materials left by predecessors. Its appearance is a sign of the maturity of Yue Fei's story.The book's distinction between loyalty and traitor, karma, and idealistic fatalism are in line with the interests of ordinary people. Once the book was published, it attracted a lot of attention and gained a large readership.People have a lot of stories about Yue Fei's "killing a snake in Liquan cave", "picking the king of Xiaoliang with a gun", "eight hundred thousand people in Qinglong mountain", Niu Gao's "marriage at Outangguan", "golden Wushu with anger" and other stories. Talk about it with relish, and believe it.There are even many people who believe that after Yue Fei's death, his son Yue Lei defeated the Golden Army, went straight to Huanglong, killed Qin Hui, his wife and his son Qin Xi, etc., all of which were true—taking the joke as history.

Even some people with a higher level of education only know that Yue Fei was convicted "for no reason", but they are not very clear about the ins and outs.Not to mention the three "crimes" that Zhao Gou finally convicted Yue Fei, he knew nothing about it. Or, although they know Yue Fei's reputation, they don't know his life. Wen Tianxiang praised Yue Fei and said: "Mr. Yue, I am Lu Shang of the Song Dynasty. His achievements are recorded in the annals of history. Thousands of generations later, it is like seeing his life. As for the brushwork, it is like clouds and cranes traveling in the sky, and a group of people playing in the sea. The choice of Qiancheng, but also the strength of literature, no one in my world can match it." Sun Yat-sen commented on Yue Fei in modern times, saying: "The soul of Yue Fei is the spiritual representative of the Chinese nation, that is, the national soul."

Mao Zedong also said: "When Yue Fei was killed, he became a household name and became famous through the ages. He shed blood, and this blood penetrated into the body of our nation and was passed down from generation to generation." Based on this understanding, the author feels that it is necessary to mention Yue Fei again. Fortunately, Deng Guangming and Wang Zengyu, two master historians of the Song Dynasty, made a lot of additions to Yue Fei's historical materials through searching a large number of historical books. The form restores a real Yue Fei. As the saying goes: