In the short history of more than ten years in Nanming, the two most influential historical figures are Zheng Chenggong, king of Yanping County, and Li Dingguo, king of Jin. They represent the Southern Ming orthodoxy and the Qing Dynasty, especially Li Dingguo. After returning to the Ming dynasty, it was a big country, which almost reversed the anti-Qing situation that was extremely unfavorable to Nanming. Judging from its anti-Qing function, it should be regarded as the first person in Nanming, but why is such a great man blurred in later generations?
Li Dingguo's position and achievements in Nanming can be compared with heroes like Yue Fei, but he rarely appears in various film and television dramas. None of them can fully show the magnificent life of this hero. There are even some film and television dramas that vilify Li Dingguo, portray him as a defeated soldier who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in a clear and black way, and even change his real name in a TV series "Long Hedong Liu" that describes Li Dingguo in a positive image.
Although there are reasons for national harmony, most of the film and television dramas related to Nanming are about love affairs, and Qinhuai Bamei and Romantic Childe have also appeared on the screen many times, but other famous figures who have appeared in Nanming have contributed a lot, such as Zheng Chenggong, who has received great praise, while Li Dingguo, who has surpassed Zheng Chenggong, has no voice. Why? Bian Xiao didn't have a clue until one day I saw an old report.
The main content of this report is that in 2002, after the filming of Feng Kuzi's film world without thieves was completed, there was no trial for the first time. The reason is also very simple. At the end of the story, the thief played by Andy Lau suddenly became a good man, which did not conform to mainstream values. Later, when Rene Liu was sent to court for trial for the first time, she was not pregnant, so that the thief became a good man because his descendants changed their personalities, and the change of villains was well-founded.
From such reports, we can see that the boundaries of characters in film and television dramas have been carried forward and substituted into historical figures. In fact, Li Dingguo, like the thief in world without thieves, was born a rogue and rebelled with his adoptive father Zhang at an early age. Although Nanming was not the mainstream dynasty, it was still a thief in the history books of the Qing Dynasty, and the official history was dominated by the Qing Dynasty. Unless Nanming becomes a dynasty that can compete with the North like the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Dingguo will always be a non-mainstream savage.