The same is the romance of the Three Kingdoms. Cao Cao is a traitor and a bad guy, and he has all the shortcomings of human nature. However, in the history of Cao Cao, we can see that Cao Cao was a famous strategist, politician and poet at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the founder and main founder of Wei State in the Three Kingdoms period, and later Wang Wei. After his son Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor, he was honored as Wei Wudi.
It can be seen that the characters in traditional Chinese opera novels are romantic artistic creations divorced from objective facts, with the author's subjective thoughts and desire to express some intention. For example, the romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Although The Romance of the Three Kingdoms takes history as its theme, it is not a history book after all, but a literary work. Because of artistic processing, there are many fictions.
Cao Cao's character is very complicated in history. Chen Shou believes that Cao Cao is "the most powerful in the history of the Three Kingdoms". "The magic of application and transaction, the unique strategy of North Korea and Belarus, and the materials given and received by the government have their own tools, which are hypocritical and willful, and do not forget the old evils." Cao Cao has been in charge of the army for more than 30 years, but he can't let go. He must be endowed when he climbs high. He is better at poetry, cursive script and Go. Live frugally and don't pay attention to clothes. Discuss with others, laughing and laughing. "Honor should be rewarded, generous daughter; Nothing can be done, nothing can be done. " He is a first-rate politician, strategist and writer in the history of China. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, these good aspects of Cao Cao's character and morality are ignored, while his cruel and treacherous side is exaggerated. Therefore, Luo Guanzhong's Cao Cao is a typical treacherous, cruel, willful and suspicious villain.
The author has very strong feudal thoughts and limitations, and all kinds of feudal superstitions are among them. The evaluation of Cao Cao is seriously biased, and some contents are untrue.
Therefore, the characters in the play are only artistic characters, and the author achieves the purpose of respecting Liu by restraining Cao, which reflects the author's subjective thinking about the imperial power of the regime.
However, a real historical figure is complicated. If he has shortcomings, he must have advantages and two sides. With the change of his identity, he actively or passively carries out some willing or helpless actions. Then people's evaluation is different. Right or wrong is not as clear as the characters in the play, and the evaluation is different in different periods. Drama characters are generally shaped into typical and vivid images, which is also the life of drama novels.
So I think there is a big difference between dramatic figures and historical figures. We should not stubbornly distinguish who is right and who is wrong, but should treat what is desirable and what is dross with a comprehensive and objective eye, and eliminate dross.
Analyze and solve problems from the viewpoint of materialist dialectics.