The Pingyin people in You Junda in The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties used to be the leaders of Shandong Greenwood. Does he exist in history?

You Junda in The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties is from Pingyin, Yanzhou, Shandong. He is the main leader of Shandong Green Forest. He once robbed the palace with Cheng, and later joined the Wagang Army, and later joined many heroes of the Wagang Army in the Tang Dynasty. After that, he made expeditions to the east and west, and died under Su Wen's flying knife.

You Junda is a fictional character, but he has a historical prototype, that is, Niu Xiu, a general in the early Tang Dynasty.

There is no biography of Niu Jinda in Old Tang Shu and New Tang Shu, but his life track should be similar to that of Qin and Cheng. He went from Wagangjun to Wang, but he joined the Tang Dynasty because he was dissatisfied with Wang, and became a subordinate of the King of Qin.

Later, Niu Jinda participated in the war between Tubo and Koguryo, and made great contributions.

The interesting place is here. According to the epitaph of Niu Jinda unearthed in 1976, his great-grandfather Niu Ding was the secretariat of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the county magistrate of the Plain. His grandfather, Niu Shuang, was a general in Dongzhen, Northern Qi Dynasty, and was a satrap in Huaibei, which shows that he came from an official family. However, in the romance of the novel, You Junda comes from a rather grassroots background and associates with Cheng who sells firewood.

Historically, Cheng Zhijie, his grandfather's uncle and his father were also officials of the Northern Qi Dynasty or the Sui Dynasty. Mr. Chen Yinque once wrote in On the Late Sui and Early Tang Dynasties? Shandong hero? "mentioned? Shandong hero? It is a mixed, effective and organized group gradually developed through the Northern Wei, Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasties. According to the parents and grandparents of Cheng Zhijie and Niu Jinda, the best of them became officials in the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasties. Therefore, many Shandong heroes in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties joined the uprising army, but they were all born in official families.

By the time the creation of Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties also included the preparation of some material resources for its previous works, the whole social structure had undergone tremendous changes compared with the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Later, there appeared more heroic historical figures born in the early dynasty in history, and their deeds were more celebrated by the people. Therefore, You Junda and Cheng, who took Jin Niu Dahe as the prototype, became people who came from civilian families completely, which was far from the historical prototype.