What does Dracula mean?

To put it simply, his prototype is a Romanian Lord, very cruel. After his death, it was rumored that he was a vampire ... translated as Drakula or Dracula. However, although his legend has a long history, he is really famous thanks to Stoke's novel Dracula.

For most people who live outside Romania, the name Dracula will immediately bring to their eyes the image of an evil vampire aristocrat: he lives in a dangerous castle, and the castle is in place.

On the high mountain in Transylvania haunted by ghosts. In Romania, the word Drakula has two meanings: on the one hand, it represents the absurd combination of history and legend, which brings a lot of tourism income to the local people; On the other hand, this word is also the name of a national hero who fought to the death to defend Romania's independence and national identity.

Drakula's real name is Vlad III, and his father Willard II was knighted by the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and became a member of the Christian Dragon Knight. /kloc-In the 5th century, people in Eastern Europe were not afraid of vampires, but of Turks. The growing influence of Ottoman Turks poses a growing threat to the whole of Eastern Europe, and the Royal Dragon Knight will swear to fight the Turks to the end. In Romanian, "Delacou" means "Dragon", while "Drakula" or "Drakula" means "Son of Dragon". Willard II was the Lord of Transylvania at that time. After being knighted, he was awarded the title of "Prince of Valladia" (Valladia is in present-day southern Romania). The pattern of the Dragon Knight's Tuan Tuan emblem is a dragon hanging on a cross. He used this sign to decorate his clothes and the coins he issued. People call him "Delacou" and sometimes "Drakula" to show that he is a member of the Dragon. However, "Delacou" has another meaning in Romanian, and that is "devil". So Willard III's enemies took advantage of this to accuse him of being "the son of the devil", because as a prince, Willard III's birth was somewhat ambiguous. It is precisely because of the double meanings of this word that the British writer braam stock (1847 19 12) named the vampire demon in his horror novel Drakula "Drakula".

Willard III was born in Transylvania in 143 1. Later, he and his younger brother were sent to Turkey as hostages because the Turks wanted to contain his father. After his father and brother were assassinated by Valkyrie aristocrats, Willard III returned to his motherland, intending to inherit the title of prince. However, he was soon deported by the enemy. A few years later, Willard III returned to Wallachia again. This time, he killed his opponent and ascended the throne of the prince, thus beginning his six-year rule. During this period, he got the nickname "Tepes" (meaning "Puncher") because he was used to crucifying criminals, traitors, Turkish prisoners, despicable businessmen and anyone he didn't like. To be fair, Willard III was not completely arbitrary when he was stabbed. He is a strict ruler and will never tolerate even the smallest illegal act, that's all.

On a sunny Easter morning, Willard the Driller held a banquet and invited all the nobles suspected of murdering his father. After a few commonplaces, Willard nailed them directly to the picket line. Those who were lucky enough not to be executed embarked on a 50-kilometer journey of death, and the survivors of this journey were forced to toil in the real castle of Drakula-the castle was in the north of Wallachia, not in Transylvania.

Willard the Piercer was especially cruel to the Saxons, the Germanic immigrants in Transylvania. Unlike Drakula in the novel, he did not stay in Transylvania for a long time when he was in office. He will only go once in a while, "stab" thousands of people, and then leave. Saxon businessmen like to make false accounts and deceive the ignorant, while Willard is famous for his great respect for honesty but no pity. His cheating methods are also very strict, just as he used to deal with Saxons who helped others and robbed him of the throne. Therefore, Saxon travelers who returned to their motherland began to spread stories about Willard the Piercer. Later, with the help of the new printing press, these stories became one of the earliest examples of gossip. Brochures describing Willard's story are very popular and distributed everywhere. It is said that even the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire enjoyed reading Willard's stories and was interested in the cruel justice pursued by the strict monarch of Wallachia.

In the end, the Turks invaded Willard's territory on a large scale, which exceeded Willard's resistance. He was forced to retreat while implementing the scorched earth strategy. The Turks who lacked water and food were forced to withdraw. Willard carefully prepared a parting gift for them: 20,000 Turkish prisoners were nailed to spikes. For Willard, the war against the Turks was a great success-he became a hero in the Christian world. However, it didn't take long for Wallachian nobles and Saxon businessmen who were afraid of Willard's stabbing to spread despicable rumors about him, so the Hungarian king ordered him to be arrested. The Hungarians caught Willard and sent him to Budapest. In the next few years, Willard can only enjoy the scenery of the Danube River in Wesgler Castle in the north of Budapest. After his release, Willard was sent back to Wallachia to deal with the Turks. This time the Turks came even harder, and Willard was killed in the melee. His death may be an accident, or it may be because he was betrayed, but it was definitely not because of vampires. He was buried in Snagov, a small village north of Budapest. Faced with troubles such as the rise of Protestantism, the western world soon forgot Willard, and pamphlets about his evil deeds became unpopular decades after his death.

400 years passed quickly, and braam stock, who wanted to make a fortune by vampires, wrote a novel Drakula about a vampire aristocrat in Transylvania. In order to write this book, Stoke did a lot of research on the geography, culture and folk customs of northern Transylvania. Many people think that Drakula in the book is completely based on Willard the Piercer, but they are actually the same person (vampire). Some literary research experts, historians and filmmakers support this view. The most recent example is "Unusual Love: 400 Years as a Vampire" directed by Coppola. In the film, Willard cursed God and became a vampire after his wife died. However, Professor ElizabethMiller, the author of Drakula Guide, does not agree with this view. She thinks that Stoke's inspiration only comes from the name Drakula, not Willard, a historical figure. Stoke briefly introduced the historical background of Drakula, and he didn't even know Drakula's real name. The Earl of Drakula in Stoke's works is a Szkli, who is said to be descended from Huns, while Willard is a Wallachian. In addition, Stoke, who attached great importance to details, didn't mention Drakula's "piercing" behavior, which only showed that he didn't know these things.

Drakula has achieved great success in the world. 193 1 year, the film of the same name starring Hungarian Bella Lugosi came out. This film and Lugosi's wonderful performance made Count Drakula deeply involved in the cultural consciousness of westerners, and people began to be interested in finding the "real Drakula". Numerous books and documentaries have made people around the world know Willard Pierce better. Today, Willard is almost as famous as his alienated self vampire. In Romania, people have different reactions to this. Some people saw a shortcut to earn tourism income, but others thought it was a plot by Hungarians to belittle this Romanian hero. Some critics believe that the novel Drakula is the product of morbid psychology. Besides, things got worse because bela lugosi, who was born in Transylvania, didn't like Romanians.

The Romanian attitude is easy to understand. If any eastern European writer writes George Washington or Elizabeth I as an evil brain-eating zombie, the reaction of westerners will not be different. From the perspective of15th century, whether Willard the Piercer is a hero, a villain or a sadist depends entirely on whose side you stand. Today, different people still have different understandings of this historical figure. In any case, the scenery in Transylvania is still beautiful, because tourists from Drakula or Willard III are still coming to Transylvania.