There is no such person as Song Wu in history. Why is there a tomb of Song Wu in Hangzhou?

In the classic Water Margin, Song Wu is a very popular figure.

Song Wu is brave and good at fighting. Although he was suspected of indiscriminate killing, he made a cooperation agreement, and he was a man who dared to speak out, so he was highly praised by readers and many people, ranking among the top three in the popularity of Water Margin.

Many people think that Song Wu is a fictional character, but there really is a Song Wu Temple in Hangzhou, where Song Wu of the Song Dynasty was buried.

Song Wu Temple does exist, and it is indeed Song Wu who is buried in it, but it is not Song Wu in Water Margin, but another Song Wu.

In recent years, influenced by the concept of "establishing the city by culture and creating drama by economy", many places are flaunting and competing for the hometown, former residence, grave and even beauty and ugliness of celebrities.

For example, Ximen Qing, Pan Jinlian, and Monkey King also advertised in Yuanyang County, Henan Province. The monument and the monument framed Yue Fei, and Guizhou and Yunnan competed for the famous flag in the late Ming Dynasty. Forced to attract fictional or mythical characters.

Is it like this in Songwu Temple? Definitely not.

Song Wu in Water Margin is a tiger hero. Always be brave and fair. The real Song Wu in history was also a "tiger hero" who killed the people, but he hit a "big tiger" instead of an ordinary "little fly".

Stories such as Zhejiang Tongzhi, Lin 'an County Chronicle, Hangzhou Fuzhi and West Lake Grand View show that during the Huizong period of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a Jianghu artist named Song Wu in Hangzhou, who was originally from Qinghe County (now Qinghe County, Hebei Province) and later moved to Hangzhou. He has no reason to be helpless.

One day, Gao Quan, governor of Hangzhou, met Song Wu by chance. Seeing Song Wu's martial arts, prestige and outstanding talent, he invited him to Qingpu as an infantry stationed in Hangzhou, and gradually became the confidant of Governor Gao Quanji.

Later, Gao Quan was expelled from public office because he offended senior people. Wu Song was not only implicated, but also expelled from the yamen.

Later, Hangzhou Branch recruited people with backgrounds. He was the son of a Cai Jing at that time. Like his father, he is a traitor. He relied on his father's power to bully and lose his temper with the people, which made the people's grievances boil. People in Hangzhou are afraid of his power and dare not get angry with his evil deeds. They secretly called him "Cai Hao" behind his back.

Song Wu witnessed the evil deeds of conscription and was determined to kill the people. He hid a sharp blade and prepared to collect tigers. One day, Song Wu spied it from the fairy, rushed up at once, and his hand fell off the knife, which ended Cai Rouang's life. However, the officers and men of the immortals soon came to besiege Song Wu, and Song Wudang was arrested and severely punished in prison.

Song Wu in Water Margin can learn from the actual deeds of Song Wu in history. This is even more obvious.

Song Wu sacrificed his life and killed the "big tiger" known as "conscription" and killed the local people. Deeply moved by Song Wu's great kindness, Hangzhou people packed Song Wu's body and buried it in Xilingqiao Street, Hangzhou, and set up a tombstone, calling it "the Tomb of Song Yi". After the completion of the Songwu Temple, it was loved and protected by the people of Hangzhou, but it was destroyed by the inscriptions of war. 1894, when Hangzhou was repairing the city wall, workers dug up the wooden board of the coffin head and named it "the crown of Song and Wu Dynasties".

"Once, suddenly there was a coffin. When it grows up, the coffin has rotted, and the bones are quite large from the rotting cracks, which is restorative. "

1924, Song Wu Temple was moved to Xiling Bridge in Hangzhou. Shanghai coal industry generals, Zhang and Du Yuecheng donated money to commemorate the monument.

Forty years later, the Songwu Temple and its cemetery were destroyed in 1964, which may be influenced by the movement at that time.

Forty years later, in 2004, in order to meet the requirements of the general public and tourists, Hangzhou decided to rebuild the cemetery as it was published in this newspaper on the basis of argumentation by relevant experts and scholars. This is the Songwu Temple seen on the Xiling Bridge today.

Accompanied by Song Wu is another famous Hang Cheng prostitute Xiaoxiao, who is less than 50 meters away.

According to local people in Hangzhou, when the Songwu Temple was discovered, there was only a rotten coffin, but there were no valuable funerary objects, and the bones inside were still there. However, it is impossible to verify whether the ashes belong to Song Wu thousands of years ago, but this does not affect Song Wuguo's "killing tigers" or his admiration for the people's spirit of offering sacrifices to the sea.