After reading the prequel of "The Story of the Tang Dynasty", I learned about the legendary origin of the "magic detective" Su Wuming

The promotional poster for the show

said that this is a suspense + horror + martial arts drama.

Looking at the whole drama, this is a detective drama with martial arts elements, similar to the TV series " Detective Di Renjie ", although Li Yuanfang and Di Renjie both appeared on the scene, but Di Renjie is the proper No. 1 protagonist. He is also the central character of the whole play.

After watching the TV series "The Story of Tang Dynasty", I think Su Wuming's protagonist is stronger.

First of all, Su Wuming's ability to solve crimes is more professional than Lu Lingfeng.

Secondly, among the eight cases in the play, is only in the later cases of "Zhenshengtang" and "Shentianlou", where Lu Lingfeng played a bigger role. Su Wuming played a leading role in solving the remaining six cases of

. Especially when he was in trouble, he was almost always developing new ideas.

And Lu Lingfeng's main performance and role is to protect Su Wuming's personal safety, as well as some executive work.

That is, Su Wuming is in charge of the investigation, and Lu Lingfeng is in charge of the fight.


The historical prototype story of "Su Wuming"

" Tang Dynasty Strange Stories" series begins with solving the case: Wugong County Wei Su Wuming solved the princess's jewelry theft case, and was appreciated by the princess and transferred to Chang'an county captain. A similar story of

is recorded in the collection of novels " Jiwen " compiled by people Niu Su in the Tang Dynasty.

This book records some strange and strange things in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. One of the stories, "Su Wuming", tells of a man named "Su Wuming" who solved the theft of the princess' treasures, and can be called a "magic detective".

said that during the reign of Wu Zetian , he once rewarded his daughter Princess Taiping with some fine treasures, which were expensive. Princess Taiping kept them in a secret room in Luoyang, the eastern capital.



One year later, Princess Taiping remembered these treasures, but found that they were all stolen, and reported it to Wu Zetian.

Wu Zetian was furious, and immediately summoned the Luozhou Chief History of the eastern capital Luoyang, and said: "If you can't solve the case in three days, you will be sentenced!"

Luo Governor Shi did not dare to neglect, so he treated a few of his subordinates. The county lieutenants in charge of public security said: "If the case cannot be solved within two days, then the crime will be executed!"

The county lieutenants were in a state of panic, and said to their subordinates: "The case must be solved within one day and the thief captured. Otherwise, they will be executed according to their crimes!"

Under the pressure of increasing layers of code, the arresters immediately dispatched their nests to look for clues to solve the case. In the middle of

, You Zhukuai met Huzhou Do not drive Su Wuming on the street.

Su Wuming was famous for solving crimes and robbery when he was in office, and someone in Luozhou's arrest fast knows him. At this time, he happened to report to the imperial court in Luoyang, the eastern capital. The

arresters quickly told Su Wuming the difficulties they encountered and asked him to help solve the case, and Su Wuming readily agreed.

So, Su Wuming was invited to the county captain's father-in-law.

The county lieutenant quickly took him to meet his boss, Governor Luo Shi.

Don't drive and Chang Shi are both members of the leadership team of a state. After the two chatted, Su Wuming said that in order to solve the case, Chang Shi needed to accompany him to meet Wu Zetian for face-to-face communication.

After all, the theft of jewelry is related to the face of the royal family and the court, so Wu Zetian made an exception to meet them.

When Wu Zetian asked Su Wuming's confidence in catching the criminal, Su Wuming said:

"If Your Majesty trusts me and entrusts me to solve the case, don't set the date. And don't force Luozhou officials to solve the case, and hand over the Luozhou public security team to the police. Just give me the command. Then, I have the confidence to catch the thieves within a few dozen days."

The case is sudden, and there is no clue yet, and it is obviously unrealistic to force the officials to solve the case within a few days. Moreover, Su Wuming, as a Huzhou Biejia, was not out of line to temporarily command and mobilize officials in Luozhou.

So, Wu Zetian agreed to Su Wuming's request for .

has passed more than a month, it is Hanshi Festival is the Qingming Festival.

Su Wuming called the arresters together and ordered:

"Every ten or five of you, wait at the east gate and north gate of Luoyang City. If you find more than a dozen Hu people wearing filial attire and go out of the city together. , go to Mangshan in the north of the city to sweep the tombs, follow them, and send someone to report to me quickly." The arresters obeyed and acted separately.

Sure enough, they found a group of Hu people wearing filial piety clothes heading out of the city to Mangshan, so they sent someone to follow them, and quickly sent someone to report it to Su Wuming.



After Su Wuming heard the news, he took people to the scene of the cemetery in Mangshan.

He asked the Hu Kuai waiting here, what did these barbarians do?

The Hu Kuai replied:

"They went to a new grave to pay homage to the tomb. What's strange is that they were just crying, not sad. Quickly remove the memorial items, and look around the tomb, looking at each other and smiling."

Su Wuming said happily, "That's right! The case is solved today!"

Immediately, He ordered the dozen or so Hu people to be immediately arrested and brought to justice.

At the same time, he ordered the tomb to be dug up. The crowd dug up the grave and cut open the coffin, and found that the coffin contained some jewels, which matched the treasures lost by Princess Taiping.



So, Wuming Su reported the results of the case to Wu Zetian.

Wu Zetian was overjoyed and asked Su Wuming: "What clever method did Aiqing use to capture the thief?"

Su Wuming replied:

"It's not a clever minister. A few days ago, when I arrived at Luoyang , just in time When I met this group of Hu people carrying their coffins for a funeral, I felt abnormal when I saw that they were not mourning, but I didn’t know where their cemetery was.

Today is the Cold Food Festival, and the residents of the city are going to visit the graves as usual, so I expected this group People will also go. I sent people to follow them, and I knew where their graves were.

They paid homage but did not mourn, indicating that the tombs may not be people; They are proud of the damage to the contents of the tomb."



Wu Zetian continued to ask: "Since you were so confident, why did you stop me from urging the investigation and setting a deadline for solving the case?"

Su Wuming replied:

" If His Majesty had ordered the thieves to be solved within a time limit, the thieves would have jumped over the wall and fled with the stolen property, then it would have been difficult for us to catch them. If we did not rush to track down the thieves, the thieves would have been paralyzed and would not have brought the property with them. If we flee, it will help our people to get the stolen goods." After hearing this, Wu Zetian said happily: "Aiqing's words are reasonable and really clever." .

"Su Wuming"'s method of solving the case

The above is the story recorded in the ancient books, and it is also the introduction of the TV series "The Story of the Tang Dynasty".

The play adopts the technique of moving flowers and connecting trees, naming the protagonist "Su Wuming", and saying that he is the closed disciple of "Detective" Di Renjie to increase the halo of the character.

Furthermore, at the beginning of the episode, it is said that he cracked the princess's jewelry theft case in Wugong County Wei Ren, and was appreciated by the princess and transferred to Chang'an County Lieutenant, thus embarking on a series of crime-solving journeys.



Moreover, at the beginning of the play, the background is set to the Jingyun period five years after Wu Zetian's death, that is, during the reign of Wu Zetian's son Tang Ruizong , the princess in the play is actually the Princess Taiping in the above story.

learned about Su Wuming's entry background, as well as his occupation and specialties, which helped him to feel his outstanding performance in the following series of cases.

As for whether he is a close disciple of "Detective" Di Renjie, there is no clear record in the historical records.

Actually, the above "In Ji Wen, the method of "Su Wuming" who solved the theft of the princess's treasures - smelling the cry to detect rape, has been recorded many times in ancient times.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the famous politician 's son had a story of "smell the cry and detect the traitor".

said that one day, Zichan passed by a village and saw a woman beside a roadside grave, paying homage to her husband who had just passed away.



Zichan felt that her crying voice was abnormal, and after listening carefully for a while, she asked her entourage to bring her over for questioning. Soon the woman confessed to killing her husband with her own hands. The reason for

's childbirth is very simple:

"Since it is a crying deceased husband, his wife's cry should be sad. But after I listened carefully, I felt that there was fear in her cry, so I concluded that there was a ghost in her heart."

obviously , Zichan relies on social experience and discernment.

Later, Eastern Han Dynasty thinker Wang Chong commented on Zichan:

"The Homo sapiens are also, know things to judge."

Zichan's method of "smell the cry and detect the traitor" has been widely respected in later generations, and there have been many similar cases of judgment. .

There are geniuses in the world, but only by the diligence and hard work of the day after tomorrow will the talent be brought into play to reflect the value of existence.

, such as "Detective" Zichan, Di Renjie, Su Wuming, Song Ci, etc., have extraordinary rational thinking ability, strong logical thinking ability, and are good at finding problems and clues in details. The quality of

has talent and potential, but it is more excavated and developed in the day after tomorrow.

is excellent, and it is not innate, but also the result of the acquired tempering the .

For example, in the TV series "Detective Di Renjie", Di Renjie once said: Among the many people who learned from me to detect cases, only Li Yuanfang and Zeng Tai had a good understanding and made the fastest progress.

is another example of Lu Lingfeng in the TV series "The Story of Tang Dynasty". He followed the "magic detective" Su Wuming to handle the case, and after being tempered by , grew into a case-handling expert. Finally, at a young age, he served as the Vice President of the Supreme Court of Datang - Dali Temple Shaoqing, in charge of the prison trial.

Therefore, from the "Story of the Tang Dynasty", in addition to watching the story to pass the time and feel happy, we might as well experience some of the meaning behind the story, such as the realistic inspiration of the characters' images to us.