Is there really a Li Yuanba in history?

1, a fictional character, is a classical novel of Tang Dynasty, as well as a story about Tang Dynasty, a biography of a tile cylinder hero and the romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties. But there is a historical prototype, and this prototype is Li Xuanba, the third son of Tang Gaozu Tang Gaozu.

2. Li Xuanba (599 -6 14), the word Dade, was the third son of Dou Taihou Li Yuan. In the tenth year of the Great Cause of Sui Dynasty (6 14), he died young at the age of 16, and was named Wang Wei by Tang Gaozu Li Yuan. Later generations changed his name to Li Yuanba because he avoided the name of Emperor Kangxi Michelle Ye.

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The Legend of the Tang Dynasty is a chapter-by-chapter heroic legendary novel in the Qing Dynasty, with a total of 68 chapters. It is called Revision of Yuan Shuiyu, referred to as The Legend of the Tang People for short. Later, it was engraved with Legend of the Tang Dynasty and Three Biographies of the Tang Dynasty, which was renamed The Complete Biography of the Tang People. At present, the earliest block print is Guimao (1783) published in the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, with 68 times. With the preface of the first year of Qianlong (1736), Chen Ruheng, printed by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, rewrote the book Tang Shuo 66 times to honor Germany in the Qianlong period. , mainly tells the story of Wagangzhai heroes gathering righteousness against Sui Dynasty and assisting in the construction of Tang Dynasty, reproduces the turbulent era of the 18th Route Anti-Wang and the 64th Route Anti-Wang, and focuses on legends such as Cheng, Dan, Luo Cheng and Weichi Gong. Many stories are very attractive, such as selling horses and robbing the king by cheng, which can be said to be well known to all women and children. Although the lines of the characters are rough, they are vivid and vivid. So this book is widely circulated among the people and has a great influence.

In the Ming Dynasty, novels describing the Sui and Tang wars flourished, including Luo Guanzhong's Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Han Lin's Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Xiong's Biography of Tang Dynasty, Yuan Yuling's Legacy of Sui History and Zhu Shenglin's Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Chu people were published in The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties. There are many official biographies of this kind of works, which are self-contained thanks to the essays of Tang and Song Dynasties.

It is generally believed that sixty-eight copies of Tang Shuo were produced during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and there are many versions, including Chongde Academy, Guanshushe, Shengde Tangben, Shancheng Tang Ben, Huiwen Tang Ben, Yugushan Fangben, etc., and there are more unknown versions that have long been forgotten.

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