This is the difference between feature films and historical films. In fact, there is no Yang Xizhen in history. His prototype is Weng Tonghe. Due to the needs of the production unit, it is common for historical figures to be transformed or merged in TV dramas.
"Pleiades of the Sky" is a Qing Dynasty court drama jointly produced by Japan's NHK TV station and China's Hualu Baina. Directed by Wang Jun, starring Yuko Tanaka, Yu Shaoqun, Zhou Yiwei, Xu Baihui, Yin Tao, Zhang Bo and others.
The play is based on the period from the Sino-Japanese War of 1898 to 1898. It tells the story of Chun'er, a poor boy who makes a living by picking up frozen cow dung and horse dung on the street. He meets the astrologer Granny Bai. Granny Bai said that he was born from the Pleiades star in the sky, and his destiny was the same as that of Qianlong and Qin Shihuang. In the future, he would "take all the treasures in China into his pocket."
Her prophecy supported the miserable life of Chun'er. When his brother died of hunger, he castrated himself and entered the palace. After some struggle and hard work, he became a popular figure next to the Empress Dowager Cixi and succeeded her. Li Lianying's position, Granny Bai's words seemed to come true, but he was inadvertently involved in the political whirlpool.
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Weng Tonghe (1830-1904), courtesy name Shuping, nickname Songchan, aliases Junzhai, Pingsheng, Pinglu Jushi, Bingmei Jushi, etc. Tianfangxianren, a layman named Ping'an in the late 1990s, was born in Changshu, Jiangsu Province. He is a famous politician and calligraphy artist in modern Chinese history. The third son of Weng Xincun, a scholar of Tirenge University, was the champion in the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856). He successively served as Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Prime Minister's Minister of International Affairs. He served as the imperial advisor of Tongzhi and Guangxu dynasties of the Qing Dynasty. After his death, he was given the posthumous title Wengong.
Weng Tonghe was a poet and painter, especially famous for his calligraphy. He studied Ou and Chu when he was young, and Dong Qichang and Mi Fu at the beginning. After middle age, he pursued Yan Zhenqing from Qian Feng, and was not bound by the word Yan. The body is wide and open, the strokes are strong and powerful, the style is bold and vigorous, simple, majestic and graceful. He is the author of "The Diary of Wengwen Gonggong" and "Pinglu Poetry Manuscript".
Emperor Master in Two Dynasties
In the first year of Guangxu (1875), he served as the Right Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.
In April of the second year of Guangxu (1876), the emperor devoted himself to studying in Yuqing Palace and ordered Xia Tongshan to teach Emperor Guangxu, but he refused to resign. Immediately he was moved to the Ministry of Household Affairs, where he served as a lecturer at the Jingyan Festival and the censor of Zuodu, the Procuratorate of the Jin Dynasty. Moved to the Ministry of Punishment and transferred to the Ministry of Work.
In the fifth year of Guangxu's reign (1879), Du Ruilian, the governor of Yunnan, sent Cui Zunyi and Pan Yingzhang to Beijing with a huge sum of money to resolve the issue of Yunnan's reimbursement of French military expenses. After arriving in Beijing, Cui and Pan moved around in the Military Aircraft Department and the Ministry of Household Affairs. Finally, they paid 80,000 taels in bribes to the Ministers of Military Aircraft Zhou Ruiqing, Wang Wenshao, Jing Lian, and the clerks and clerks of the Ministry of Household Affairs to settle the reimbursement.
In the sixth year of Guangxu (1880), the court officials were fighting for a long time to make an agreement with Russia. Yizhi sent Prince Dun, Prince Chun, Tonghe and Pan Zuyin to read the telegrams in the South Study every day and prepare the telegrams for submission. It will continue until the Russian agreement is changed.
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