There are many intersections between "Eternal Dragon Slayer" and history, and countless celebrities appeared in this troubled time in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.
Zoroastrianism, Yuan Zhang, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Tanghe, Deng Yu, Huayun and other founding fathers and Han and other rebel leaders are all old acquaintances or subordinates of Zhang Wuji, but these people are too famous to play freely, so they have not arranged any martial arts scenes.
Chen Youliang's situation is similar, but when the story in the novel happens, he is still young, so he can arrange some plots such as usurping the Beggars' Sect and taking Shaolin hostages, and then flee after failure, which is consistent with the official history.
Wu Sanren's kung fu is much better, and four of them are also real people found in history books:
Peng Yingyu is the most famous. He first led his apprentice Zhou to revolt (Chang Yuchun was Zhou's subordinate when he first made his debut). After the failure, he joined forces with Xu Shouhui and others to launch an uprising and establish political power. Unfortunately, he was defeated and died in the future.
Zhong Zhang, a Taoist priest with iron crown, once assisted Zhu Yuanzhang in breaking Chen Youliang. It is said that he is proficient in Yi-ology and can calculate the fate of Daming Jiangshan. Then I retired and disappeared;
Zhou Dian people, as the name implies, are crazy, bald and eccentric. But history shows that he made magical predictions for Zhu Yuanzhang many times, helped him achieve fame and fortune, and then left without saying goodbye. Zhu Yuanzhang misses this fortuneteller very much. In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, he personally wrote "The Fairy Biography of Zhou Dian" to commemorate him. (The deeds of Zhong Zhang and Zhou Dian are recorded in Biography of Ji Fang in Ming Dynasty, and their status even precedes that of Zhang Sanfeng. )
Leng Qian was a famous Taoist priest at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, who was good at keeping in good health, temperament, painting and calligraphy. His deeds are recorded in many books, with different emphases, which shows that this man is knowledgeable. The most authoritative one is Yue Ji in Ming Dynasty, which records that he composed music for the imperial court, which is probably equivalent to being a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music today. Besides, his nickname is Longyangzi, which makes the brotherhood of the five people very suspicious?
Although it is hard to say that the cloth-bag monk is fictional, there is also a prototype, that is, the cloth-bag monk of the Five Dynasties agrees with this. He is also a crazy traveling monk, grinning all day, bared his chest and carrying a big cloth bag. After his death, he was regarded as the incarnation of Maitreya. Nowadays, the Maitreya Buddha in the temple is modeled after a cloth bag monk.
The life story of the Seven Heroes of Wudang is unknown, and only their names are circulated. Except for "Six Xia" Yin changed to "Yin Liting", the other six people all used their original names. Among them, only Zhang Songxi can be found in ancient books: he was a famous family boxer in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, claiming that his boxing was inherited from Zhang Sanfeng, and this Zhang Sanfeng is said to be from Huizong period of Northern Song Dynasty? Jin Yong directly pulled him forward for more than one hundred years and became Zhang Sanfeng's four disciples.
The heroine Zhao Min, a lovely, intelligent and beautiful princess, is fictional. Chahan has no daughter, but Wang Baobao has a biological sister, and she didn't write her name in the history books. Wang's sister was later forcibly betrothed by Zhu Yuanzhang to his son, Qin Wangzhu, probably to show kindness. But Wang Baobao didn't die. After Zhu _ died, maybe the court thought Wang was useless, or maybe she was disheartened and died with her husband. The tragic ending of Zhao Min's prototype is very sad.