Who is the prototype of Yu Zhanao?

Yu Zhanao is the hero of Mo Yan's novel Red Sorghum Family and its derivative works. Yu Zhanao is both a bandit leader and an anti-Japanese hero. He is a character with unique personality and national spirit, a tough guy.

There is a rough, violent and primitive sense of justice and passion for life in character. Yu Zhanao is a typical figure who combines goodness, evil, beauty and ugliness. His image is a successful display of the Chinese national spirit in the history of contemporary literature.

Yu Zhanao has a dynamic beauty. What people listen to is the call of destroyed and repressed human nature, the groan of the struggle between spirit and flesh, and the warning of the accumulation of national spirit worth remembering and remembering.

A philosophy about human value, national spirit, ethics, historical process and the essence of the whole human life that can only be realized when growing up in red sorghum land.

Introduction of character prototype:

The prototype of "My Grandpa" Yu Zhanao in the novel is Cao Keming, a famous minister in Jiaoxian (now Jiaozhou), Gaomi, Pingdu, Changle, Anqiu and Zhucheng.

Cao Keming is from Xixiang, Gaomi. According to Gaomi County Records, at the beginning of the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China (1938), in order to facilitate the Japanese garrison in Gao County and Pingdu County to contact and assist in defense, the Japanese army requisitioned more than 400,000 civilian workers in Gaomi, Pingdu and Gao County to build Gaoping Highway. The road repair destroyed countless crops along the way, and the mules and horses in the villages on both sides of the road were also washed away by the devils.

After the road was repaired, the Japanese army patrolled by car every day. Trees, cattle, sheep and even pedestrians on the roadside have become the targets of their marksmanship, and innocent villagers often die under their guns. The evil deeds of the Japanese army aroused the hatred of the local people, and Cao Keming decided to ambush on the Jiaoping Highway to teach these vicious soldiers a lesson.

According to the article "Recalling the Sunjiakou Ambush" in the fifth volume of Selected Materials of Gaomi Literature and History, eight Japanese cars entered the ambush circle in Cao Keming on the morning of April 1938 and 16. At the command, the guerrillas condescended and bullets were fired. The Japanese army hurriedly hid under the car to resist. Because the guerrillas were just formed, the soldiers still lacked combat experience, and several people were shot.

In desperation, an experienced old team member led 10 people, each holding a bundle of lit sorghum stalks, desperately igniting the car. Smoke and torches drove the devil out of the car. After a fierce battle, all the soldiers were killed except one ghost soldier who escaped from the net in the sorghum straw by the roadside. These records are the prototype of the relevant plots of Red Sorghum Family.