What is the story of "seeking and saving the orphans" in history?

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period in China, Jin Linggong was dissolute and heartless, and was bewitched by the treacherous court official Tu'an Gu (then the great general of the State of Jin), killing people and killing innocent people. Prime Minister Zhao Dun is not afraid of violence and is outspoken. Instead of listening, Duke Ling of Jin listened to the treacherous court official Tu'an Gu's idea and asked him to use a trained hound to identify the loyalty of the minister.

As a result, driven by Tu'an Gu, he was recognized as a traitor by hunting dogs, so he ordered the Zhao family to be beheaded. Princess Zhuang Ji, the wife of Zhao Dun's son Zhao Shuo and the sister of Jin Linggong, was sent back to the palace to avoid death because she was a royal relative and pregnant. Soon, Princess Zhuang Ji gave birth to a son named Wu Zhao.

After learning this letter, Tu'an Gu ordered people to go to the princess's palace to find the whereabouts of the baby, which is called "finding orphans".

In order to save Zhao's children and grandchildren and avenge Zhao's family, the princess colluded with folk doctors, posted a yellow list on the pretext that the princess was ill, and recruited talents to treat the princess. Cheng Ying took the opportunity to tear up the list and take the opportunity to take the baby out of the palace and raise it at home in order to avenge the Zhao family in the future.

The princess only said that she gave birth to a baby girl, died ashore and was thrown into the moat. So, people in Tu'an Gu searched the palace and found nothing. However, Tu'an Gu is not stupid. When he learned that the samurai who went to the palace to look for the baby didn't find the baby, he had an extremely vicious idea.

That is, within three days, someone will hand over the baby poop, otherwise, the baby born to Princess Jin will be killed at the same time in the same year, the same month and the same day. In order to live up to the princess's great trust, Cheng Ying and his good friend Gongsun Chujiu came up with a bold plan. Cheng Ying exchanged his son with the baby, and Gongsun Chujiu hid Cheng Ying's son in the mountains.

Then, Cheng Ying went to Tu'an Gu to snitch. He said that Gongsun hid the baby and didn't report it, so he took people to search the baby at Gongsun's residence and executed both Gongsun and the baby. This is the so-called "saving the orphans". Then, in order to raise orphans, Cheng Ying asked them to recognize Tu'an Gu as their adoptive father.

Since then, Cheng Ying has put up with hardships in Jia's house in Tu 'an, bearing the stigma of buying friends and seeking glory, endured humiliation for fifteen years, raised an orphan Wu Zhao, and finally, with the help of Minister Jiang Wei, killed Tu'an Gu and avenged the Zhao family's blood. It is the whole historical process of "seeking and saving orphans".

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Searching for and rescuing orphans, also known as Eight Diagrams, is a Peking Opera repertoire. Old traditional drama. The Orphan of Zhao is adapted from China's classical drama The Orphan of Zhao. It tells the story that doctors in the Jin Dynasty raised the orphan of Zhao and avenged Zhao after he was killed by traitors in the Spring and Autumn Period.

After liberation, famous Peking Opera performers Tan, Ma and Qiu adapted it on the basis of searching for loneliness and saving it, and created a famous new historical drama "The Orphan of Zhao". Although the two plays have different names, they are both the same thing.

When Sima Qian, who traveled to famous mountains and rivers and explored historical anecdotes, came to the seat of the old capital of Jin State, the true history of The Orphan of Zhao had been submerged by vivid characters such as Gong Sun and others.

Sima Qian is an emotional and excitable author, so the final outcome is that he wrote this shocking but purely fictional story into Zhao Shijia in the famous Historical Records.

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