Why did Shi Naian write Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian so badly?

Since the real Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian made an enviable marriage, why did Shi Naian write them so badly? How did the folk rumors that vilify the two people come from? According to Wu Dalang's 24th Sun Fu and other martial artists, this is directly related to a classmate in Wu Dalang. It is said that Wu Dalang was poor when he was a child, and this old friend of Wang Xing once helped him. Later, Wu Dalang became an official in Jinshi, and his family was getting better and better, but the Wangs declined. So, this classmate went to Wu Dalang, hoping that Wu Dalang could get him a tight job. Wu Dalang was very enthusiastic about his classmates, but said nothing about finding a job. My classmates stayed in Wu Dalang's house for less than half a year, but when they saw that there was no hope of finding a job, they thought Wu Dalang was an ungrateful villain. In a rage, they left without saying goodbye.

On the way home, the students became more and more angry when they remembered it, so they wrote many satirical and abusive words about Wu Dalang, posted them all the way home, and rapped along the way, which made many people misunderstand Wu Dalang. At the same time, a schoolyard bullies who had been punished by Wu Dalang heard the rumor of insulting Wu Dalang, and then embellished it, ruining Wu Dalang's image, and this schoolyard bullies is Ximen Qing. However, as soon as my classmates came home, they regretted it immediately. It turned out that Wu Dalang had already sent money to the Wangs, built a house for him and planted fields. The classmate realized that he had misjudged the good man and hurried back to uncover the note he posted, but it was too late and those stories had spread. In addition, some scholars always make use of the topic to spread the stories they heard after artistic processing, which makes Wu Dalang's stories more and more absurd.

When Shi Naian was writing Water Margin, he collected all kinds of interesting stories, including the hearsay stories of Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian. After sorting and processing, Shi Naian wrote these stories into his novels. With the great success of the novel, the misinformation of Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian spread further and further, leaving a huge grievance.

It is a pity that Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian, a good official and a gentle and virtuous wife, have been despised and reviled for hundreds of years because of gossip. Because the image of Mr. and Mrs. Wu Dalang in Water Margin deeply hurt the descendants of the Wu family, in order to express the gratitude of the Shi family, the later painter Shi went to the Wu family to apologize and painted 16 pictures with poems, telling the world the real life of Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian. Among them, he wrote a poem for The Portrait of Wu Dalang, in which he wrote: "Wu Pan made up Shi Naian in the water margin, which was an injustice. For hundreds of years, Shi Jia's articles and paintings have been praised by people. The karma of the past has finally been reported today and is reshaping the exhibition world. Wu Jia Ancestral Temple ruled the case, and Shi Jia owed Shi Jia money.

At this point, the actions of stone descendants have proved the innocence of Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian to the world. But because the Water Margin is so popular, I'm afraid this misunderstanding will continue to spread, and many people still don't know the truth.