Wu Dalang in the Water Margin has no real historical prototype, is a fictional character. Wudalang, the eldest of the Wu family, called Wudalang, Hebei Qinghe County people. His parents died when he was a child, and he raised his brother Wu Song with great hardship. He sold cooking cakes as a business and married his wife, Pan's Jinlian.

Shi Nai-an is a new character based on the story of Wu Sung, the walker and Wu Sung's fight against the tiger, which is a derivative of the story depicted in the Yuan Dynasty's unnamed book "The Remains of the Great Song Dynasty's Xuanhe," as well as the Yuan Dynasty's Gong Kai's "Praise for the Thirty-Six People of Song Jiang" (both of which are considered to be prototypes or blueprints for the Water Margin). (According to the records of "General Records of Zhejiang Province", Wu Sung is a vagabond who often sells his art around the Yongjinmen area, and he has no older brother.)

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It is worth mentioning that Wu Shik, the historical magistrate of Yanggu County during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty (1403 A.D.-1424 A.D.), is not likely to have been the prototype of Wu Dalang written by Shi Nai-an, who died of illness in the third year of the Hongwu period (1370 A.D.).

Character Experience

Raised by his parents since he was a child, Wu Song is a kind-hearted, practical and hard-working man who loves his brothers, and is simple and has some basic virtues of a Chinese farmer, but his defects are also very obvious, and his character is a bit cowardly. He has no skills and can only sell cookies to make a living, and his family is poor. But with the money he earned from selling cookies, he rented a small wooden house.

Later, he was unintentionally married to a beautiful wife, Pan Jinlian, who was introduced to Simon Qing by his wife. Pan Jinlian plotted with Simon Qing to kill Wu Dailang, in order to be with Simon Qing, and poisoned Dailang to death by adding arsenic to Dailang's medication when he was seriously ill. Afterwards, Wu Song came back to hear the news of his brother's death, and Wu Song, who has always regarded his elder brother as his father, was filled with grief and indignation, and determined to find out the truth to clear the air for his brother.

However, the government officials intended to shield Simon Qing, Wu Song called the neighbors, Pan Jinlian and Wang Bao because of fear of Wu Song will be a confession, Wu Song will be the adulteress Pan Jinlian pressed to the brother's spirit of the knife cut off the head of Pan Jinlian, and to the lion building fight to kill Simon Qing, and finally Simon Qing alive in the lion downstairs, and Pan Jinlian and Simon Qing's head to worship the Wu Dalang.

The above reference? Baidu Encyclopedia-Wudalang