Zhao Zilong, the "top stream" of the Three Kingdoms: Is his high popularity because of his high appearance?

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To be fair, Zhao Yun Zhao Zilong has won the affirmation and admiration of Chen Shou and Pei Songzhi from the historical image. Because he was trapped by the Shu Han Dynasty without a history official, coupled with Chen Shou's meticulous review of materials, concise writing, and Cao Wei as the orthodoxy, he was quite stingy with pen and ink for Shu Han characters, and the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms Cao Wei had thirty volumes, and Shu Han only had fifteen volumes. Zhao Yun's biography is actually less than 300 words, and those Xuanhe battle achievements that we are familiar with, except for the Savior of Nagasaka, basically do not appear in this biography. From the five people, after Liu Bei ascended to the throne of Hanzhong, he was a former general, guan Yu was a former general, a false festival; Zhang Fei was a right general, a false festival; Ma Chao was a left general, a false festival; and Huang Zhong was a rear general. The generals before and after were heavy generals in the Eastern Han Dynasty, belonging to the sequence of high-ranking military generals, while At that time, Zhao Yun was only a general of the Yi Army, and belonged to the second-class miscellaneous generals, not to mention the political status and honors such as Guan Yu Fake Festival, Zhang Fei, and Ma Chao False Festival. (The premise of this statement is that the Liu Bei clique strictly implemented the military attaché system at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but in fact, according to the available data, before Liu Chan ascended the throne, the military attaché system of the Liu Bei clique was relatively chaotic))

Therefore, Chen Shou passed on Zhao Yun and Guan Yu Zhang Feima Chao Huang Zhong together, and listed them as the first echelon of Shu Han martial generals, which was itself an affirmation and admiration for Zhao Yun. This is likely to be that Chen Shou came into contact with a large number of original historical materials about Zhao Yun's exploits when compiling the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, but because of the limitation of space and the emphasis on Cao Wei's legitimacy, he had to make large-scale deletions, and could only confirm Zhao Yun's merits and status by passing it on with the other four people, and give further affirmation in the post-biography commentary. It can be said that Chen Shou determined the historical image of one of Zhao Yun's "Five Tiger Generals", but Zhao Yun ranked fifth.

When it came to literary and artistic works, Zhao Yun's literary image began to gradually improve. In various commentaries and miscellaneous dramas, Zhao Yun's ranking either surpassed Ma Chao or surpassed Huang Zhong, and began to rank fourth in the "Five Tiger Generals". In the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhao Yun was officially established as the third "Five Tiger Generals", and "Guan Zhang Zhao Ma Huang" became the most comfortable ranking for the Chinese people to read.

Zhao Yun riding a horse, modern, Li Yunzhong, Chinese painting

As for the folk image of Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong, in addition to Guan Yu, who was set as a religious deity by successive feudal rulers, his identity and influence have long surpassed Zhang, Ma and Huang. Even in the evaluation of force, there are folk sayings of "one Lü two Zhao three Dianwei, four passes, five horses, six Zhang Fei, seven yellows, eight Xu, nine Jiang Wei", similar to "one Lü two Zhao Three Dianwei, four passes, five horses and six Zhang Fei, Huang Xusun Tai two Xiahou, two Xu Panggan Zhou Wei"... No matter what kind of order, Zhao Yun is below one person and above everyone, and the "Five Tiger Generals" are the highest. Considering Lü Bu's poor character and anxious IQ, in the folk evaluation, it is not too much to say that Zhao Yun is the first military general of the Three Kingdoms.

He is loyal and brave, two saviors; white horse spear, excellent martial arts, Xiao Yong is good at war, "that gun is full of body, like dancing pear blossoms; all over the body, like Drifting Snow... Everywhere he went, he saw the four-character banner of 'Zhao Yun of Changshan', who once knew his brave men in Changsaka, and told each other that they all fled"; resourceful, one with courage, laid down an empty camp plan next to the Han River, and defeated the Cao army with a widow; there were ideals and ambitions, high morality, not greedy for money, not lustful, "from where the benevolent government is, to solve the people's upside down", advised Liu Bei chengdu to seal rewards, refused Zhao Fan's temptation to offer the national color widow; the strict management of the army, the defeat of the street pavilion, "only Zilong did not fold one man and one horse"; there was a strategic vision, there was the style of a national soldier, In the face of Liu Bei's anger, he advised not to march on Sun Wu.

It can be said that in the folk image, Zhao Yun has become the most perfect warrior in the Three Kingdoms era, and in the entire ancient history of China, it is also the existence of the flock. In contemporary times, Zhao Yun's image can be said to have reached its peak. Whether it is literary works, film and television dramas, or game animations, Zhao Zilong of Changshan can be described as a top "traffic star" and the most popular martial artist of the Three Kingdoms (for female readers or fans, there is not even one).