This is definitely a story that has never happened in history, and it is completely a classic bridge section created by Mr. Luo Guanzhong, the author of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
In previous articles, Leopard Eye has always briefly brushed this story over on the grounds of fiction, but today Leopard Eye specifically talks about this story, and Leopard Eye believes that this is a classic story and very artistic.
To understand history, of course, it is based on historical facts, but as a literary work, it is still necessary to appreciate its artistic effect.
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Detective Ku came to report: "Hua Xiong led the iron horse down the pass, and used a long pole to carry Sun Taishou ChiYuan to the front of the village to scold and fight." Shao Yue: "Who dares to fight?" Yuan Shu turned out behind The Xiao general Yu Shiyue: "The young general is willing to go." Shao Xi, then Yu waded out of the horse. The immediate report came: "Yu Shi and Hua Xiong were at odds with each other and were beheaded by Hua Xiong." The crowd was horrified. Taishou Han Fu said, "I have General Pan Feng, but I can behead Huaxiong." Shao urgently ordered to fight. Pan Feng mounted his horse with a large axe in his hand. When he didn't go much, Pegasus came to report: "Pan Feng has been beheaded by HuaXiong again." Everyone is lost. Shao Yue: "Unfortunately, my general Yan Liang and Wen Ugly have not arrived!" If one person is here, why be afraid of Huaxiong!" Before he could finish speaking, the next person at the next level shouted out: "The young general is willing to behead Hua Xiong and dedicate it to the tent!" When everyone saw it, they saw that his body was nine feet long, his hair was two feet long, his eyes were phoenix-eyed, his eyebrows were lying on his eyebrows, his face was like a heavy jujube, and his voice was like a giant bell, standing in front of the tent. Shao asked who it was. Gongsun Zan said, "This Liu Xuande's brother Guan Yuye." Shao asked what his current position was. "Follow Liu Xuande as an archer." Yuan Shu shouted, "Ru deceived all the princes without a great general?" Measure an archer, ann dare to talk nonsense! Fight with me!" Cao Cao stopped urgently: "The highway is angry. If he speaks loudly, he will have courage; If the horse is not victorious, it is not too late to be responsible. Yuan Shao said, "If an archer goes into battle, he will be laughed at by Hua Xiong." Cao Yue: "This person has a good appearance, Hua Xiong An knows that he is an archer?" Guan Gong said, "If you can't win, please behead someone." He had a glass of hot wine and drank with Guan Gong. Guan Gong said: "If you pour the wine, you will come when you go." Get out of the tent and pick up the knife and fly on the horse. The princes heard the drums outside the Guanwai beating loudly, and shouted loudly, like the heavens collapsing on the earth, and the mountains shook the mountains, and everyone was frightened. Just as he was about to listen, the bell rang, the horse came to the Chinese army, and the head of the cloud chief Ti Huaxiong was thrown to the ground. Its wine is still warm. Later generations have a poem to praise: Wei Zhen Qiankun's first skill, the Yuanmen painting drum bang. Yun Chang stopped The valiant Shi was heroic, and the wine was still warm when Hua Xiong was chopped.
The Eighteenth Route princes rebelled against Dong Zhuo, and before the Pass of Fenshui, Dong Zhuo's general Hua Xiong (華雄) flaunted his might, and successively beheaded Bao Zhong, the brother of Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, defeated Sun Jian, the Taishou of Changsha, and beheaded his subordinate general Zu Mao, causing a great shock to the Kwantung Coalition Army.
Just when Yuan Shao, the leader of the coalition alliance, was at a loss, he looked around and found three big men standing behind Gongsun Zhan of Beiping, and when he learned the identities of Liu Guanzhang's three brothers, he did not take it seriously, but only arranged a seat for Liu Bei at the end, and did not expect them to do anything.
At this time, Guan Qian Huaxiong carried the turban of Taishou Sun Jian to fight, and the general Yuan Shubu sent Yu Shu into battle and was immediately beheaded. Jizhou Taishou Han Fu ordered the general Pan Feng to fight, and was immediately beheaded.
Seeing that the scene was so embarrassing, Yuan Shao said helplessly: "Unfortunately, my generals Yan Liang and Wen Ugly did not come." ”
At this moment, Guan Yu stepped forward and took the initiative to ask for battle. However, Yuan Shao was very contemptuous because Guan Yu had no status in the jianghu. Fortunately, Cao Cao's "hero does not ask about provenance", gave Guan Yu a chance to appear, and drank a cup of hot wine for Guan Gong.
Guan Gong only said one sentence: "Pour the wine and pour it, and come when you go." After that, Guan Yu raised his sword and mounted his horse, and the princes only listened to the drums and did not understand what was going on, when they saw that Guan Yu had already taken Hua Xiong's head and threw it on the ground.
At this time, its wine is still warm. That is, the Zhuangxing wine that Cao Cao gave to Guan Yu was still hot.
This is the story of "warm wine chopping Huaxiong".
Luo Guanzhong not only shaped this story, but also had a word for it, saying that posterity had poetry as evidence:
This is Luo Guanzhong's deception.
On closer inspection, there are several plots worth playing:
First, Yuan Shao said that my generals Yan Liang and Wen Ugly had not come, and as long as one of them came, it would not be Hua Xiong's turn to be arrogant.
So, such a big thing as the crusade against Dong Zhuo, as an ally lord, you don't bring your right-hand men with you, are you here to travel for free?
There is no historical evidence to support whether Yan Liang and Wen Ugly followed Yuan Shao to participate in the campaign against Dong Zhuo, but Yuan Shao's words really showed the mentality of the Eighteenth Route Princes, who wanted to preserve their strength and did not intend to truly eliminate thieves.
Second, WenJiu's beheading of Huaxiong is just a prelude to Guan Yu's killing of Yan Liang and Wen Ugly, and it is to pave the way for Guan Yu to gain a foothold in the jianghu.
The three brothers of Liu Guanzhang are not like the princes of the Eighteenth Road, and they need to preserve their strength, on the contrary, they need the opportunity to gain a place in the jianghu.
In terms of strength, since Guan Yu was able to kill Yan Liang in a second, and Yan Liang was considered by Yuan Shao to be able to resist Huaxiong, this was enough to show that Guan Yu's "warm wine and Huaxiong" was not just imaginary, but completely possible.
Third, in real history, Guan Yu, as the "ten thousand enemies" of the "mighty earthquake Huaxia" in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, had no record of being able to do so except for the highlight moment of killing Yan Liang.
What's more, Guan Yu's cutting of Yan Liang was completed with the cooperation of Cao Cao's team, which was not conducive to Luo Guanzhong's establishment of the image of Liu Bei Group.
The Battle of Xiangfan, which ended with the loss of Jingzhou, was really unable to show the positive image of Guan Gong. Even if Luo Guanzhong's brilliant pen is full of flowers, the reader still cannot see the Battle of Xiangfan as Guan Yu's victory.
Fourth, Guan Gong was revered by later generations as "Guan Sheng the Great", a jianghu status that had been established as early as before Luo Guanzhong wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.
If you tell the truth, without some fictional plot, Guan Gong's image in the novel will not be full but very thin, which is not good for the influence of the novel.
Luo Guanzhong cleverly shaped Guan Yu's plump artistic image, which undoubtedly played a good publicity effect on his novel.
This is why "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has become a classic.
For this story, Leopard's eye focuses on the word "warm wine" for two reasons:
First, Guan Yu beheaded Hua Xiong, whose wine was still warm. This shows that Guan Yu is clean and crisp in this battle, and very artistically expresses Guan Yu's explosive combat effectiveness.
Second, when the ancients drank wine, they had to "boil wine" or "warm wine", and "boiling wine on heroes" is an example.
Because drinking wine in this way not only tastes good, but also does not hurt the spleen and stomach, which is beneficial to good health.
This is a rare little common sense of life, and the warm wine is sweet and delicious to drink, so that the human body feels the taste of "warm wine pouring dry intestines, and small poems".
Luo Guanzhong described the battle with "warm wine and chopping Huaxiong", interpreting the bloody battlefield fight into a very warm scene, giving the reader a very pleasant sensory enjoyment, just like "talking and laughing between the trees and ashes".
For a cruel battle scene, the general writing method is always to capitalize the situation of the two sides fighting, such as the bridge section of the Three British Battle Lü bu, and the first battle is tens of hundreds of rounds.
However, here, Luo Guanzhong does not directly describe the battle scene, only hears the drums, killing sounds, and shouts, so that the reader can experience the fierceness of the fight for himself.
Although Luo Guanzhong was lightly recounting this process, in the moment when the bell rang and the horse arrived at the Chinese army, Guan Yu saw guan Yu's heroic feat of "throwing Huaxiong's head on the ground".
Virtual and real, virtual in reality, real in reality, which shows Luo Guanzhong's superb artistic technique.
Although the storyline of "Chopping Huaxiong" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is fictional, the author uses this to highlight Guan Yu's "divine speed" fighting style, and uses the artistic technique of combining virtual and real to create a characteristic situation and atmosphere, so that the image of Guan Yu, the central character of the novel, has been well set off, which can be described as unique ingenuity.
Leopard Eye believes that reading novels is different from reading history books, and it is not necessary to consider the authenticity of the story, but to appreciate the author's superb artistic skills.
If there were no classic stories created by Luo Guanzhong, such as "Wenjiu Chopping Huaxiong", "Riding Alone in a Thousand Miles, Cutting Six Generals through Five Levels", "Borrowing the East Wind", and "Empty City Plan", then the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" would certainly be much inferior, and it would not have become a classic work passed down to future generations.
Isn't that a great pity?
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