When it comes to Wu Sheng, many people must have opened their mouths and said, "I know, it is Guan Yu Guan Yun Chang Guan Second Master is also." However, in fact, in the thousands of years of Chinese history, there have been three "martial saints".
During the Three Kingdoms period, after Guan Yu's death, he was gradually deified and was revered by the people as "Guan Gong", also known as the Duke of Mei Hair. The Ming Dynasty began to be called "Guan Sheng Emperor Jun", and since then it has become an officially recognized "Martial Sage", and the Qing Dynasty continued the tradition of the Ming Dynasty and still honored Guan Yu as a Martial Sage.
Judging from the time, the first is Jiang Shangjiang Taigong, the second is Yue FeiYue Wumu, and the third is the now well-known Guan Yu Guan Second Master. Whether it is influence, merit and national righteousness, Guan Yu is not as good as the previous two, but why he laughs at the end, this has a lot to do with packaging.
Of course, it was not guan yu who carefully packaged himself, but the emperors of the later Ming and Qing dynasties.
In the last year of the Shang Dynasty, the western princes Zhou, dissatisfied with Emperor Xing's many reforms and rule, decided to unite with other princes to replace them. In this process, Jiang Ziya's credit is second to none.
The old man who used to fish in Weishui will usher in his life like a hanging.
He was the supreme military commander of the Xingzhou Dynasty, he was the enlightened monarch of the State of Qi, and he was a loyal vassal of the Four Kings. Even strategists are also political and military experts, and the book "Liutao" left behind has a profound impact on future generations.
After a wave of ideas of a hundred schools of thought, the Han and Tang dynasties still respected him very much, so that at the peak of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Ming Emperor built a martial temple for him to enshrine, enjoy the incense of later generations, and the name of the martial saint was also expected by everyone.
Yue Fei's life is sad and lamentable at the same time, sadly he lived under the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Shuo, who only wanted to enjoy comfort, and at the same time, he was glad that it was this emperor who gave him a stage to show his martial arts.
Faced with the pain of the emperor who broke the country and kidnapped the emperor, he held the jingo in his hand, looked up at the sky and sighed, "Zhuangzhi is hungry for meat, laughing and talking about thirst for the blood of the Xiongnu." Wait to start from the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and face the sky. "Ambition. However, they had to face the "warm wind smoked tourists drunk, straight to Hangzhou as a state." "The Emperor will be phased.
Yue Fei's whole life was anti-Jin, "welcoming back the Second Saint, returning to the old capital" was his ideal. Under his leadership, the Yue family army can be described as invincible and invincible. Let the indispensable Jin people sigh "Shake the mountain is easy to shake the Yue family's military difficulties." ”
And his army was strictly disciplined, proposing, "Freeze to death without demolishing houses, and starve to death to hunt down and plunder." slogan. It was this sentence that raised his military thinking to an unprecedented height.
During the Yuan Dynasty, opera gradually became popular, and many operas emerged everywhere, because opera always needed story adaptation, so the chaotic times of the Three Kingdoms, Sui and Tang Dynasties became the object of key adaptation. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, novels began to catch fire, and a large number of historical themes emerged, and combined with opera, they slowly formed long novel works such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", and "Water Margin". At this time, Guan Yu reappeared in the public's vision under the rendering of the novel as a loyal and righteous man.
During the Ming Dynasty, Yue Fei was posthumously named Yue Sheng Emperor and Guan Yu the Guan Sheng Emperor. For a time, there were various Guandi Temples and Yuewang Temples everywhere, and at the same time, two "martial saints" appeared in the folk. But even so, Yue Fei was still able to juxtaposed with Guan Yu. Until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Yue Fei was completely abandoned, and the title of Martial Saint fell to Guan Yu from then on.
Guan Yu's record was not particularly good, and his military influence was not particularly prominent, but he caught up with the good times. In addition, Guan Yu walked the world with loyalty and righteousness all his life, and the ruler carefully packaged Guan Yu for the sake of better fools, so that everyone could admire and learn from his loyal and patriotic spirit, so as to better maintain his rule.
Although Guan Yu's influence in terms of military, war, and influence on future generations seemed to be far less than that of the previous two, slowly with the passage of time, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, there was no leader to redefine the Martial Temple. Guan Yu has been enshrined for hundreds of years, and has also been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so "Martial Saint" has gradually become his own unique title.