The story of the "Taoyuan Three Knots of Righteousness", I think everyone has heard, the Yellow Turban Army launched an uprising in 184, the number of participants reached one million, swept through a number of counties, declaring that the originally powerful Eastern Han Dynasty officially entered the last year, in this case, three young people with the ambition to serve the country, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, gathered together under the official government's conquest of the Yellow Turban.
These three people saw each other as they were, and after a casual conversation for two sentences, they found that everyone had the ambition to serve the country, which can be described as a real kindred spirit, but there were not too many specific ideas at the moment, and they did not really do anything, so they agreed to marry as brothers, and in the future, they would be blessed to enjoy the same difficulties and contribute their strength to the prosperity and strength of the country.
At that time, Liu Bei was just a small trader selling straw shoes, Guan Yu was just a trader who pushed a cart to sell dates, the economic situation of the family was very embarrassing, only Zhang Fei was a local family, and there was a big peach orchard in the family, so the three of them went to Zhang Fei's peach orchard, killed pigs and slaughtered cattle to worship heaven and earth, and each of them said his oath, Zhang Fei's famous sentence "I am the same" is from here.
After formally becoming brothers, the three of them were led by the eldest brother Liu Bei to join the army, in the process of suppressing the Yellow Turban Army, they repeatedly established great merits, and as soon as they appeared, they killed the Yellow Turban general Cheng Pu, so they became officials, and later Liu Bei became a prince of the party, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also became famous generals in the world by virtue of their achievements on the battlefield, and were recognized as "having the courage of ten thousand men".
The reason why Guan Yu Zhang Fei can have such a super martial art is that on the one hand, they study and practice hard in their daily lives, on the other hand, it is also closely related to their height. There is a saying in martial arts that "one inch long, one inch strong", when fighting on the battlefield, the higher the height of the person, the longer the length of the arm, the more advantages are occupied, and the greater the space for martial arts to play.
Especially they were originally very tall, and with such long weapons as the Green Dragon Crescent Knife and the Zhangba Snake Spear in their hands, ordinary creeps could not be approached at all, and naturally they also showed the effect of "the courage of all men and women", it can be said that Liu Guanzhang's life's work is closely related to their height, so how tall are they?
According to historical records, Liu Bei is seven feet and five inches long, Zhang Fei is eight feet long, and Guan Yu is nine feet long, if we let our modern one foot be 33.33 centimeters of weights and measures to calculate, then all three of them are more than 2 meters tall, is it that we modern people have degenerated? In fact, of course, this is not the case, but the ancient unit of length is different from today's existence.
In an ancient tomb in Luoyang, a Han Dynasty "ruler" was unearthed, according to the scale and length of this ruler, one foot in the Han Dynasty is about equal to the current 23.3 centimeters, which translates to that, Liu Bei's height is 172.8 centimeters, Zhang Fei's height is 184.32 centimeters, and Guan Yu's height is 207.36 centimeters, is it higher than you think?
Even in modern times, such a height can already be regarded as tall, especially Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, which are even more like big men, plus their strength is very large and proficient in martial arts skills, it is no wonder that they can sweep invincible on the battlefield.