"Break the loyal name of the ancient autumn, and the three divisions are based on a hundred years of rest." In the long river of history, when it comes to martial saints, everyone will think of Guan Erye, who not only bravely champions the three armies, is superior in martial arts, but also has a sincere loyalty, even if he was once in Cao Ying, he will eventually return to Liu Bei's side all the way through Guan. However, in history, there were two martial saints, Jiang Ziya and Yue Fei, so why was Guan Yu handed down to future generations and became the only martial saint? Next, let Xiaobian reveal the secret for you:
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From ancient times to the present, China has produced three "martial saints", one is Jiang Ziya, Jiang Ziya from the age of seventy-two, "willing to take the bait" to win the favor of Ji Chang, since then wholeheartedly for the Zhou Room made great contributions, he tried his best to assist King Wen of Zhou to unify the world, establish the Zhou Dynasty, and made a great achievement in battle, and then continued to assist the Zhou royal family, expand the territory, and also worked hard to govern the State of Qi, making it a prosperous and developed country. From the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, Jiang Ziya was called "Martial Sage" by later generations, and it was the first Martial Saint in history.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yue family army was famous, Yue Fei as the core figure, but also ranked first among the "four generals of Zhongxing" in the Southern Song Dynasty, he successively led the army to recover Jiankang, Xiangyang Six Counties, Zhengzhou and Luoyang and other places, for the crushing of the Jinguo invasion made great contributions, because the "Yue family army" fought bravely, dared to fight and dare to fight, at that time there was still a folk song that "the Jin people are afraid of the Yue family army", Yue Fei was eventually framed for the villain, failed to complete the ideal of recovering the mountains and rivers, but his efforts and sincerity, remembered by future generations, also gave him "martial saints" The title. The last one is Guan Yu, some people may have doubts, this Guan Yu is a figure in the Three Kingdoms period, much earlier than the age of Yue Fei's birth, why is it Guan Yu who finally became a martial saint? What is the reason for this?
As for the reason why Guan Yu became a martial saint, experts have long given explanations: for Jiang Ziya, most of the later generations of him know him from novels such as "Fengshen Yanyi", and in these books, Jiang Ziya is directly described as a "god", far from the historical records of Guan Yu has flesh and blood, vivid and vivid, plus the age is really long, so Jiang Ziya's achievements in martial strategy, many of them can not be verified.
For Yue Fei, although his age is closer to modern times, but because Jin and the Ruler of the Qing Dynasty are the same ancestor, the Qing Dynasty will not allow the people to worship a person who has rebelled against his "ancestor", so in the Qing Dynasty, due to the intervention of those in power, the number of people who worship Yue Fei was greatly reduced, and since then Guan Yu has obtained the title of martial saint and is worshiped by future generations.
Why Guan Yu existed before Yue Fei, but became "famous" later than Yue Fei, in fact, the reason is quite simple, that is because the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was written at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. We later generations to understand that when studying these sages, most of them rely on the books and historical materials passed down from generation to generation, and Jiang Ziya's path to becoming a god is derived from the description of the "Fengshen Yanyi", and Yue Fei's most famous historical material is the "Chronicle of Yue Ewang Xingshi" compiled by his grandson Yue Ke, these two books are added, and there is no one of the four famous works, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", one of the four famous works, is even more incomparable, "less do not read the Red Chamber, the old does not read the Three Kingdoms." Although this is a joke, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", WenJiu beheaded Huaxiong and passed five levels and beheaded the sixth general. Under the praise of generations of people, under the impetus of the God-making Movement of the Qing Dynasty, it eventually became the "martial saint" in people's mouths and hearts.
History of the Yangtze River who is the master, but look at the later generations of critics - with this sentence to comment on Luo Guanzhong, is the most appropriate. From a historical point of view, it is necessary for Guan Yu to "thank" Luo Guanzhong, it is his brilliant pen that has created a heroic image of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, martial arts, morality, wisdom, courage, and eight tastes, making Guan Yu the most suitable figure for being a martial saint.