Introduction: In the eyes of ordinary people, muscular men, explosive power are relatively strong, fighting is very brave, like the generation of grandmaster Bruce Lee who everyone worships, full of muscles. Some of the fierce generals in historical dramas are basically the image of the meat-sandwiching man, the block is not generally large, and it can easily knock down a large piece. However, according to the portraits left by the ancients, the images of those fierce generals are very different from those in television, almost all of them are fat.
Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, had innate divine power, easily lifted the Big Ding, and killed hundreds of people in the first battle, and the ancients had an evaluation of "the god of feathers is brave, unique in eternity". Surprisingly, although Xiang Yu is tall, he is not the muscle man we think of, but the figure is slightly fat, after seeing his real portrait, many people are incredulous, can not imagine that their idol in their minds is actually like this.
Guan Yu, who was loyal and righteous, was more than eight feet tall, holding a Green Dragon Crescent Moon Knife, and if he was single-handed, looking at the entire Three Kingdoms, only Lü Bu, Zhang Fei and a few others could match it. According to the portrait left by Guan Yu, there is also a big gap with the image in the film and television drama, with a large "beer belly", giving people a feeling of slow action.
A court painter in the Southern Song Dynasty once painted a portrait of the famous anti-Jin general Yue Fei, and it has been preserved intact to this day. Through its portrait, we can see that Yue Fei, the god of war, is not only not burly, but has a somewhat yongzheng figure, according to the current words, he is a fat man and needs to lose weight well.
Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, was once a military general of the Later Zhou Dynasty, a famous martial arts master in history, and someone once said that if Zhao Kuangyin did not become an emperor, he would definitely be the lord of the martial arts alliance in the world at that time. The Taizu Changquan he created has an extraordinary position in the Chinese martial arts family, and even the Shaolin Temple, which claims to be the world's martial arts out of Shaolin, is also willing to bow down to Taizu Changquan. However, according to the portrait of Zhao Kuangyin handed down in the palace, he was also a very fat man.
Some foreigners who worship Chinese culture almost all have a common question, why are china's military generals who can fight good wars almost all fat people with big belly? People who know Western culture know that in their eyes, almost all the generals who can fight are extremely developed in muscles, such as the Spartan 300 warriors, all of them are this image, there is no fat man at all.
In response to this doubt of foreigners, Chinese netizens only said 4 words, that is, "tiger back bear waist". In the eyes of the ancients, a person with a back as thick as a tiger and a waist as thick as a bear is the real cattle man who can fight, and his strength is not comparable to that of a person who looks like a muscle. Just like the current weightlifting champions, they can lift hundreds of pounds of objects, and if they are replaced by those muscle men, they can't lift them even if they are tired.
In addition, although those famous generals in ancient times were fat, because they often practiced martial arts, their movements were quite flexible, and their strength was great, and they were extremely brave in fighting. On the real battlefield, the tiger's back bear waist is far more important than the "eight-pack abs". In addition, a certain amount of fat can play a role in buffering the impact of the opponent, which is the so-called resistance to hit.
Don't underestimate those famous generals in ancient times, they may not be as majestic and heroic as you think, so powerful, and there is no so-called eight-pack abs, but their combat effectiveness is by no means comparable to those of muscular men. Many muscular men are just flower racks, especially bodybuilders, but they just look like they have a so-called "beauty", and they really fight, and they are definitely not the opponents of fat people.