Why does Guan Yu always wear a "green hat"? Is there any special meaning behind it?
Introduction: Speaking of Guan Yu, I think we are not strangers to him. When he was young, he killed people and died in the end of the world, and after meeting Liu Bei Zhang Fei in Zhuo County, he fell in love with him at first sight, thus becoming a brother of the opposite sex and embarking on the road of world domination. Because he learned countless skills during his escape, this made him feel good on the battlefield, often beheading enemy leaders, such as Hua Xiong, Yan Liang, Wen Ugly, Han Fu, Bian Xi, Pound De and others, Guan Yu was also known as the "Famous General Reaper". In addition to his martial arts prowess, his image is also particularly conspicuous, always wearing a green robe and a green hat. Why is he dressed up like this, and is there any special meaning behind it? Today we're going to talk about that.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he appears and appears in a long text, when he was already a hairdresser and dressed in green. Why did he wear a green suit? In fact, it is to facilitate escape. Because he was still a wanted criminal at that time, all the governments had his portrait of wanted, if he was chased by officers and soldiers on the road, he could run to the mountains and the jungle to hide, and the green clothes could correspond to the surrounding environment, playing a good concealment effect.
After the Taoyuan Three Knots, Liu Bei thought that Guan Yu liked green very much, so he specially asked people to make a green robe to give to Guan Yu, and Guan Yu also cherished this dress and wore it all the time. After the Battle of Xuzhou, Guan Yu once borrowed Cao Ying, and Cao Cao did not hesitate to use the high-ranking official Houlu, otherwise it was a money beauty name horse to recruit him, but Guan Yu refused to accept. Even the clothes that Cao Cao gave him were worn inside, and then he put on the green clothes that Liu Bei had given him. Cao Cao asked him why he did this, and Guan Yu said that the dress was given by his brother and wore it as if his brother was around, and Cao Cao admired Guan Yu's loyalty although he was uncomfortable listening.
In addition, people's clothing in that period was mainly black and gray, and the dress was very monotonous. As a famous general in the world, Guan Yu is already well known for his green clothes, and he deliberately maintains this image in order to highlight his identity. If the enemy saw a green hairdress on the battlefield, they would naturally know that the person in front of them was Guan Yu, and a large part of them would be frightened. Guan Yu had already been able to defeat his opponent psychologically before he had even fought, so why not enjoy it?
The green hat of that period is not the "green hat" that we think of as encountering red apricots out of the wall, the green of that period is just a color, an aesthetic. The current "wearing the green hat" is from the Song Dynasty onwards, the world intentionally or unintentionally misinterpreted this word, because that era was still a patriarchal society, a man is the head of the family, he can have three wives and four concubines can dispose of a lot of resources, the wife is his vassal, belongs to his goods. In this case, if the woman cheats, it is simply a thunderous injury to her husband, not only losing her dignity but also being ridiculed by outsiders. Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian during the Song Dynasty are such a living example that everyone hates "wearing a green hat" to the bone.
Conclusion: Look at Guan Yu's life, many times involved in danger but all dangerous, and when he is separated from his brother, he still remembers his brother's kindness, and seizes the opportunity to return to his brother. In his later years, when Zhen defended Jingzhou, he was obviously already out of strength, but in order to share the pressure of the Battle of Hanzhong for Liu Bei, he also took the initiative to provoke Cao Ren of Xiangfan, and finally flooded the Seventh Army Cao Army with weak troops to make himself famous, and he was called "Martial Saint" by later generations for a reason.