First, arrogance and arrogance
There is a famous saying: Man must not be proud, and a soldier must not be proud!
Pride and pride, although there is a word difference, the realm is very different.
So what if both pride and pride are combined by one person? Most likely, it will become like Guan Yu in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
First of all, pride must come from ability, which is probably not wrong! Having no ability but daring to be proud has become a joke, such as LingLing General Xing Daorong. What is his pride? It makes people laugh!
The second is pride, which must come from faith, which is also common sense. No one likes the wall grass, so having milk is the behavior of the mother, even if it is the Three Kingdoms in the golden period, it will be said to collapse and collapse.
Take Lü Bu, for example. Great skill, arrogant, but no faith, no arrogance, after being played by Cao Cao and Liu Bei on the White Gate Tower, the double reed, or was knocked off the brain shell. This man was going to die, but he still didn't understand why he had died, so he threw all his anger down liu bei and roared, "He is the most unbeliever!" ”
But the problem is that Liu Bei, the most untrustworthy in Lü Bu's mouth, is instead the firmest person recognized by the Three Kingdoms. With faith as the basis, Liu Bei's lack of faith has become a "change of chance". With Lü Bu's "milk is a mother", he immediately drew a clear line. Therefore, Lü Bu, like Xing Daorong, can be called confused and dead.
Therefore, the support point of pride is the skill, and the foundation of the proud bone is faith!
Guan Yu's special also appeared, he had both ability and arrogance, and at once he was distinguished from Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao, Zhang Gao and other famous generals who had no pride.
At the same time, Guan Yu was still full of faith and proud. This feature is also the common characteristic of most of the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms, the only pity is that Yu Ban has always been a perfect model in Cao Cao's eyes, but as a result, he finally surrendered to Guan Yu, making Cao Cao say that he could not understand Yu Ban.
Well, understand Guan Yu's special features, that is, both "pride and pride", let's start to focus on the analysis and discussion of Guan Yu's contradictions in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" - because he is too big, arrogance is also soaring, looking at everyone like "inserting a bid to sell the first", but in the face of these 2 famous generals of the Three Kingdoms, it is clear that "doubts life".
First of all, why Guan Yu dared to show off his pride in such a high profile.
Second, Guan Yu's arrogance and arrogance
In fact, Guan Yu's pride comes more from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Because there are relatively few records of Guan Yu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
In the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and other canonical histories, Guan Yu's first words are addressed to Zhang Liao. At that time, he had surrendered to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao admired Guan Yu very much, so he asked Zhang Liao to test it. So Guan Yu said, "I know very well that Cao Gong treats me thickly, but I have received great favor from General Liu and swore to die together, and I must not betray it." ”
This sentence is obviously the perfect embodiment of Guan Yu's "proud bone". In the face of the glory and wealth at their fingertips, they will not betray their beliefs. Therefore, Cao Cao praised Guan Yu greatly: "The emperor does not forget his roots, and the righteous soldiers in the world are also!" ”
After understanding Guan Yu's proud bones in the main history, I actually understood why Guan Yu in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" suddenly became so "arrogant". For example, many people laughed at the "look at everyone like an insert and sell the head", before each single challenge, they always habitually asked: "Ru bi Yan Liang, what is the ugliness of the text?" ”
So-called, the proud bone determines the level! Guan Yu in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is extremely highly positioned, so he seems to be so arrogant. The subtext is that Cao Cao treated me with great courtesy, Liu Bei is my eldest brother, others? Sorry, except for Zhang Fei, Zhuge Cunfu was not in the beginning!
Is this wrong? According to the logic of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is nothing wrong at all! After all, in order to shape Guan Yu's proud bones, Guan Yu also took the credit of Sun Jian - chop Huaxiong! And out of thin air, thousands of miles to ride alone, through five levels and six generals! These are the capitals that Guan Yu has become arrogant.
Unfortunately, one Guan Yu eventually failed, and the other was probably too strong (also containing factors of changes in the times), and Guan Yu became more and more detached from the original tone - the sense of arrogance, becoming more and more thin. The sense of pride, on the other hand, took the opportunity to break through the sky and had the potential to fly away from the earth.
The so-called "tiger girl can marry a dog"? This sentence has made many acting fans very disgusted. Why would you? Although Sun Quan's marriage proposal is uneasy and kind, but the relatives are Zhuge Liang's brothers, where can he hit his face like this? This determined that Guan Yu was arrogant.
But the problem is that in the records of the Three Kingdoms and other canonical histories, Guan Yu never said this. Therefore, the Guan Yu in many people's impression today is actually a fictional image of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" - the arrogance is infinitely magnified, and the squeezed proud bones are nowhere to be found.
Look a bit messy? One session "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", one session "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The author can only do so, and try to explain it clearly, and the author has stressed many times that for the Three Kingdoms, the interpretation and the correct history, they cannot be separated. Otherwise, you can't understand why "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has to shape the characters like this. On the contrary, understanding these will be more conducive to understanding the characters of the Three Kingdoms in the history! If only one side is emphasized, it is easy to go into the wrong area and draw extreme conclusions.
Three, two famous generals of the Three Kingdoms who made Guan Yu doubt his life
Knowing why Guan Yu is arrogant in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the next content is equivalent to understanding. Because for Guan Yu, when facing these two famous generals of the Three Kingdoms, he had doubted life.
The first is Pound! In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Guan Yu once had a bizarre and strange dream: he suddenly saw a pig, which was as big as an ox, covered in black, running into the tent, biting the foot of the cloud. Yun Grew angry, and quickly drew his sword and slashed it, and the sound was like a crack. Suddenly, it was a dream.
Guan Ping explained the dream: "Pigs also have dragon elephants." The dragon's appendage is the meaning of ascension, and there is no need to be suspicious. However, he did not dispel Guan Yu's doubts, and told the generals under the account about this dream, but the result was "or auspicious words, or ominous words, and the opinions of the people are different." Guan Yu finally said, "My eldest husband, who is nearly sixty years old, is sorry to die!" ”
Then Yu Ban and Pound rushed to the rescue. Pound fought guan yu twice. The first time was "there are more than a hundred in the war". The second time was, Pound "hit (Guan Yu) with an arrow in his left arm." This time with that strange dream buckle cover, Guan Yu was really hurt, from "biting the cloud long foot" to "right in the middle of the left arm", all mad Guan Yu.
It is reasonable to say that Pound will be retaliated against by Guan Yu. But the truth is that Guan Yu actually admired Pound and wanted to persuade him to surrender. It was not until After Pound scolded him that Guan Yu killed him, and finally "buried him with pity".
Guan Yu and Pound's battle can be called his most faceless single head-to-head, playing more than a hundred rounds without winning or losing, and being shot. Judging from the results, it obviously made Guan Yu "doubt life", how could he have ever had such a fiasco? Guan Yu's reaction was also very strange, but he admired Pound and wanted to persuade him to surrender. why?
It has nothing to do with Ma Chao, but the Zhengzheng pride displayed by Pound, who is very interested in Guan Yu's appetite! That's why it's said: Soldiers must not be proud!
Whether you are a scholar or a warrior, or a proud person, no matter who admires you! On the contrary, soft bones or milk are the mother's generation, and whoever sees it is disgusting.
This is the product of a positive energy of history! And Guan Yu himself is actually the representative of this arrogant figure.
The second is Lu Meng. In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", who is the person Guan Yu hates the most? It must be Lu meng!
After Guan Yu was killed, at first he didn't recognize it at all, and his soul was still scattered, shouting in the air, "Return my head"! Until he was enlightened by Pujing: "Now that the general was victimized by Lü Meng, he shouted back my head, but Yan Liang, Wen Ugly, five passes and six generals and other heads of the people, to whom will Soye be?" So Guan Gong suddenly realized, and the head of the audit took refuge and left.
It seemed that Guan Yu had an epiphany and detachment. But what happened, then guan Yu's soul, possessed by Lü Meng, angrily cursed Sun Quan, and killed Lü Meng.
Looks contradictory, right? Isn't it said that Guan Yu "suddenly realized, and the head of the audit took refuge and left", why did he make trouble again? Therefore, Guan Yu is not "doubting life" is what it is. So why is Guan Yu so contradictory after his death? There are roughly two representative opinions.
One: paving the way for Guan Yu to become a god after his death. Second: despise Lü Meng's sneak attack. But the author still has a point of view: arrogance leads!
Guan Yu died not so much from Lü Meng's sneak attack as he died of his own pride, and as soon as Lu Xun praised him, he believed it, transferred the troops to guard against Eastern Wu, and gave Lü Meng the space and opportunity to "cross the river in white clothes".
But guan Yu, who was arrogant and arrogant, obviously did not know how to reflect on himself, and blamed all the blame to others, such as Lu Meng. Therefore, even if he becomes a god, he must find it back, completely disregarding the image of "God".
This is actually the terrible point of "pride", which can directly destroy any "god-like person"!
Therefore, people must not be proud! Once the pride is full, even if it is sealed as a god, it is very easy to develop from "doubting life" to "denying self", so it is necessary not to be unaware!