In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there are a total of twenty-four famous warriors, and the most widely circulated version of their ranking is: one Lü Two Zhao Three Dianwei, four passes, five horses and six Zhang Fei. From this ranking, it can be seen that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are in the top six, and in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Chen Shou also gave them a high evaluation: "Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are called enemies of all people, and they are the tigers of the world." ”
It can be seen that their martial arts are indeed very high, then the question comes, Zhang Fei is a pig killer, Guan Yu is a jujube seller, why do they have such a powerful martial art?
Some people speculate that Guan Yu makes a living selling dates, so he often uses a pole to beat dates, and over time he has developed his arm strength. And said that Zhang Fei is the same, every day to kill pigs to sell meat, killing pigs that little bit of technical work, and the use of Zhangba snake spear gun is very similar.
As a result, it was concluded that through daily work, their strength was tempered and enhanced, and in the era of cold weapons, combat did not require martial arts, as long as they had strength.
This is obvious nonsense, if this is the case, then the workers who move bricks and carry sand will already explode into martial arts masters. Where can the pigs and sell dates have a chance to get ahead, the real situation should be that they have practiced martial arts since they were young.
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Let's first talk about Guan Yu's situation, Guan Yu (?) -220), according to later investigations, the question mark should be 160 AD, that is to say, Guan Gong was born in 160 AD, born in Xie County, Hedong County, which is today's Yuncheng, Shanxi, Guan Yu character Changsheng, later changed the word Yunchang.
According to historical records, Guan Yu's grandfather was called Guan Zhen, the word qingzhi, the number of the rock, it is said that he is still a post-90s, of course, he is a post-90s earlier than our current post-90s in 1900, he was born in 90 AD, died in 158 AD, lived sixty-eight, the history books record: Guan Zhen "Chong Mu Good Dao", often with "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn" to train his son.
From here, it can be seen that the family where Guan Yu was born, even if it is not a scholarly family, is also a cultural family, and in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is also a story about reading "Spring and Autumn" at night, which can prove this, because at that time, it was difficult for ordinary children to have the opportunity to read and read.
As for whether Guan Yu had learned martial arts since childhood, the answer was of course yes.
There is a saying in China, the prosperous world learns literature, the chaotic world learns martial arts, Guan Yu grew up in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial court is corrupt, the frontier wars are continuous, Guan Yu's hometown is in Yuncheng, Shanxi, just at the junction of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Xianbei and Karasuma, people in order not to be bullied, naturally need to learn martial arts, in order to protect themselves and protect the country.
From this point of analysis, Guan Yu may have learned martial arts from a young age, and then from Guan Yu's grandfather to analyze, this old man can use the I Ching and Spring and Autumn to educate his son, but also lived to be sixty-eight years old, in ancient times, this can be said to be a very long life, if you do not strengthen your body, it must be difficult to live to this age.
Du Fu once lamented that people live for seventy years, Du Fu was born more than 600 years after them, and only lived to be 59 years old, from this point of analysis, Guan Yu's grandfather should learn martial arts.
And Guan Yu's father said that he was very filial piety, the history books have used sex to describe him, then a filial piety of a person, naturally is what his father said is what it is, Lao Tzu hero is a good man, his father is a literary and martial all-rounder, he naturally will not be bad, it can be said that Guan Yu was born in a martial arts family, since childhood to learn literature and martial arts, it is not surprising that the martial arts are strong.
When Guan Yu was 23 years old, that is, in 183 AD, he killed the local evil hao and escaped from his hometown, he could kill the evil hao, and he could still retreat with his whole body, which definitely needed a certain ability.
In addition, soon after he escaped, he knew Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, and followed Liu Bei all the way to the battlefield and the Eastern Expedition to the West, whether it was the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there was no mention of it again, and who he worshiped as a teacher to learn martial arts again, which also showed that his martial arts had long been learned at home.
After Guan Yu killed people, he fled to Zhang Fei's hometown, and if he really sold dates, his career as a date seller also began there.
Why is Zhang Fei, who was born from a pig, so powerful in martial arts?
Zhang Fei (張飞), also spelled Yide, was five years younger than Guan Yu and a native of Zhuo County, Youzhou, a native of Zhuozhou City, Baoding, Hebei Province, which was located in Youzhou.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, in addition to the regular troops, the state also had pawns responsible for public security in the counties, that is, our current militia, and the history books recorded: "Youzhou sudden horse, Jizhou strong crossbow, for the world's elite soldiers." "It means that the people of the land of Youzhou are mostly good at riding and are the best reserve troops in the country."
Growing up in this environment, it is not unusual for Zhang Fei to learn martial arts since he was a child, and after the Taoyuan Three Knots, Zhang Fei funded Liu Bei to recruit more than 500 township warriors, which shows that his family situation is still very good, at least the level above the landlord.
In the year of the Yellow Turban Uprising, there was a great drought in the whole country, there was no grain harvest, and the landlord's family had no surplus grain, but his family was able to come up with so much money at once, which showed that his family's wealth, with his family conditions, and he was so strong, it should not be difficult to become a militia company commander, or an official like the head of the armed forces department, and it was estimated that the possibility of killing pigs and selling meat was not great.
To put it bluntly, whether Guan Yu sells dates or Zhang Fei kills pigs and sells meat, there is no record in the history books, and in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, they all appeared on the scene, they had superb martial arts, and later did not follow the teacher, if this martial art is not like Cheng Yaojin, taught by the gods in the dream, it can only be the result of hard training from childhood. Do you agree with me?