As a heavyweight in the Three Kingdoms period, there is no data to indicate the time of Yuan Shao's birth, which is more or less abnormal for the top figures who stirred up the storm at the end of the Han Dynasty, and there are some regrets in it. However, there are some clues left in the history books, which are enough to make people judge his birth year, and the most important of which is his name.
There is a passage in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "Shao has a posture and majesty, can fold corporals, and many are attached to him,
Taizu less and intercourse
。 According to Chen Shou's writing habits, and the wording habits of that era, it was called "less", and the age was probably between 10-15 years old, or referring to about 15 years old. And Yuan Shao has begun to make friends with scholars, and it is reasonable to say that he should have been crowned as an adult, and the age is up to 20 years old.
Of course, this is just speculation, and to prove that this statement is true, it still needs some historical support.
According to Pei Songzhi's note in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and The Biography of Yuan Shao, the Hero's Chronicle, Yuan Shao became the governor of Puyang County in the year of his weak crown. The ancients crowned at the age of 20, but because the body was still relatively weak at this time, it was called a weak crown. The Book of Rites and Rites reads: "(Men) have a weak crown for twenty years. Therefore, Yuan Shao was 20 years old when he became the mayor of Puyang County.
There is no information on how long he was the county magistrate, but during his tenure as governor of Puyang County, Yuan Shao's mother died. So he went to the official and returned to his hometown to guard the funeral for his mother. At the end of the 3-year mourning, Yuan Shao came from it, felt the pain of losing his father at a young age, and added an additional 3 years of mourning period to himself, which is considered to be a memorial to his deceased father.
Before and after this calculation, 6 years have passed. At this time, Yuan Shao, conservatively estimated to be 26 years old. Yuan Shao, 26 years old, instead of rushing out to become an official, ran to Luoyang, Kyoto, to live a secluded life, focusing on making friends with famous people in the sea.
And this story has a similar description in the Book of later Han, the difference is that after writing about Yuan Shao's move to Luoyang, Fan Ye not only emphasized his act of befriending scholars, but also used it."
Add your heart and soul, and you will not rush to his court
Such words. And Fan Ye's writing style is similar to that used by Chen Shou in the "Biography of Yuan Shao".
Can fold the corporal, many attached
。 "It's almost a slightly different expression of the same thing.
Judging from this, Yuan Shao should have moved to Luoyang to live in seclusion after the funeral of his parents after the age of 26, and befriended famous people in the world. At this time, Cao Cao was able to communicate and make friends with Yuan Shao.
From this point of view, Yuan Shao was about ten years old when Cao Cao was about ten years old.
Of course, naturally there will be people who disagree with the age of Cao Cao represented by the words "less and jiaoyan", so it is necessary to explain it a little more. At the age of 20, Cao Cao served as a lieutenant in the north of Luoyang, but was later deeply hated by the eunuchs for killing Jian Shuo's uncle. However, because Cao Cao's father Cao Song's forces in the dynasty could not cause harm to him, they jointly recommended him to do the Dunqiu County Order.
The time when Cao Cao served as a Dunqiu Order is not clearly recorded in the Records of Emperor Wu, but there is a passage in the "Biography of Cao Zhi": In 214 AD, when Cao Cao was conquest of Sun Quan, he entrusted Cao Zhi with the heavy responsibility of staying in Yicheng, and warned him: "When I used to do Dunqiu Ling, I was 23 years old. You're just 23 now, so you have to work harder. ”
Therefore, after cao cao was 23 years old, he was not in Luoyang for a while. Then he could only befriended Yuan Shao before the age of 23, otherwise when he returned to Luoyang again, he could not be called "less" in terms of age.
But the problem is that if Cao Cao had gone to Yuan Shao after the age of 20, there was no reason why Chen Shou would not have written that he was "friends with a weak crown." Therefore, it is believed that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao befriended after the age of 20, which makes no sense. Therefore, he can only go to yuan shao when he is a teenager, but the specific teenage is unknown.
But regardless of whether Cao Cao was a teenager during the year that Yuan Shao lived in seclusion in Luoyang, there was no doubt that he and Yuan Shao had an age difference of at least 6 years. Cao Cao was born in 155, so Yuan Shao's birth time would not exceed 149 at the latest.
Coincidentally, in 145 AD, Emperor Chong of Han died of illness. At the age of 8, Liu Yi (zuǎn) was supported by the general Liang Ji as emperor, and was made emperor of the Han Dynasty, and then changed his name to Yuan Benchu. And the original is exactly The table character of Yuan Shao. The year 146 A.D. is the first year of the first year, just 3 years earlier than the latest 149 years we have just deduced, which meets the requirements.
This cannot be seen as an ordinary coincidence. Because the word Shao has the meaning of continuation and inheritance, and the first word is mostly interpreted as the beginning and the beginning, although the explanation as a name makes sense, it is not the only choice. And it just so happens that this table word is the same as the imperial era name, if it were not for the special origin, I believe that the old Yuan family was so powerful, it would not have made such a choice.
If Yuan Shao was indeed born in 146 and Cao Cao was 9 years old, then at the age of 26, Cao Cao was 17 years old, and it is reasonable to be called "less". Therefore, Yuan Shao was born in the first year of the first year of the 146th century, which is explained.
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