As a tyrant in the Three Kingdoms period, although Cao Cao often showed himself as a bad person, this did not affect the love of posterity for him. However, if you pay great attention to Cao Cao, then you will find something interesting. That is, in many operas, Cao Cao is shown in the image of the Official Hat and Flower Face of the Song Dynasty. Cao Cao was obviously a figure at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so why wear a Song Dynasty official hat on him in Peking Opera?
The real reason for wearing the official hat of the Song Dynasty
We all know that in Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao is described as a treacherous and cunning, suspicious, and flying negative character.
However, can a novel really "smear" Cao Cao? The answer, of course, is no, Cao Cao was "blackened", in fact, in history before and after a total of three stages.
1. Cao Cao was first "blackened" during the Northern Wei Dynasty
Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty was a Xianbei tribe, and in order to proclaim his orthodox status to the world, he honored Cao Cao and made a series of Sinicization measures. Including moving the capital to Luoyang, reforming the official system, banning Hufu Hu, changing the Xianbei surname to Han surname, etc., his Northern Wei and Cao Wei also made people think of it.
It was also this series of reform measures that made Emperor Xiaowen offend many people in the process. Therefore, many people regarded Cao Cao as a "co-party" of Emperor Xiaowen, so they began Cao Cao's road of "blackening".
2. The second time Cao Cao was "blackened" was during the Song Dynasty
Cao Cao's second "blackening" began with Cheng Zhu Lixue during the Song Dynasty.
Cheng Zhu Lixue, also known as "Cheng Zhu Daoxue", is one of the main schools of Song Ming Lixue and one of the schools of Science that has the greatest influence on later generations
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Cheng Zhu Lixue, one of the schools that had the greatest influence on later generations, believed that only Liu Bei was authentic, while Cao Cao and Sun Quan were both "Han thieves". Therefore, another "blackening" of Cao Cao began.
In addition, there were often foreign invasions during the Song Dynasty, and the Liaojin forces in the north were once on a par with the strength of the Song Dynasty. This situation, from a historical point of view, is very similar to the situation in the Three Kingdoms period when the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu were at their peak. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao had blackmailed Tianzi to order the princes to do a deviant act in the name of the emperor to direct others to do as he pleased.
So people once again pulled Cao Cao to the "criticism platform", and later added his image of a clown with a flower face in the opera, and wore a Song Dynasty official hat, which was criticized by the Song people at that time.
3. The third time Cao Cao was "blackened" was in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" must be very familiar with Cao Cao's "blackening". Later, after the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Cao Cao was again evolved into a white-faced image of a clean horn in Peking Opera. People think that Cao Cao is a well-known adulterous male after all, and should not be said to be a small minions, so it has evolved into a net horn. Despite this, in many dramas at that time, the clown image of Cao Cao's Song Dynasty official hat was still followed.
summary:
In this way, Cao Cao was mistakenly dressed as an opera by the posterity Zhang Guan Li Dai, so over time people also believed in the image of Cao Cao's adulterer. However, as long as the friends who know a little about the history of the right history know,
The real Cao Cao in history was a "supernatural master" and a "capable minister who ruled the world".