During the Three Kingdoms period, he represented loyalty and righteousness, and was a famous general known to chinese women and children. In the opera, Guan Yu's face is specially used "red" to represent loyalty and righteousness, and when people "worship the handle", they also worship "Second Master Guan", and even many people will choose "Guan Gong Statue" when they are tattooed. For thousands of years, Guan Yu, as a "martial saint", has had a profound impact on the Chinese nation, and many places are related to the imperial temple.
In fact, a large part of the reason for the prosperity of the Guandi Temple was that under the leadership of the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the whole country began to worship Guan Yu, and all over the country rushed to build the Guandi Temple, but there was only one place except - Lücheng. Lücheng, located in the eastern part of present-day Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, has not built a Guandi Temple until now, which has a historical origin.
The origin of Lü Cheng is also related to a general in the Three Kingdoms period, he is the Eastern Wu general Lü Meng, who "looked at each other for three days and looked at each other". However, it is not because Lü Meng is a native, so the place was renamed Lü Cheng, but because Lü Meng was stationed in this place, so it was named Lü Cheng, also known as Mengcheng. After Lü Meng's death, in order to commemorate this hero, the local temple was also built. People who live here have been influenced by the Lümeng culture since childhood.
At that time, there was also a Yanliang Temple in Lücheng. The cultivation of Yanliang Temple is also related to Lü Meng. After being stationed at Lücheng, Lü Meng built the Yan General Temple in the local area in order to appease the nostalgia of the surrendered soldiers, the subordinates of the Hebei general Yan Liang. Those who have learned the history of the Three Kingdoms know that the camp represented by Lü Meng and Guan Yu represent a hostile relationship, not to mention that Yan Liang is guan Yu's ghost under the sword, coupled with the local people's admiration for Lü Meng, so it is reasonable not to repair the Guandi Temple.
Lücheng once also tried to build the Guandi Temple, but it is said that whenever the Construction of the Guandi Temple began, the whole Ofu city could hear the sound of gango fighting at night, as if it were on the battlefield, and over time it gave up and built the Guandi Temple. And there is another legend that also makes Guan Yu "unpopular" in the local area.
It is said that in the local area, Yan Liang Temple can not sing opera related to Guan Yu within fifteen miles, once in the Qing Dynasty there was a county ling felt that this was nonsense, perhaps to meet Shangfeng's preference, he preferred opera actors to sing a play related to Guan Yu in front of Yan Liang's temple. Unexpectedly, not long after the play began, the heavens suddenly blew a fierce wind, and then a lightning bolt fell on a sunny day, killing an actor on the stage, and everyone panicked, and the scene ended hastily. But the matter did not end with the end of the opera, and soon after, there was another plague in the area, killing many people and livestock.
Since then, the local people have not dared to mention such things as building the Guandi Temple and singing Guan Yu opera. And within a radius of fifteen miles of Yan liang temple, Guan Yu was not allowed to be worshipped.
The occurrence of the above legends may be amplified by accidents, or it may be a pretext for the local people's reluctance to build the Guandi Temple. In short, Lücheng has now become one of the few cities in the country that does not worship and worship Guan Yu, which has also become a special local culture.