Tianyongxing Great Sword Guan Sheng, Guan Yu's descendants, eight feet tall, phoenix eyes facing the sky, face like a heavy jujube, lips like Zhu, palm green dragon crescent knife, crotch red rabbit horse. He served as the inspector of Pudong and the Five Tigers of Liangshan, sat on the 5th golden chair, and after Zhao'an, he served as the chief of soldiers and horses in beijing's Daming Prefecture, and then fell off his horse and died.
Although Guan Sheng ranks first among the five tiger generals, compared with his ancestor Guan Yu, he is always suspected of being a fake.
The author of "Water Margin" seems to have a strong hero worship complex, so much so that guan Sheng is given a look of Guan Yu: Dan phoenix eyes, crouching silkworm eyebrows, a face like a heavy jujube, three strands of beard, is simply a clone of Guan Yunchang. People wonder if Mr. Shi Nai'an copied the Romance of the Three Kingdoms while writing "Water Margin".
Guan Sheng's appearance is a defect caused by the author's painting of a tiger not an anti-dog. Even if Guan Sheng is really Guan Yunchang's descendant, is it possible that the vicissitudes of more than a thousand years cannot dilute the genetic genes of the old Guan family. This can only be said to be caused by the author's haste of formulaization. The genetics are as follows: the son inherits half of the father, and then divides each generation by two, so that the descendants of the next nine generations account for only 1/520 of the ancestor. From the Northern Song Dynasty to the end of the Han Dynasty, it lasted for 900 years, 30 years for one generation, and there were also 30 generations. Even after Guan Yunchang, Guan Sheng only received one-hundred-and-thirteen millionths of hereditary. The appearance was given by his parents, which is understandable, but Guan Sheng deliberately imitated his ancestors from the aspects of speech and demeanor, and even the mount was "red rabbit horse steaming purple mist". Guan Yunchang once read Spring and Autumn with his hair twisted at night, and Zhang Heng assassinated Guan Sheng that night, and Guan Sheng also pretended to "twist his hair by hand and sit and read a book", which is very similar to his ancestors. Where are there so many coincidences in the world? Therefore, Guan Sheng is a failure in the character shaping of the Water Margin. In the jianghu, the nickname is hard-working, and its role is even greater than the name, which can best reflect a person's spirit. And Guan Sheng only has a nickname of "Big Knife Guan Sheng", which has neither characteristics nor depth, giving people a hasty feeling.
Although the theory that Guan Sheng is a descendant of Guan Yu is far-fetched, there is indeed a Guan Sheng in history. He was a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty who refused to surrender gold and was killed by Liu Yu, who later became the pseudo-Qi emperor. It can be seen that at the beginning of the formation of "Water Margin", it borrowed the names of many loyal and righteous people at the time of the alternation of the two Song Dynasties.
Guan Sheng's bloodline was appreciated by Song Jiang, who was looking forward to Recruiting Security day and night, so when Guan Sheng appeared, Song Jiang was worried that Lin Chong and Qin Ming would join forces to hurt Guan Sheng, and hurriedly called Jin to collect the troops. Song Jiang explained: I see guan sheng's heroic general, Shi ben loyal subject, Naizu as a god, if this person goes up the mountain, Song Jiang is willing to give way. This hero's act of cherishing the hero is the same as Cao Mengde's admiration of Guan Yunchang.
However, after being captured, Guan Sheng forgot the word "righteousness" that his ancestors regarded death as a homecoming, and said, "People call zhongyi Song Gongming, and the words are true." Today I am waiting for a family that is difficult to run, and a country that is difficult to vote for, and I am willing to be a pawn under the tent", and I surrendered.
Guan Shengguan went to Pudong to inspect, an official position set up by the Song Dynasty, in charge of training armor soldiers, patrolling the prefectures, and capturing thieves. Logically speaking, when the country encounters urgent, difficult, and dangerous tasks, it is not at all a small patrol to support the overall situation, but Guan Sheng suddenly appears and becomes a figure who reverses the crowd. Zhang Hexhui thought that Guan Sheng's surrender to Liangshan seemed reasonable: the imperial court did not see the use and was subservient. Once something happens, it is called upon in a hurry, and it is hastily used, neither hiring it with courtesy nor provoking it with righteousness. This special reason is to come and go, and the general fly camp dog ear is enough to drive the hero Hao Jieya! Indeed, if the imperial court, like Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao in those years, set up a "worship platform", build a platform and set up an altar, and worship the heavens and worship the general. I believe that Guan Sheng will never become a pawn under Song Jiang's account so quickly.
And looking at Guan Sheng's performance after surrendering, he was still moderate, and when he fought with the holy water general Shan Tingjue, he only dragged the back of his knife to shoot Shan Tingjue off his horse. When summoning the divine fire general Wei Dingguo, Wei proposed that Guan Sheng personally come and ask him to surrender, and Guan Sheng rode a single knife to the county court, imitating Guan Yu's single knife to attend the meeting. Guan Sheng, who was still the third general of the Righteous Descent, did not take the means of killing. Guan Sheng's moderate behavior is probably deeply influenced by the "domestic environment" of the Song Dynasty's moderate policy.
In embodying Guan Sheng's divine martial arts and righteousness, Shi Nai'an seems to have deliberately adopted a misplaced depiction. Guan Yu's divine martial arts are embodied in wenjiu beheading Huaxiong, passing through five passes and slashing six generals, and flooding the Seven Armies, and in terms of political stance, he firmly follows the party and always adheres to a "righteous" word, so it has been passed down through the ages. Guan Sheng was different, after being promoted from the commander of the small garrison area to the commander-in-chief of the bandits, Guan Sheng lacked the divine martial arts, but adopted gentle means everywhere: encircling Wei to save Zhao and rescue the Daming Mansion, Ji Zhang Heng, Ruan Xiaoqi, and so on.
Guan Sheng is a descendant of Guan Yunchang, and his falling grass has a strong appeal. Song Jiang knew this better than anyone. Guan Sheng appeared late but came later, ranking first among the five tiger generals, above Lin Chong, who had a strong comprehensive quality, which should be stained with the light of the old ancestors. Highlighted on Lin Chong's body is Zhang Fei, Lin Chong leopard head ring eyes, swallow jaw tiger whiskers, eight feet of figure, holding zhang eight snake spear gun, live out of a Zhang Fei alive. No matter how strong Zhang Fei's martial arts were, the number of seats could not exceed that of the second brother Guan Yu, so Lin Chong could only be below Guan Sheng. Of course, judging from the rankings of other characters, among the one hundred and eight generals of Shui Po Liangshan, martial arts are not the only criteria for determining the number of seats.
In the eyes of Emperor Huizong of Song and Gao Li and others, Guan Sheng must die. Because compared with Guan Yu, who is as righteous as a mountain, Guan Sheng has a political stain. Although Guan Sheng performed prominently after zhao'an, the mirror of the relevant feather was illuminated, and the stain could never be wiped clean. Therefore, during his tenure as the commander-in-chief of the Terracotta Army of the Daming Prefecture in Beijing, although he was deeply impressed by the military and admired by everyone, he still could not escape the tragedy of the fate of falling ill and dying of illness. Guan Sheng's fall from his horse may be a conspiracy. Seeing that the good man of Liangshan was transformed into a colleague, and Guan Sheng was in charge of the soldiers and horses in the Daming Mansion in Beijing, he was very popular with the army and was admired by everyone. Gao Li and other adulterers hated it even more, so they first took Guan Sheng to do a drug test. Sure enough, Guan Sheng was tricked, "because of the drunkenness and loss of feet, he fell ill and died", and the god unconsciously became a wronged ghost. Taking a step back and analyzing, even if Guan Sheng does not die at this time, look at the fate of Lu Junyi and Song Jiang, it is sooner or later that he dies.
Is this really: How grand is the newspaper and the friends, and remember the ancestors' festival to win the frost? The old things are unbearable and drunk, and he is miserable and Louis is dead.
Reference: Water Margin