"Yun Chang Has a Thousand Years of Heroic Souls, Jiang Zuo Who Makes Amon", this poem is composed by the Ming Dynasty poets to remember Guan Yu, showing the infinite remembrance and worship of Guan Yu's loyal spirit and heroism by posterity.
Looking at the many famous generals in the Three Kingdoms period, Guan Yu was undoubtedly the one who was promoted to the highest status in later generations, and Taoism absorbed Guan Yu into his own immortal system and honored him as The Emperor of Guan Sheng, and the imperial courts of successive dynasties also repeatedly praised and sealed Guan Yu.
In the folk, Guan Erye has become the embodiment of the word zhongyi, and when the jianghu Haojie worships his brothers, he must swear to the statue of Guan Erye.
Of course, the reason why Guan Yu can be so highly respected is also inseparable from his own heroic deeds, and Guan Yu's righteousness is thin and cloudy, arrogant and dry, and the portrait is also very heroic and heroic.
According to the mingren novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", nine feet long, Dan phoenix eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, can be described as majestic, then, how tall is nine feet? What is Guan Yu's height? To figure out the mystery of Guan Yu's height, we have to review the description of Guan Yu in the book.
First, the historical Guan Yu
When it comes to exploring Guan Yu's height, the most authoritative historical classic is undoubtedly the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in the "Twenty-Four Histories", but unfortunately, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is no specific description of Guan Yu's height, so we cannot but seek some clues from the creation of novelists.
When it comes to novels describing the Three Kingdoms period, the most far-reaching influence is undoubtedly the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" listed by later generations as one of the four famous works, and later generations will comment on the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", juxtaposing Guan Yu with Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao, calling it the "Three Absolutes" in the book, of which Guan Yu was rated as "Righteous Absolute", it can be seen that the author's portrayal of Guan Yu in the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can be described as painstaking, so how does the book describe Guan Yu's appearance?
If Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber" vividly expresses the aesthetic requirements of ancient people for women, then Guan Yu in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" completely satisfies the imagination of the ancients for beautiful men.
According to the novel, Guan Yu's height is nine feet, even the hair whiskers fluttering on his chest are two feet long, and he is still Dan Feng's eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, after writing all this, the author seems to feel that it is still not enough, so at the end of the end, he added "good looks, majestic" Eight words to conclude, which is a sufficient affirmation of Guan Yu's appearance.
However, it should be noted here that the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is only a novel compiled by later generations according to the historical story, and a large number of artistic fictions have been made for the depiction of the characters in it, and there have been scholars who have made statistics, and there are only five places in line with the depiction of the appearance of the characters in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" of the zhengshi .
However, although the height of the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms, including Guan Yu, has not been recorded in detail in the history, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Chen Shou once evaluated Guan Yu as a ten thousand enemies, in the era of cold weapons, personal physical fitness is very important for battle, so the figure of Guan Yu who can fight against ten thousand people must also be burly, even if it is not as exaggerated as described in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is not far from ten.
In short, throughout the historical data and novels, Guan Yu's tall figure and large figure are already an indisputable fact, so how tall is Guan Yu's figure, if you take the "nine feet long" recorded in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", after conversion into rice, how many meters is Guan Yu tall?
In fact, to understand this problem, it is not only necessary to know the conversion relationship between the two different units of ruler and meter, but also to pay attention to the fact that the standard of ruler in different dynasties in China is also different.
Second, how tall Guan Yu is
The description of Guan Yu's "nine feet long" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the most widely circulated text in Guan Yu's appearance, and it is also the general cognition of Guan Yu's body shape in people's hearts, so how tall is nine feet.
If calculated according to the current conversion standard, a foot is 33.33 cm, that is, 0.33 meters, that is to say, one meter is about equal to three feet, then according to Guan Yu's "nine feet" body shape, that is, about three meters in height, so it seems that Guan Yu's height is undoubtedly beyond many people in the world today, you know, China's famous basketball giant Yao Ming is only 2 meters 26.
Although Guan Yu is tall, of course, it is absolutely impossible to be as tall as 3 meters, in fact, the calculation method just now ignores the fact that in different eras, the length standard of the ruler is not the same.
Moreover, in the same dynasty, the length standard of different material rulers was also different, for example, in the Western Han Dynasty, the wooden ruler was about equal to the current 23 centimeters, and the iron ruler was about equal to the current 23.6 centimeters.
Guan Yu lived in the era of the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the three kingdoms of the struggle for dominance, we may wish to use the eastern Han scale standard to measure how tall Guan Yu is, in the Han tomb in Luoyang, there was a Han ruler unearthed, and later after expert research, it was finally confirmed that one foot in the Eastern Han Dynasty was equal to the current 23.4 centimeters.
If calculated according to this standard, Guan Yu's height is almost 2 meters, which is much shorter than three meters, but if placed in the crowd, it can be regarded as an absolute tall man.
In fact, no matter how to calculate, we can not accurately calculate Guan Yu's height, one of the reasons is due to the long age, and the lack of relevant historical records, and the ancient description of human height, generally will not be the result of accurate measurement, but after meeting, visually measuring the height of the person in front of you.
Therefore, to know the real height of Guan Yu, it is almost impossible for modern people, and we can only use some means to calculate guan Yu's approximate height.
However, no matter what Guan Yu's true height is, the image left by Guan Yu in the hearts of future generations is majestic and standing.
Third, the image of Guan Yu's future generations
In fact, the reason why later generations respect Guan Yu is not only because of how brave and good Guan Yu is, but also because of his unparalleled loyalty, so regardless of whether Guan Yu is really nine feet tall or not, the image he has handed down in later generations is as tall as a mountain.
Any era has its own heroes, but some heroes can transcend the limitations of the times and become eternal heroes, and Guan Yu belongs to the latter.
In fact, we savor the stories of Guan Yu that have been handed down now, FengJin CiCao, after five levels and six generals, Huarong Daoyi explains Cao Cao, and single-handedly goes to the meeting, in these stories, what is emphasized is not how brave and invincible Guan Yu is, but emphasizes his loyalty, his courage, and his righteousness.
We all know that Guan Yu once belonged to Cao Cao, but in cao's camp, he never forgot Liu Bei, once he learned of Liu Bei's news, he immediately crossed the pass and came, this is loyalty to the lord, but also to the righteousness of worshiping brothers, and later after the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao defeated Huarong, And Guan Yu released Cao Cao, which is still reflected in Guan Yu's heroic nature.
In short, the reason why Guan Yu was able to make a name for himself in the future generations, win so much praise and respect, be respected as the Emperor guan sheng in later generations, and be able to make the unruly jianghu Haojie willingly bow down and bow down, and be convinced and convinced, relying not only on his bravery, but on his loyalty, which is the most precious thing that Guan Yu left to future generations.
epilogue:
History is like a big river rolling east, countless dust and sand are swept away by the waves, and the last people who can stand at the head of the tide are the heroes of each dynasty, and Guan Yu is such a hero who can reflect the ages.
China is a country that respects heroes, the Chinese nation is a nation that respects faith, and the reason why Guan Yu can be constantly mentioned in future generations is precisely because he has faith, this belief is called loyalty, called righteousness, the Han room is decadent, countless haojie rose up, But Guan Yu has always assisted Liu Bei and restored the Han Dynasty, which is his loyalty and his righteousness.
Guan Yu is nine feet long and his hair is flowing, although it is a beautiful talk in history, but we hope to be able to see his red soul through his burly body, because that is our faith, what we worship.
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