The evaluation criteria of the nickname are based on the merits of the deceased person's life, and it is a generalization of the feelings of the descendants to the predecessors, and it is not deliberately controlled in terms of the length of the word count. The Five Tiger Generals of the Three Kingdoms period, their nicknames when they died, were all set by Liu Chan, and from the five titles, we can see that Liu Chan had great opinions about one of them.
Admiral Wuhu put forward the name proposed by Luo Guanzhong in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and there is no such thing as a general of the Five Tigers in history. The "Five Tigers" we generally think of are Ma Chao, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu. In the public's impression, these five people should be more powerful than the other, especially Guan Yu, who is also called "Martial Saint" by the historical people, but Liu Chan's view of this predecessor does not seem to be so.
When Liu Chan later posthumously awarded Guan Yu the title of "Marquis of Zhuangmiao", the explanation is that Guan Yu has a body of force, but his personal merits are not prominent, and the word "Miao" highlights Liu Chan's view of Guan Yu. Although the decadent state of the Shu kingdom had many influences, the most direct turning point was that Guan Yu Maicheng was killed, and then led to the defeat of Liu Beifa Wu Bing, and a series of other problems, which made Liu Chan have a layer of mustard for Guan Yu, and Liu Chan was very grumpy about his key failure.
Because Zhang Fei was Liu Chan's father-in-law, he was given the nickname "Huan Hou", which was intended to express Zhang Fei's kindness for opening up the territory and expanding the territory of the Shu kingdom. Zhao Yun was the least powerful person around Liu Bei, but because he had a life-saving grace for Liu Chan, he was nicknamed "Marquis of Shunping". For Ma Chao, because he was quite prestigious among the Qiang people in the west, Liu Chan hoped to use him to intimidate the Qiang people, and he would certainly not casually name him and give him the nickname "Wei Hou". Huang Zhong, who was old and strong, made many contributions to Shu Han, bravely killed the enemy Gang Liezhongzhen, and after his death, Liu Chan posthumously awarded the title of ''Gang Hou'', And Liu Chan's evaluation of these two people was very pertinent.
Comparatively speaking, among the five tiger generals, Guan Yu's nickname was the lowest, although Guan Yu was defeated in the last battle, but in the early stages, he shared happiness and hardship with Liu Bei, and it was difficult to start a business, why did Liu Chan not consider it, but instead grasped the mistake of the last point? The key to this is that after Guan Yu's death, his family had no residual power in Shu Han, and the other four people would either be related to Liu Chan and "related to each other", or they would still be helpful to the political situation of Shu Han, Liu Chan had been suppressed under Zhuge Liang for many years, and he was naturally dissatisfied with Guan Yu, so Liu Chan would take Guan Yu's nickname so unappreciated.