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The times make heroes, and the heroes create the times. Since the pre-Qin Dynasty, every chaotic era will create a group of famous and famous soldiers. In these famous soldiers, there will be some legendary stories more or less. Especially in the Three Kingdoms period, a heroic and famous general, whenever he looked at it, he couldn't help but marvel in his heart and was eager to talk about wine.
Speaking of the heroic generals of the Three Kingdoms period, it is necessary to mention a person who was revered as a "martial saint" by later generations. This person was the famous Guan Yu, the Guan Sheng Emperor Jun. Popular stories such as "Taoyuan Three Knots of Righteousness", "White Horse Chopping Face Liang", and "Walking a Thousand Miles alone" have added a mysterious color to Guan Yu's body. Among them, the most enjoyable is the story of Guan Yu's "scraping bones to cure poison".
Speaking of which, the question is, is the story of Guan Yu's "scraping bones to cure poison" true? Is the person who "scraped bones to cure poison" for Guan Yu Huatuo? If not, who is that?
To clarify these problems, we can explore them from some records in the historical data.
I. Guan Yu's "scraping bones to cure poison" incident
Luo Guanzhong wrote in the seventy-fifth episode of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "It turns out that the arrow has medicine, the poison has entered the bone, and the right arm is bruised and swollen, and it cannot move." This shows that Guan Yu's right arm has been poisoned by an arrow shot. At this time, it was at the time when Guan Yu attacked Fancheng. If it was according to the words of many subordinates, it was to ask Guan Yu's class to return to Jingzhou for recuperation and conditioning.
However, Guan Yu felt that this was a good time to attack Fancheng, and if he could take Fancheng, he could drive straight into Xuchang. Therefore, it is not possible to delay major events because of their own small injuries, so that the subordinates do not have to mention the matter of retiring soldiers. The generals were helpless and could only come by Guan Yu's will, but at the same time they also visited famous doctors everywhere.
Then there was a person who heard that Guan Yu was injured and came to heal him, and this person was Hua Tuo. Hua Tuo used a sharp knife to cut the skin and flesh until the bones, and when he saw that the bones were already blue, he scraped the bones for Guan Yu to cure the poison.
Some people may say that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is only a story of interpretation, not a correct history, and it cannot prove that Guan Yu has had the experience of "scraping bones and curing poison". Don't worry, we can learn about it through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
There is a record in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 36, Shu Shu VI: "The arrow is poisonous, poisoned into the bone, when the broken arm is wounded, the bone is scraped to remove the poison, and then the affliction is removed from the ear." Obviously, this means that Guan Yu was once shot in the left arm by an arrow, and indeed healed his wounds by scraping the bone to heal the poison.
Interestingly, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Guan Yu is an arrow in his right arm, while the record in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is that Guan Yu was hit by an arrow in his left arm. However, both yanyi and zhengshi record that Guan Yu experienced such events as "scraping bones to cure poison". From this, it can be concluded that there are things that "scrape bones to cure poison".
Since the thing of "scraping bones to cure poison" really exists, is the "divine doctor" who heals Guan Yu's injuries really huatuo as stated in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?
We still need to find the answer to this question from the history books.
Second, the doctor's description of Guan Yu's "scraping bone to cure poison"
The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" actually shows that it was Hua Tuo, the famous divine doctor, who carried out the "scraping of bones and healing" for Guan Yu. However, after all, yanyi is an evolution, and it cannot be gullible. Therefore, we may wish to explore the history of the canon.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms does record Guan Yu's experience of "scraping bones to cure poison", but the doctor's name is not revealed from beginning to end. This alone can put a question mark on the matter of "Hua Tuo scraping Guan Yu's bones to cure poison". Because judging from common sense, a divine doctor like Hua Tuo, who had a name and a surname during the Three Kingdoms period, if he really cured Guan Yu of poison, there was no reason why a canonical history like the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms should not write down Hua Tuo's name together.
If this does not explain anything, then we can look again at the description of Hua Tuo in the Later Han Shu Fang Shu Lie Biography and the Three Kingdoms Zhi Wei Shu Fang Ji Biography. Both history books have described Hua Tuo's medical skills and who he healed, and both record that Hua Tuo once saw Cao Cao's illness, but only guan Yu was given the incident of "scraping bones and curing poison", and neither history book recorded it.
Through the above research, we can basically draw two conclusions. That is, Guan Yu's "scraping bone to cure poison" thing does exist, and there is also the fact that Hua Tuo is not the person who gave Guan Yu "scraping bone to cure poison".
Some people may say that undocumented and completely denied are basically two different things, which still cannot be determined that the person who "scraped bones and healed poison" for Guan Yu was Hua Tuo? Okay, let's look at the chronological order.
Third, the loophole in time
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records that Guan Yu was hit by an arrow in his left arm, and the time of scraping the bone to cure the poison should be "when Yu was the Taishou of Xiangyang and the general of Langkou, stationed in Jiangbei", according to speculation, it should have happened nineteen years after Jian'an.
In addition, there is also a record of Hua Tuo in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "Later, the cause of Aizi Cangshu's illness, Taizu sighed: 'I repent of killing Hua Tuo, so that this child will also die.'" This means that Cao Cao's son Cangshu fell ill and died, and Cao Cao regretted killing Hua Tuo. This can clearly indicate that Hua Tuo died before Cangshu.
So who is Cangshu? In fact, it was Cao Chong, the son born to Cao Cao and Lady Huan, and Cao Chong died of illness in 208 AD in the historical records, that is to say, Jian'an died thirteen years ago. Then, since Hua Tuo died before Cao Chong, this means that Hua Tuo was killed by Cao Cao thirteen years before Jian'an.
In this way, Hua Tuo's "scraping bones to cure poison" for Guan Yu will obviously have a loophole in time. That is, the "scraping of bones to cure poison" did happen, and the time of occurrence should be nineteen years after Jian'an, but Hua Tuo was killed by Cao Cao thirteen years before Jian'an. So how could it be Hua Tuo who "scraped bones to cure poison" for Guan Yu? This is absolutely impossible.
Even so, who was the person who "scraped the bones to cure the poison" for Guan Yu? Looking through the history books, I have not found the information of this person, and the answer to the question can no longer be verified.
epilogue:
The Later Han Shu Fang Shu Lie Biography records: "Guangling Wu Pu and Peng Cheng Fan A, both learned from Tuo. Puyi Zhun Tuo treatment, many full relief. Ashan needle count. From this, it can be learned that Hua Tuo actually has two students. One is called Wu Pu and the other is called Fan A. One is good at health conditioning, one is good at acupuncture and treatment, and both have obtained the true legend of Hua Tuo.
Then, the person who can "scrape the bones and cure the poison" for Guan Yu must be a "divine doctor", and people of this level are not only Hua Tuo, but also Dong Feng and Zhang Zhongjing during the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, when the Two Men incident of Guan Yu's "bone scraping and healing" incident occurred, they were either dead or had not yet been born. Excluding Hua Tuo, wu pu and fan aside are left.
Of course, this is only possible, but it is worth exploring who "scraped the bones and healed the poison" for Guan Yu.
References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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