In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and other ancient wild history, opera, dialect books, etc., the influence on zhou yu's folk image is very huge, the author Luo Guanzhong in order to increase the plot conflict, in order to set off Zhuge Liang's outstanding talent, extraordinary wisdom, and the creation of Zhou Yu is a small temperament.
For example, Zhou Yu repeatedly tried to murder Zhuge Liang at the Battle of Chibi, asking Zhuge Liang to make arrows. After the great war, he tried to eliminate Liu Bei's forces many times, but instead he was "three qi Zhou Yu" by Zhuge Liang, who vomited blood and died, and before he died, he sighed: "Since God gave birth to me Zhou Yu, why should he regenerate Kong Ming?" It is commonly known as "both Shengyu and He Shengliang". Nowadays, people often use "YuLiang complex" or "momentary Yuliang" to describe the situation in which two outstanding figures compete with each other. When Zhuge Liang wept for Zhou Yu, he said, "From now on, where is the world?" In a word, it is also regarded by posterity as a classic of heroic characters who feel sorry for each other.
However, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms recognized and strengthened Zhou Yu's youthful and handsome historical image, fabricated the yu Qunying Society to dance swords and compose songs, and in the process of "Sun's seizure of Jiangdong", added quite literary small battles and details of Zhou Yu's plot (such as "Ji Capture Tai Shi Ci" and "Strange Soldiers Breaking Wang Lang"),etc.), enriched the image of the character's wisdom and strategy, and strengthened Zhou Yu's position in Jiangdong (such as fictitious Zhou Yu as the governor of jiangdong, fabricating foreign affairs and not asking Zhou Yu decisively), so it cannot be summarized in a derogatory manner.
The historical Zhou Yu was born in the Lujiang Zhou family, a famous and prestigious family, after everyone. In the first year of Chuping (190 AD), Sun Jian sent troops to join the coalition against Dong Zhuo and moved his family from Shouchun to Shu County. In the same year, Zhou Yu, who was slightly younger, was like-minded with Sun Ce, and at first sight, he even provided a large mansion of his own family to Sun Ce, and Sun Ce's mother was a dry mother, who was like a brother, slept together, and lived together.
After Sun Jian's death, in order to support Sun Ce's development in Jiangdong, Zhou Yu immediately responded by leading 500 people to defect to Sun Ce and sponsoring military funds. Sun Ce said happily, "I have your Zhou Lang here, are you still afraid that nothing will happen?" ”
After Zhou Yu broke away from Yuan Shu, Sun Ce personally greeted Zhou Yu and ordered in front of the generals: "Zhou Gongjin is brilliant, and he and I have known each other since childhood, and have the love of brothers. Just like in Danyang before, it was he who recruited manpower and ships of grain and grass to achieve great things, and if you want to calculate his merits, these are not enough to repay ah. Later, when Zhou Yu accompanied Sun Ce in attacking the city of Lujiang, he captured the second daughter of The Duke of Qiao, and Sun Ce and Zhou Yu became brothers-in-law.
In the fifth year of Jian'an (200 AD), Sun Ce was assassinated and handed over power to his younger brother Sun Quan before his death. Zhou Yu returned wu to wu bereavement, and as a central protector, he assisted Sun Quan with Changshi Zhang Zhao and jointly took charge of military and political affairs. At that time, Sun Quan inherited the official position of his brother Sun Ce only as a general and a general, and the etiquette of the guests was very simple, but Zhou Yu used the etiquette of the monarch to express his support for Sun Quan, who had just inherited the foundation, and established the etiquette of the upper and lower monarchs.
Although Sun Quan regarded Zhou Yu as his elder brother, he often gave him hundreds of clothes throughout the year, and the treatment of others could not be compared with his. However, Zhou Yu never took pride in his achievements, respectfully and cautiously served Sun Quan, treated him completely according to the courtesy of the monarch, and was loyal to the Sun family. Before the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao had sent his fellow scholar Jiang Gan to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender, but Zhou Yu sternly refused.
Zhou Yu is very kind, and the people of Yangzhou call Zhou Yu Zhou Lang by the name of the average man. Zhou Yu is proficient in music, even if the wine has passed three rounds, if the music is wrong, he must know, and look back, so people at that time said: "The song is wrong, Zhou Langgu." Later generations also referred to music and drama lovers and manners as "Zhou Lang Gu" or "Zhou Lang Gu Qu".
Zhou Yu and Lu Su are close friends. When Zhou Yu was the governor of Juchao County, he heard lusu's name and brought hundreds of people to visit and asked him to fund some grain. At that time, Lu Su's family had two large circular granaries, each containing three thousand rice, Zhou Yu just said the intention of borrowing grain, Lu Su did not hesitate, immediately pointed to one of the warehouses and gave it to him. After this incident, Zhou Yu was convinced that Lu Su was a different person, and took the initiative to associate with him, and the two established an unbreakable friendship.
Pei Songzhi's "Notes on the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" quotes yu Pu of the Western Jin Dynasty's "Biography of Jiangbiao" to record that Cheng Pu was a veteran general in Jiangdong and was not willing to be Zhou Yu's deputy, "counting the tombs and insulting Yu", Zhou Yu put the overall situation first, did not calculate with the plan, and had a humble and gentle attitude, Cheng Pu was later sincerely convinced: "It is to tell people to have sex with Zhou Gongjin, if you drink alcohol mash, you will not feel drunk." Cheng Pu described interacting with Zhou Yu as tasting sweet wine, unconsciously being infected and intoxicated. This incident later developed into the idiom "such as drinking alcohol mash", which describes a person with a broad heart and a grandeur, which is worth associating.
Zhou Yu had the talent of a wise man, and when he did things for Yuan Shu, he saw that he would not have any achievements and abandoned him. Soon after Sun Quan took charge of Jiangdong, he decided that he could "finally build the imperial foundation" and devoted himself to serving. Therefore, Sun Quan praised The assets of King Zuo of Zhou Yu, and when he ascended the throne as emperor, he said to the courtiers: "If I did not have Zhou Yu, I could not be emperor." "It is also credit to Zhou Yu.
After the Chibi War, Sun Quan worshipped him as a partial general, led the Southern Commandery Taishou, and garrisoned Jiangling. Liu Bei was in Jiangnan, and after the death of Liu Qi, the son of Liu Biao, the former Jingzhou Prefecture Mu, he called himself Jingzhou Mu and was stationed in The Public Security.
Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Route" to assist Liu Beicheng's emperor was based on Jingzhou and Yizhou; as for the route that Zhou Yu planned for Sun Quan, it was "even the Yangtze River was extremely defended, and then the emperor was established to seek the whole world", that is, to seize Jingzhou and Yizhou, and cross the river to compete with Cao Cao.
According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Zhou Yu's biography shows that in 210 AD, Liu Bei entered Wu, and Zhou Yu opposed lending out Jingzhou, and offered Liu Bei to the Wu lord Sun Quan to put Liu Bei under house arrest and divide Guan and Zhang, with the obvious purpose of eliminating Liu Bei's clique. However, Sun Quan did not use it because of the situation at that time, and also agreed to lend Jingzhou Nan Commandery to Liu Bei. Zhou Yu and Cao Ren fought for Jingzhou Nan Commandery for more than a year, and although Zhou Yu won the victory, he exerted a lot of effort and suffered an arrow wound on his left rib. It was necessary to prevent Cao cao and to march west; with Liu Bei in front of him, Zhou Yu's plan was difficult to realize, so he was worried and sick.
In the fifteenth year of Jian'an (210), Zhou Yu proposed a plan to conquer Western Shu, that is, the plan of the two divisions of the world: because Liu Zhang was weak and weak at that time, he was often attacked by Zhang Lu, while Cao Cao was newly defeated and failed to recover his vitality. He could take advantage of this opportunity to attack Liu Zhang and annex Zhang Lu, then join forces with Ma Chao of Western Liang, and then send troops to Xiangyang. In this way, a counterattack on the North can be accomplished. Sun Quan agreed, but on the way back to his garrison of Gangneung, he fell seriously ill and died shortly after Baqiu, when he was Chinese New Year's Eve six years old.
Historical facts about Zhou Yu's death, only said that he was sick, not what kind of illness. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms says that he was killed by Kong Ming, so he didn't have to believe it. However, Zhou Yu's death may have something to do with Zhuge Liang, and the two are their own masters, and political strategy is incompatible.