Guangong culture is a unique Chinese excellent traditional culture that has gradually developed and formed based on the admiration, admiration, imitation and worship of the historical hero Guan Gong's personality deeds, spiritual charm, moral sentiments, and ideological concepts.
The core of Guangong culture lies in the moral values contained in the spirit of Guangong and its positive and extensive impact on social life. In the eyes of the Chinese people, Guan Gong is not only a historical hero with high martial arts and great feats, but also a moral model and personality model of loyalty and righteousness. The personality ethics of loyalty, righteousness, benevolence, courage, courtesy, wisdom, faith, festival, and honesty displayed by Guan Gong embodies the essence of morality, moral ideals, moral cultivation, and human qualities that traditional Chinese culture has always respected and inherited, and the image of Guan Gong, who is "allowing wen to allow martial arts, and being a saint is God," naturally becomes the "image spokesman" of the traditional virtues and national spirit of the Chinese nation, and occupies a historical position of "absolutely beautiful and elegant group" in the great homeland of Chinese traditional culture.
The spiritual connotation of Guangong culture is extremely extensive, such as the well-known spirit of loyalty, benevolence, integrity, righteousness, chivalry, Taoyuan knot, and gratitude, which are all important components of the spiritual connotation of Guangong culture.
The spirit of loyalty and righteousness is the most widely spread spiritual quality in the spirit of Guan Gong. Throughout his life, Guan Gong was loyal to the Han Dynasty, loyal to Liu Bei, loyal to the country and the people, loyal to the liver and righteousness, and unswerving. At the time of the three events in Tushan, Guan Gong's first condition was "to surrender Han and not to surrender Cao", which reflected his loyalty to the Han Chamber; when he was trapped in Cao's camp, Cao Cao tried his best to envelop Guan Gong, but Guan Gong was not at all moved. Zhang Liao tempted Guan Gong: "If Xuande has abandoned the world, where does gong belong?" Guan Gongyue: "Willing to follow the ground." This categorical answer reflects Guan Gong's loyalty to Liu Bei as firm as a rock. Guan Gong took the Zhixing Han Room and the Kuang Fu Han Room as his life aspirations and ideals, loyal to death, righteous and unworthy, and became a cultural symbol and image representative of the Chinese nation's loyal spirit.
The spirit of benevolence and righteousness is also common in Guan Gong's historical biographies, novels, and legends. The history book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" states that Guan Gong "treated the pawns well" and that when the town was guarding Jingzhou, "Enxin was in a big way". The most famous story fragment is "Ren Shi Huang Zhong" during the Guan Gong War in Changsha. Guan Gong fought against the veteran general Huang Zhong, Huang Zhong's horse lost its front hoof and was thrown to the ground, Guan Gong never took advantage of the danger of others, but let Huang Zhong change horses to fight again, reflecting Guan Gong's great benevolence and benevolence.
The spirit of integrity is also clearly recorded in the history book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". After Cao Cao failed to win over Guan Gong many times, he realized that Guan Gong did not have the intention of staying long, and asked Zhang Liao to ask Guan Gong with his personal feelings. Guan Gong told Zhang Liao frankly: "I know cao gong's great love for me, but I have been generously favored by general Liu Bei and swear to die together and not to turn my back on me." I will not stay after all, and I will leave after giving credit to Cao Gongli. During the Battle of Guandu, Yan Liang led a large army to surround Baima, and Cao Cao was helpless. Guan Gong "saw liangqi gai, and spurted the horse to be good among the multitudes, beheaded it, and Shao Zhu was unable to be the one who could do it, so he lifted the white horse siege." After completing the promise made to Cao Cao that day, after learning of Liu Bei's downfall, he hung up the seal and sealed the gold, rode alone for thousands of miles, and returned to Liu Bei's side.
Guan Gong's character of "clear grievances and outstanding faith" is thus well known to his contemporaries. After the Battle of Cao Cao's Chibi, when he was defeated by Huarong Dao, Cao Cao lamented with the kindness of the old days, Guan Gongyi was as heavy as a mountain, and Huarong Daoyi interpreted Cao Cao, embodying Guan Gong's excellent character of knowing gratitude and being grateful and having grace to repay.
The spirit of righteous courage is mainly embodied in three pieces, one is to reflect Guan Gong's martial arts, heroic and good at war, such as wenjiu chopping Huaxiong, chopping yanliang and wen ugly, slashing six generals through five levels, and slashing Cai Yang with three drums; the second is to embody Guan Gong's bravery without fear and awe-inspiring gods. For example, a single knife went to the meeting; the third is to embody Guan Gong's Wentao's martial strategy, wisdom and courage. Such as flooding the Seventh Army, capturing the forbidden, chopping Pound, Wei Zhen Huaxia and so on. The spirit of Guan Gong's righteousness and courage has also become a heroic example of courageous fighting in later generations, and thus derived the spirit of the big knife and the spirit of resistance.
The spirit of Taoyuan Jieyi contains both the love and righteousness of brothers, but also the loyalty and righteousness of the country and the nation, and the Taoyuan Jieyi Oath: "Although the surname is different, if they are married as brothers, they will work together to save the poor and help the crisis; report to the state and go down to Lishu", which reflects that the Taoyuan Jieyi spirit has a higher ideal and pursuit of life, and it is easier to arouse the worship and respect of civil society for the spirit of Guan Gong, which produces the people's emotional resonance, moral recognition, moral follow-up, and spiritual yearning.
Guangong culture is rooted in the fertile soil of Chinese national culture, has a thick moral and cultural historical background, has a broad mass base, with The heroic deeds, personality charm, spiritual quality, cultural connotation of Guan Gong in civil society deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, passed down from generation to generation, The traditional Chinese virtues contained in Guangong culture have condensed into an important part of the Chinese national spirit and national character, and have become the code of conduct and values that the Chinese nation jointly pursues and advocates.
--This article was published in Hong Kong Commercial Daily