At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and all kinds of fierce generals, you sang and I appeared on the stage, interpreting a nostalgic historical drama.
When you think of these fierce generals, who do you think of?
Cao Cao's five sons, Liu Bei's Five Tiger Generals, and Lü Bu, who recognized his father everywhere, must have been the most well-known figures of the First Phalanx.
Among these people, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others under Liu Bei are the top few who can rank in the first phalanx, especially Guan Yu, who can be deservedly called the best in history.
Maybe you will say that in terms of force value, there are several people who can rank ahead of Guan Yu, such as Lü Bu, such as Zhao Yun, and then such as Dianwei, how did Guan Yu become the best in history?
This is because Guan Yu's fame in later generations is very loud and correct, and people in later generations regard him as a "martial saint" with the same name as "Wensheng" Confucius, and also regard him as a "martial god" who can bring good luck.
People who do business will worship Guan Yu, people who are engaged in martial arts will worship Guan Yu, and even those who are engaged in slaughter and people who sell tofu will worship Guan Yu...
It can be seen that Guan Yu is no longer just a historical figure, but a kind of faith.
It is precisely because Guan Yu's voice in the folk is too high, so that he has an image with almost no shortcomings, but there is no perfect person in the world.
Mentioning Guan Yu, we have to say about his superb martial arts value, and the reason why he can have the power of five levels and six generals, his Green Dragon Crescent Moon Sword is naturally indispensable.
In order to set off his bravery, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" described this knife as weighing 82 pounds, as a flying fish who was breathless when he moved the bag of rice upstairs, it was difficult to pick up this knife alone, let alone pick it up and duel with others.
In the last century, an ancient tomb in Guizhou unearthed a Green Dragon Crescent Knife, its weight may not be guessed, it is only 12 pounds, is Guan Yu's weapon not so heavy at all, are we deceived?
Please come with me to discover the secrets of the Green Dragon Crescent Moon Knife.
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Guan Yunchang made the Green Dragon Crescent Moon Knife, also known as the Leng Yan Saw, which weighed eighty-two pounds.
This is the description of the Green Dragon Crescent Blade in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and as for other details, Luo Guanzhong did not deliberately depict it, which gave future generations of people the space to give full play to their subjective imagination.
And the Green Dragon Crescent Knife we see in the film and television now is basically the appearance after artistic processing.
In the rendition, the weight of this knife is very heavy, just from the time of appearance, it is longer than the time of Guan Yu's appearance, in order to set off Guan Yu's domineering, there are also many wonderful plots about this knife in the book.
Single knife to the meeting, knife to pick the brocade robe, lost the knife to die, take the knife to avenge...
When Guan Yu was fighting Lü Bu at Tiger Prison Pass, he also had a poem:
The battle failed to be won or lost, and Guan Yunchang was annoyed before the battle; the green dragon treasure sword was brilliant frost and snow, and the parrot battle robe flew butterflies.
One person and one knife have become the most shining landscape in the book.
After Guan Yu was killed, the knife fell into the hands of the Wu general Pan Zhang, and later Guan Yu's son Guan Xing avenged his father and took it back, and it was able to continue to shine in Guan Xing's hands.
It is precisely because the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that many people feel that Guan Yu's sword, which weighs 82 kilograms, really exists.
So is that really the case?
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In the 1980s, in a place called Majiazhai in Guizhou, a number of cultural relics were unearthed, including a green dragon crescent knife, which weighed only 24 kilograms.
Of course, the owner of this tomb is not Guan Yu, after expert research, this ancient tomb is related to Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, and the words such as The Great Zhou Wu clan that appear in the tomb also prove this.
In the seventeenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Wu Sangui ascended the throne in Hengzhou as emperor, the state name was Great Zhou, and the once indispensable King of Pingxi eventually dissipated in the fog of history, so was the Yanyue knife that appeared in this ancient tomb related to Guan Yu?
In fact, there is no relationship, this crescent knife should be Wu Sangui's weapon, the history books record that Wu Sangui is also the number one macho man, he has infinite strength, excellent arm strength, the weapon used is also very heavy, even up to 50 pounds.
So what does this 12-pound crescent knife represent?
In fact, this knife shows that being able to hold weapons weighing dozens of pounds and being able to take heavy weapons to kill the enemy is not the same thing at all.
This is also understandable, such as the weightlifting competition we know, athletes can lift a very heavy barbell, but if you let them hold a circle, I think even the world champion can't do it.
Therefore, this light green dragon crescent knife unearthed in the ancient tomb should be used to wield it when charging into battle, and this weight is also in line with people's consistent thinking.
Speaking of this, maybe there will be a small partner to ask, let's talk about Guan Yu's Green Dragon Crescent Knife, suddenly a Wu Sangui used, is there a connection between this?
Of course, at least we can explain through this point that Guan Yu's knife is not so heavy at all, or whether Guan Yu uses a knife or not has become unknown.
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If we carefully study the history of the Yanyue knife, we can find that in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no such knife at all, and according to the relevant documents and excavated physical objects, this kind of knife first appeared in the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Due to the heavy weight of the knife itself, it was not a weapon in actual combat when it appeared, but was used to practice arm strength.
Since Guan Yu did not have such a knife at that time, Guan Yu's weapon was naturally not the Qinglong Yanyue Sword, as to why he could speak for this sword, this was still stained with the light of Old Mr. Luo Guanzhong.
So what exactly is Guan Yu's weapon, according to the relevant literature, it should be a very common and common spear, halberd and other weapons.
In the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, the history of the Zhengshi, it is recorded that this passage is as follows:
Yan Liang attacked Liu Yan at Baima, the Taishou of Dong Commandery, and Cao's envoys Zhang Liao and Yu attacked him as the vanguard. Yu saw the good cover, and the spur was good among the multitude, and beheaded him.
This is a detailed description of Guan Yu's killing of Yan Liang, which mentions Guan Yu's action of knocking Yan Liang off his horse, namely:
stab.
We all know that it is very strange to use this verb to describe the knife, if it is really a knife, the verbs such as plucking, splitting, cutting, throwing, cutting, wiping, chopping, picking, chopping can be used, but it cannot be described by thorns, and weapons that can stand up to "thorns", spears and halberds can be used.
Looking at the weapons that appear in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", spears and halberds are the most, and in other historical materials, it is also recorded that in the Han Dynasty, "the halberd system was the most prosperous, and the spear was second", so Guan Yu could not use the Green Dragon Crescent Knife at all.
Of course, this does not mean that there were no knives at that time, and most of the knives at that time were short weapons, and Guan Yu's main combat weapon naturally could not be just a short blade.
Therefore, Guan Yu is a figure who has been deified by the legends of later generations, and his Green Dragon Crescent Moon Sword has only undergone artistic processing, but this does not affect Guan Yu's image of god and courage in the future generations, after all, he has already incarnated into a martial saint.
References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, etc.
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