"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has such a popular plot - Taoyuan Sanjieyi. Although Liu Guanzhang and the three were only brothers with different surnames, they supported each other all the way and established their own heroic cause together. This friendship was invaluable in that chaotic era of choosing the Lord and doing things.
But this friendship did not last to their descendants. Guan Xing and Zhang Bao chose to marry brothers with different surnames again, but they did not call Liu Chan. What is the reason for this?
First of all, we have to start with Liu GuanZhang Taoyuan Sanjieyi. In fact, to be precise, the reason why these three people can marry brothers with different surnames and achieve a good story is related to their similar intentions, but the more important reason is the situation that the three people were in at that time and the background of the three people.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the flocks of heroes chased deer, and successive years of war led to the people's livelihood being withered and mournful. The so-called times create heroes, such an era, Haojie and Zhang, Liu Guanzhang and the three people have a common vision. Liu Beikong has a sense of pride, but he has nothing but his royal status, and it is difficult to clap his hands alone. Trapped, Liu Bei met Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
Whether in ancient times or now, there is a more realistic problem, that is, "people are clustered, things are divided into groups", and most of the time the circle of people's interaction is determined by identity and status. Especially in ancient times, when the hierarchy of dignity and inferiority was particularly strict, the children of the family often only interacted with people of the upper class.
The marriage of Liu Guanzhang's three people is related to the family background of the three of them. As we said earlier, Liu Bei is a descendant of Gao Zu, but the family has long been in a state of decay, except for a clan name, it has almost become an ordinary commoner. At this time, Guan Yu was only a nursing home, zhang Fei was a businessman, although the economic situation was still passable, but the status of the merchants under the Idea of the Four People, everyone must also be clear. Therefore, in terms of social status, the three of them were probably in a relatively "equal" state at that time, and it was reasonable to be married as brothers.
Back to the question of Guan Xing and Zhang Baojieyi. According to the Eighty-first Edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Xing and Zhang Bao's alliance was due to the fact that in order to compete for the position of Wu Xianfeng official, the two deliberately launched a big contest, one carrying a knife and one carrying a spear, with a great posture of endless death.
Later, under the persuasion of Liu Bei, the two "turned Gange into jade warriors" and continued to marry brothers with different surnames. Of course, Liu Bei is one of the "hosts" of normal righteousness.
So why is it that even Liu Chan's father, Liu Bei, has offered to let Guan Xing and Zhang Bao marry as brothers with different surnames, and Liu Bei himself presided over this marriage, but Liu Chan still did not participate?
Let's start with the objective factors. The first is the inappropriateness caused by the age gap. In the ranking of Taoyuan Sanjieyi, Liu Bei was the oldest, so he became the eldest brother, but Liu Bei's life was bumpy and displaced, resulting in his children not many, and they were not very old. Although Liu Chan was his eldest son, he was much younger than Guan Xing and Zhang Bao.
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Liu Chan was born in the twelfth year of Jian'an (207), and at the beginning of the Battle of Wu, Liu Chan was only about fifteen years old, and he had not yet reached the weak crown. Although the ages of Guan Xing and Zhang Bao were not specifically recorded, at that time, the two of them could already go to battle to kill the enemy, and they were already in the position of generals, and it seemed that their age was definitely not small, at least they were definitely older than Liu Chan.
If the three of them worshiped together, Liu Chan would have to be a little brother. However, Liu Bei is the lord, originally he was the eldest brother, and it was probably not appropriate for his son to be a younger brother to others.
There was also the fact that Liu Chan was far away in Chengdu at that time. Since the cause of Guan Xing and Zhang Bao's alliance was that the two were vying for the position of vanguard, it proves that the date of cutting Wu has been set. If Liu Chan wants to participate in the jieyi, he must be present in person, and he can't always take a "tablet" instead. Liu Chan was far away from them, and in the case of soldiers and horses, it was indeed not worth it to run back and forth for thousands of miles in order to tie the knot.
The last point, and the most important and realistic point, is that the identity gap between the three of them is too large, and the monarchs are different.
Under the ancient feudal system, the relationship between the monarch, the subject, the father, the son, these relationships are clearly defined. In particular, the relationship between kings and subjects, the so-called king wants the subject to die, the subject has to die, and there is an easily insurmountable gap between the king and the subject. As we said earlier, when Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei were all married, they were all still a cloth cloth, and there was no big gap in their status. Later, the three of them fought together in the world, and the love was extraordinary, and naturally they have always been called brothers.
By the time Liu Chan, Guan Xing and Zhang Bao arrived, their status had changed dramatically. Liu Chan is the crown prince and will be a jun in the future, and Guan Xing and Zhang Bao are subjects, and there is a difference between honor and inferiority. Subordinates and kings call brothers and brothers, which is simply "what kind of system", so it is only natural that the three of them failed to worship.
There is a record in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that Liu Bei GuanYu and Zhang Fei'en were father and son, not like brothers. Because they are superior and subordinate relations, no matter what the relationship is in private, on the surface, the relationship between the monarch and the vassal is always higher than other relationships. Even if they are fathers and sons and brothers, they first have the courtesy of kings and courtiers, and then there is the brotherhood of father and son.
And there is a very realistic saying called: one generation of relatives, two generations of light, three generations do not care about food. Liu Guan Zhang Taoyuan Three Knots of Righteousness, brotherhood between the three people is the spiritual support of the Shu Han regime. But the descendants of the three of them, in the end, because of the estrangement of identity, could not continue the good story.