(Illustration of the Three Kingdoms, Talking about Heaven and Earth, No. 287 Text/ Impermanent Fengtian Jade Illustration / Oriental Sleepless Night)
Mention the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", many people will say that although this book is wonderful, the bias is too serious, the author in order to express his support for Liu Cao's ideas, many people in Cao Cao's camp, degraded to nothing, but for Liu Bei's civilian and military generals to open the aura, such as Zhuge Liang's portrayal of the wisdom of the demon, Guan Zhang Zhao Ma Huang became the peak of martial arts achievement in that era. In fact, if we carefully read the rendition, we will find that this is not the case, after all, if the people in Liu Bei's camp can easily crush Cao Wei and JiangDong, this work will not be so wonderful.
In the novel, some characters of Shu Han are not exalted, but degraded, and some characters are exaggerated in strength, but they have not done anything great. The protagonist we are going to talk about today belongs to the latter. According to the description of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, his martial arts were on par with Guan Yu and Wei Yan, and he was cautious and not greedy, and was a malleable general. However, in the whole rendition, although he has made a lot of contributions, he has always been Guan Yu's foil, there is no independent record, and even in the minds of many people, he is only equivalent to the existence of Guan Yu's class, who is this person?
He was none other than Guan Yu's righteous son Guan Ping (in the Main History, Guan Ping was Guan Yu's eldest son). When Guan Yu passed five levels and beheaded six generals, when he was looking for his brother in a thousand miles, he once spent the night at a house named Guan Ding, and Guan Ping was Guan Ding's second son. Because Guan Ding admired Guan Yu's prestige, Guan Ping learned martial arts from an early age, so when Guan Yu left, Guan Ding offered to let Guan Ping follow him. At that time, Guan Yu had no heirs, so Liu Bei took the lead and asked Guan Yu to adopt Guan Ping as a righteous son. Since then, he has accompanied Guan Yu on his southern expedition to the northern war and made a lot of merits. As for how strong he is, let's take a look at his record.
The final battle to show his strength was the battle between him and the Wei general Pound during the Battle of Xiangfan. In the seventieth episode of the novel, it is written: "Ping da fu, the horse dances the knife, to take Pound." Tokusatsu came to greet him. Thirty battles, no matter whether they win or lose, the two families rest. That is to say, Guan Ping's martial arts are not weaker than Pound's, and who is Pound, that is a hundred rounds of battle with Guan Yu, a figure who is not timid, for Pound's performance, Guan Yu, who has always been rigid and self-conscious, sighed: "Pound's sword technique is familiar, true enemy!" And Guan Ping's ability to defeat Pound shows that his martial arts should be on par with Guan Yu's.
Speaking of this, some people may say that Guan Yu was almost old at that time, and had already passed the peak period, and could not prove Pound's martial arts at all. So let's look at Pound's head-to-head record with the others. In addition to Guan Yu, Pound not only engaged in a wheel war with four major generals including Xu Chu under Cao Cao, but also singled out the Shu general Wei Yan. Wei Yan's bravery is well known, and Pound went head-to-head with him twice, both ending in Wei Yan's defeat. Although Wei Yan was cheating once and not wanting to waste time, this just showed that Wei Yan couldn't help Pound. After such a comparison, we have to admit that Guan Ping's martial arts are the number one in the whole performance. After the Battle of Xiangfan, when Guan Yu was trapped in Maicheng, he also killed the Eastern Wu general Ding Feng, which was also a proof of his strength.
In addition to his martial arts prowess, Guan Ping is also a cautious person who is rare not greedy. During the Battle of Xiangfan, Guan Yu fought against Pound, and he was afraid that Guan Yu was old and that if there was any mistake, he would collect the troops in time; after Guan Yu was hit by an arrow, Pound let the soldiers insult him in every way, and he could insist on avoiding the battle and so on. In this way, his mentality has the potential to become a great general. However, in Luo Guanzhong's pen, he is not only a brave and good warrior, a cautious and steady general, but also a buried gold - in the whole rendition, he rarely acts alone, just an inconspicuous deputy general next to Guan Yu, with no great merits and no great achievements, this has not changed until he was killed by Eastern Wu along with Guan Yu.
I believe that many people mention Guan Ping after watching the speech, and can only remember that he is Guan Yu's righteous son. From the perspective of Yanyi alone, it is a pity that this person failed to shine, which was his own misfortune and the misfortune of Shu Han.
All the information in this article comes from books such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the editor guarantees the authenticity of the content, and there is no innuendo or politics involved.