The history of the Three Kingdoms can be said to be a household name. After all, there are too many commentaries and film and television works to reflect that period of history, and the characters and stories in it are familiar to many people. Liu Guanzhang Taoyuan Sanjieyi, Zhuge Liang's empty city plan, the Battle of Guandu, and so on. When we look at this history, it's easy to overlook one thing. It is how old the characters in these are, and when you see some people appearing together, you will unconsciously think that they may be the same age. In fact, this is not the case. The age difference between the characters in the Three Kingdoms is still relatively large. For example, Liu Chan was not yet as big as Cao Cao's grandson Cao Rui, and Sima Yi was bigger than Sun Quan.
Because the span of the Three Kingdoms is very long, from the end of the Han Ling Emperor to the return of the three families to the Jin, there is a total of nearly a hundred years, so the age difference between the characters in it is very large. Because of this, there are many characters in it who are not of the same generation at all. Let's take a look at which people in it are a generation today.
First, let's take a look at some of the oldest people inside. Tao Qian, born in 132. No wonder he later died of illness and gave Xuzhou to Liu Bei, who was too old; Liu Yan, liu Zhang's father, although there was no detailed date of birth, but the same time as Tao Qian; Cai Yong, born in 132. He was the father of Cai Wenji and a famous writer. After Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he supported Dong Zhuo; Wang Yun, born in 137, he later designed to execute Dong Zhuo; Dong Zhuo, although there is no detailed date of birth, but according to his life, his birth time should be between 130 and 140; Liu Biao, born in 142. Although he was younger than the previous ones, he was very old compared to the Eighteenth Road Princes.
These were the first people in the Three Kingdoms. Many people do not know what their birth time means, simply speaking of the Han Huan Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, the grandfather of the Han XianDi, that is, born in 132. That is to say, these people were the elders of the Four Dynasties at that time, and their rank was still very high. Even if these people all died well, they would not be able to compete with Cao Cao and others for the world, after all, the age gap was too big. Cao Cao could also kill these people.
Let's look at the second group of people. Cao Cao, born in 155, does not need much introduction to Cao Cao, everyone is familiar with it anymore; Sun Jian, Sun Quan's father, was also born in 155. Now we should know why Cao Cao said that "having a son should be like Sun Zhongmou", after all, he and Sun Jian are a generation; Liu Bei, born in 161, is 6 years younger than Cao Cao. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei do not have a detailed date of birth, but they should be similar to Liu Bei. What is certain is that Guan Yu is older than Liu Bei and younger than Cao Cao; Zhang Zhao, born in 156, the head of the civil officials of Eastern Wu, now knows why he is an old minister, and the people and Sun Jian are about the same age; Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, born in the period of 150 to 160, are comparable to Cao Cao and Liu Bei; Kong Rong, born in 153, his age is older than Cao Cao and Liu Bei. However, because of his personality, he offended Cao Cao and was killed.
After watching this generation, another look at the first batch of people can find that it is really the back wave of the Yangtze River pushing the front wave. Those in front of them were basically overthrown by these people. It's really not okay to be old. Now that I think about it, the disparity in film and television works is still very large. Almost all of the people playing Zhang Zhao in it are old men, while Cao Cao and Liu Bei are young people, in fact, these three people are similar in age.
Third, look at the third group of people. Compared with Cao Cao and Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others, these people are equivalent to the next generation. Lu Su, born in 172, is still relatively old among the talents of Jiangdong; Zhou Yu, born in 175, although he came to power earlier than Lu Su, but younger than Lu Su. Now we know why the time of Lu Su and Zhou Yu's death did not differ for long, after all, Lu Su was a little older; Zhuge Liang, born in 181. In terms of age, Zhuge Liang is 9 years younger than Lu Su and 6 years younger than Zhou Yu. No wonder Zhou Yu looked down on Zhuge Liang.
Sima Yi, born in 179, was not much different in age from Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang. However, he lived a very long time, so he felt that he was not a generation away; Liu Zhen, the Emperor of Han Xian, was born in 181. Emperor Xiandi of Han was about the same age as Cao Cao's son, and it was no wonder that Emperor Xiandi of Han was not Cao Cao's opponent, and the difference in age between the two was very large; Sun Quan, born in 182, was about the same age as Sima Yi and Emperor Xiandi of Han. However, Sima Yi was three years older than Sun Quan. Lu Xun, born in 183. As the main general in the early days of Eastern Wu, Although Lu Xun was a generation younger than Sun Quan, he was only one year younger than Sun Quan. Moreover, his age was not much different from that of Zhou Yu and Lu Su. But in film and television works, it feels like a generation at all.
After reading this set of data, did you find that there was something wrong with it. At the time of the Battle of Chibi, if you look at it from the perspective of age, it is basically Cao Cao's generation and Sun Quan's generation that fight again, they are not a generation at all. Lu Su, Zhou Yu, Zhuge Liang, Sun Quan, and others were all the same age as Cao Cao's sons. It is really young and strong, and it is a new generation that has overthrown the previous generation.
Fourth, look at a group of people. Cao Pi, born in 187. Although Cao Pi was not Cao Cao's eldest son, he was later considered the eldest son because of the untimely death of Cao Cao's eldest son; Ma Liang, a relatively important talent in Liu Bei's later period, was born in 187; Ma Mo, the one killed by Zhuge Liang, was born in 190. In terms of age, the brothers Ma Liang and Ma Mo were not much younger than Zhuge Liang; Cao Zhi, born in 192. It was precisely because of the small disparity between his age and Cao Pi that he was qualified to compete for the throne; Deng Ai, born in 197, and Zhong Hui destroyed the Shu Han together. However, Zhong Hui was very young, born in 225, 28 years younger than Deng Ai, a whole generation.
These people are a little younger than the previous ones, but the disparity is not particularly large.
Fifth, let's look at the generations. Cao Rui (曹叡), born in 204, was The grandson of Cao Cao; Liu Chan, born in 207, was the son of Liu Bei. From here, it can be seen that Liu Bei was 46 years old when he was born Liu Chan, and he really had a son in old age, and his son was not as old as Cao Cao's grandson; Jiang Wei, born in 202. Jiang Wei was a major general in the late Shu Han Dynasty. One thing can be found from here, the generals of the Shu Han Dynasty have broken the generation. From Zhuge Liang to Jiang Wei, the age span is very large; Sima Shi, born in 208. Sima Shi and Sima Zhao were two brothers, three years apart. They were basically a generation with Cao Rui and Liu Chan; Zhuge Ke, born in 203, was the son of Zhuge Liang's brother Zhuge Jin, who controlled Eastern Wu for a period of time after Sun Quan's death; And Zhou, born in 201, later tried to persuade Liu Chan to surrender. Now it seems that his age is similar to Liu Chan.
In this generation, many people are relatively familiar. In the Three Kingdoms, these people all appeared in the second half. As for some of the others. The generation after these people, many people are not very familiar with.
This is the date of birth of many famous people in the Three Kingdoms. Seeing this, do you understand why some people do not intersect with each other? Some people even have intersections, reasons why time is short. It's not that they don't want to have an intersection, the main thing is that the age gap is too big, and really time doesn't allow it.
Resources:
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei