Guan Yu's little thing

As a historical figure, Guan Yu is definitely a very powerful warrior, but there is a question, you want to say that Guan Yu is so powerful, where is his strength? There is very little relevant material.

If you look at the biography of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there are not many of their beautiful records.

Why is this happening? One possible reason is that when Chen Shou wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there were many things he could not write, although it was already the Jin Dynasty at that time, but the Jin Dynasty inherited Cao Wei, many of the heroes of the Cao Cao era, their descendants still had to be officials, anyway, at least there was power.

Chen Shou wrote history, to write Guan Yu beheaded Yan Liang, there is no problem, Yan Liang is Yuan Shao's person, so Chen Shou wrote, how Guan Yu stabbed Yan Liang from among the crowd, and then beheaded, he can write.

But if you write how Guan Yu beat up Yu Ban, Man Pet, and Cao Ren, this is inconvenient to write. Because if you write it down, people are likely to have an opinion.

It's like if today you make a TV series involving a celebrity, maybe the descendants of others will find you: how can you do this, how did you write my grandfather like this? Today to find you is relatively small impact, the big deal is to seal your drama, do not broadcast to you. Chen Shou's era was even more terrifying, first of all, after involving a lot of soldiers, his temperament was also relatively fierce, and he might directly slaughter people on the street. And according to the custom at that time, you said bad things about my grandfather, said bad things about my grandfather, I slaughtered you, said that I was a filial piety and grandson, not only will not scold me, but it is likely to commend me.

Therefore, many things, Chen Shou has no way to write, he can only write everyone mentions Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and admits that these two people are too powerful, but how powerful they are, they can only write a few things.

Although it was not written in the history books, in the following hundreds of years, word of mouth was passed down, saying that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were particularly brave. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a scholar named Zhao Yi, who specifically collected information on the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and when he praised who was particularly capable of fighting, he said that this was "Guan Zhangzhi."

Courage".

On the other hand, there are many legends related to Guan Yu in the folk. Because according to the concept at that time, it was often thought that a military general, if not a good death, such as Guan Yu's ending, Lan defeat and beheading, then he would not be willing after death, and would create disasters for the human world, for example, the Jiangling area of Hubei Province, that is, the place where Guan Yu's soldiers were defeated, there was a plague, and when it came to saying why there was a plague, it may be thought, is this Guan Yu's ghost revered? So at that time, perhaps Guan Yu began to be offered as a plague god. After a while after the offering, the plague passed, and he was still quite enlightened, so the wind began to spread.

Ancient armies were often a more superstitious place, because the army needed its own protective gods, so some armies believed in Guan Yu and worshipped Guan Yu.

Of course, there is a lot of contingency. For example, I worship Guan Yu, you worship Xiang Yu, today my team fought a battle with your team, and then I won, after I won, everyone will say, you see Guan Yu's spiritual experience, Xiang Yu is not spiritual. Just like this, Guan Yu's influence became more and more large, and by the Song Dynasty, the influence was already quite large.

In the Ming Dynasty, Guan Yu's position made another breakthrough progress. What's going on? It is because the army has a state-level festival, just like the civilian officials want to worship Confucius and worship King Wenxuan, and the military generals have to worship the king of Wucheng. Who was King Wucheng originally offering? It's Jiang Ziya. In the Tang Dynasty, Guan Yu also entered the Temple of King Wucheng, staying in the corridor, and was quickly pulled out again.

Anyway, King Wucheng originally offered Jiang Ziya, and in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict, which said very theoretically, that is, we should not worship Jiang Ziya, and it is not appropriate for Jiang Ziya to be called King Wucheng, because he is a Zhou Dynasty person, and the Zhou Dynasty does not have an emperor, and the Zhou Tianzi of the Zhou Dynasty is also called Wang. Jiang Ziya was a courtier of Zhou Tianzi, and he was such a person who understood the rules, how could he bear to be called king himself. Moreover, during the Zhou Dynasty, there was no clear division of civilian officials and military generals, and the great ministers were both civil and military, and they were all very good at it. Therefore, there is no need for us to build the Wucheng King Temple, so let's stop worshipping Jiang Ziya.

Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the Wucheng King Temple, that is, the festival of Jiang Ziya. What did the soldiers think after this was abolished? You can tell your opinion