Zhang Fei kills pigs and Guan Yu sells dates. Why are their martial arts so powerful?

The reason why the subject thinks that Zhang Fei kills pigs and Guan Yu sells dates is completely influenced by China's four classical novels, Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In fact, Luo Guanzhong wrote this because of the need of the plot of the novel "Taoyuan Sanjieyi". Zhang Fei didn't actually kill pigs, and Guan Yu didn't sell dates.

In fact, you were cheated by the novel. Zhang Fei was not born to kill pigs in history. In real history, Zhang Fei is a man with a lot of money. Zhang Fei himself has received a good education, and he is not the black and hard image we know. On the contrary, Zhang Fei in real history is a handsome man, who reads as many books as others. Maybe his image on the battlefield should have left a deep impression on us.

Guan Yu may not be the sentient and righteous warrior image we know in the novel. In real history, Guan Yu was a warrior and very headstrong. His failure in Maicheng is related to his own conceit and lack of political mind.

So what we know about Zhang Fei and Guan Yu is actually quite different from the real image in history. In the novel, either a character is whitewashed, such as Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang, or a person is smeared. For example, a handsome Zhang Man became ugly, and a generation of lean Cao Cao became a generation of adulterers.

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The subject should not regard the image in the novel as his own image, but should study history. If he wants to really understand history, he must take a look at how the real history books are recorded, and historical novels like The Romance of the Three Kingdoms can only be lively.