As the saying goes, the romance of the Three Kingdoms is full of all kinds of whimsy. In Luo Guanzhong's works, there are many invincible heroes, military commanders and advisers full of fantastic ideas, as well as many magicians who are good at magic. As a historical novel in feudal times, this is also its limitation.
Top6: opening angle
The story of Romance of the Three Kingdoms begins with the story of the Yellow Scarf Uprising, so Zhang Jiao is the first demon to appear. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was the leader of the Yellow Scarf Army and the founder of Taiping Road. At that time, because of social corruption, political darkness and people's poverty, Zhang Jiao took advantage of the trend and put forward the slogan "Heaven will die, and the world will flourish at the age of 60" and launched the Yellow Scarf Uprising. After the failure of the uprising, Taiping Road basically disappeared.
Because the position of the author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the feudal ruling class, Zhang Jiao is naturally the object of relegation. In order to reflect the evil of the Yellow Scarf Army, Zhang Jiao was portrayed as a demon who could give orders and was good at Daoism. This description also highlights the difficulties and difficulties of various governors in quelling the Yellow turban insurrectionary uprising.
Top5: King Muru
King Mulu was a demon that Zhuge Liang met when he captured Meng Huo in the south. King Muru is the owner of South Mambana Cave. He is proficient in magic and can call the shots. His followers are tigers, leopards, wolves, poisonous snakes and scorpions. He has 30 thousand magic soldiers under his command, and he is very brave. I rode out on a giant elephant, and with the help of magic, I initially won some victories over the Shu army. But Zhuge Liang scared away the elephant with a huge beast full of burning things, and the elephant fell down and trampled to death.
The appearance of King Mulu reflects the limitations of the novel from two aspects. One is to make it more difficult for Zhuge Liang to March south, and then show Zhuge Liang's superiority. Even King Muru, who knows magic, is not Zhuge Liang's height, which shows how powerful Zhuge Liang is. Second, it reflects that the author, like traditional ideas, has certain discrimination against ethnic minorities. Southern minorities are usually called Naman, and they also know some mysterious magic, which is the same as the opening angle.
Top4: Yuji
Yu Ji is probably the most tragic demon in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He used to treat people in Wu Jun and Huiji and was very popular. But its treatment method is different from that of Hua Tuo. He uses magic. When Sun Ce was very angry, he found that the people turned a blind eye to him, the Lord of Jiang Dong, and worshipped Ji instead. Atheist Sun Ce was so angry that he wanted to behead Ji. Wait until Sun Ce beheaded Yu Ji on the grounds of demagoguery. The result was a great disaster and lost his life. Although the concubine died, she haunted Sun Ce's mind, until Sun Ce's soul was taken away by him, and she finally died together. Luo Guanzhong will arrange Yu Ji here, one is to add legend, the other is to find a decent story for the death of overlord Sun Ce, paving the way for Sun Quan's debut.
Top3: Zuo Ci
The description of Zuo Ci in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is even more incredible. Cao Cao summoned Zuo Ci, locked him in a stone house, sent someone to guard him, and refused to feed him for a year. It took a year to let him out, and he was still the same. Cao Cao thinks that there is no reason why people don't eat, and Zuo Ci doesn't eat for a year. This must be a cunning way to kill him. After Zuo Ci knew that Cao Cao wanted to kill Zuo Ci together, he asked Cao Cao to spare his life and let him go home. Zuo Ci first scratched his glass with a hairpin. The glass was divided into two halves, both of which were wine, several inches apart.
Later, Zuo Ci ran away, and Cao Cao ordered to expand the scope of the search and kill him if he was caught. Later, when someone saw Zuo Ci, they killed him and presented him to Cao Cao. Cao Cao was overjoyed. The body arrived. It turned out to be a bundle of thatch. Then they went to the place where Zuo Ci was killed to look for the body. The body was gone. Zuo Ci's appearance is purely fictional by the author, in order to express the legendary and interesting tasks in his works.
Top2: Guan Lu
Guan Ju was a warlock of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. When I am eight or nine years old, I like to look up at the stars every night. Isn't it a bit like Rolling Jr. in Children Counting Stars? As an adult, he is proficient in Zhouyi and good at physiognomy. He also has a great skill-proficient in bird language. There are many absurd legends about him, and he is regarded as the founder of divination by later generations.
According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Minister Xu Zhi recommended Guan Ju to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao summoned him to make Guan Ju an official, but Guan Ju refused. Guan Ju's answer is ambiguous when he wants Guan Ju to predict Wei's future. Cao Cao had to ask Guan Ju to divine the present situation of the dispute between the Three Kingdoms. Guan Ju divination said: A general of the State of Wu has died, and Shu will call him. At this moment, the spies came to report that Lu Su, the most important minister of Soochow, was dead, and that Ma Chao and Zhang Fei, the generals of Shu, were stationed in the county. Cao Cao got a fright and had to defy Guan Ju's divination ability.
Top 1: Zhuge Liang
Battle of Red Cliffs and Zhuge Liang are famous for borrowing from the east wind and are regarded as gods by everyone. There is no denying that Zhuge Liang is an excellent meteorologist. He has lived between the Yangtze River and Hanshui River for a long time and must be very familiar with the meteorological changes in the Yangtze River basin. The northwest wind is just a climate phenomenon, and the east wind can appear in the climate background. This is a weather phenomenon. In fact, he knew that there was an easterly wind between 1 1 and the 22nd of the month, but in order to deify himself, he deliberately dressed himself as a god and built a platform to pray for the wind.
Another demon of Zhuge Liang is that he pretends to be mysterious. Before marching to war, he often gave the generals some clever tricks or code words. However, I don't know that military action needs improvisation, not sticking to the so-called tricks, which not only makes subordinates blindly worship, but also imprisons their power to improvise. Mr. Lu Xun once said that the characterization in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms shows that Liu Beihou is fake and seems to be wise and close to the demon. In fact, Zhuge Liang is the first demon in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.