How can there be brightness when there is beauty?

Story synopsis:

Yi Qi Zhou Yu

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" "Chapter 51 Cao Ren battles the Dongwu soldiers Kong Ming Yi Qi Zhou Gongjin": "Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang agreed that if Zhou Yu failed to capture Nanjun, Liu Bei would go to capture it again. Zhou Yu failed to capture Nanjun the first time and was injured, and then used his trick to defeat Cao Bing. However, Zhuge Liang took the opportunity to capture Nanjun and other places, without breaking the contract and seizing the territory. "Zhou Yu was so angry that his golden sores burst open and he fell off his horse.

Erqi Zhou Yu

After the death of Liu Bei's wife, Sun Quan followed Zhou Yu's plan and pretended to betroth his sister Sun Shangxiang to Liu Bei, hoping to trick Liu Bei into coming to Soochow and then kill her. . Unexpectedly, Wu Guotai (Sun Quan's mother) fell in love with Liu Bei. Not only did she not allow Sun Quan to kill him, she actually wanted to betroth Sun Shangxiang to him.

Zhou Yu wanted to keep Liu Bei away from Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others for a long time, and used his words to confuse Liu Bei so that he would lose his ambition to conquer the world, but he failed. Zhuge Liang used a trick to let Liu Bei return to Jingzhou safely, and let Zhou Yu fall into an ambush. He also asked the soldiers to ridicule Zhou Yu, "Zhou Lang's clever plan to calm the world, he lost his wife and lost his troops." Zhou Yu was so angry that the golden sore burst open again. This is the origin of the current saying "if you lose your wife, you lose your soldiers".

Three Qi Zhou Yu

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" "Chapter 56 Cao Cao's Banquet on the Bronze Bird Terrace Kong Ming Three Qi Zhou Gongjin": Liu Bei borrowed the nine counties of Jingxiang from Soochow , trying to develop and strengthen themselves. However, Soochow was afraid that raising tigers would pose a threat to itself when Liu Bei became stronger. They repeatedly asked him to return Jingzhou. Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang claimed that they would return Jingzhou after capturing Xichuan.

But the delay in capturing Xichuan made Zhou Yu angry and frustrated, so he came up with the idea of ??passing through Jingzhou to help Liu Bei capture Xichuan, because if he wanted to capture Xichuan, he had to pass through Jingxiang. However, Zhou Yu actually wanted to capture Jingzhou, but this plan failed Zhuge Liang saw through this and Zhou Yu was surrounded. Zhou Yu was so angry that his old injuries recurred, and he died.

The story comes from the expanded information of Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms" in the Western Jin Dynasty

Writing background:

"Three Kingdoms", one of the twenty-four histories, is composed of the historiography of the Western Jin Dynasty Written by Chen Shou, a chronicler of the Three Kingdoms period in China, it records the biographical country histories of Cao Wei, Shu Han and Dong Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. It is one of the most highly regarded "first four histories" among the Twenty-Four Histories. At that time, there were already historical records of Wei and Wu, such as Wang Shen's "Wei Shu" compiled by the official, Yu Guan's "Wei Lue" privately written by Yu Guan, and Wei Zhao's "Wu Shu" compiled by the official. These three books should be the basic basis for Chen Shou's basis. Material.

The Shu Han Dynasty did not have the position of historian, so it collected it on its own and only obtained fifteen volumes. Chen Shou began to serve in the Shu Han Dynasty, but was marginalized by the eunuch Huang Hao. After the Shu Han Dynasty surrendered to the Wei Dynasty, he successively served as a writer. In his later years, he was demoted many times and criticized many times. After ten years of hardship, he completed the masterpiece "Three Kingdoms" in biographical history.

Judging from the length, "Book of Wei" accounts for about one-half of the whole book, "Book of Wu" accounts for about one-third, and "Book of Shu" accounts for nearly one-sixth. This may be It depends on the amount of historical data. Before Chen Shou wrote "Three Kingdoms", some historical works about Wei and Wu had appeared, such as Wang Chen's "Wei Shu", Yu Huan's "Wei Lue", Wei Zhao's "Wu Shu", etc., which can be used by Chen Shou. Touhou reference materials. However, there were no historians in the Shu Han Dynasty, and only Chen Shou collected them as an official in Shu Han. This resulted in a lack of historical materials in the Shu Han Dynasty.

"Three Kingdoms" draws on carefully reviewed materials. The author has carefully examined and carefully selected historical facts. He has also strictly reviewed unreliable information and refrained from making rash comments or writing. Although this makes "Three Kingdoms" characterized by concise writing, it also causes the shortcoming of insufficient historical records of key figures.

About the author:

Chen Shou (233-297), courtesy name Chengzuo, was born in Anhan (now Xichong County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province) in the Western Jin Dynasty. Historian of the Western Jin Dynasty. Although he was rarely eager to learn, he was determined to study history, and he conducted in-depth research on historical books such as Shangshu, Chunqiu, Shiji, and Hanshu. He studied under Qiao Zhou (an astronomer of the Shu Kingdom), a scholar from the same county, and served as the official historian of Guan Ge during the Shu Han Dynasty.

At that time, the eunuch Huang Hao had exclusive power, and all ministers were willing to obey. Chen Shou was dismissed many times because he refused to submit to Huang Hao.

After entering the Jin Dynasty, he successively held the positions of author, secretary, and censor. In 280, the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Dongwu and ended the split. Chen Shou was forty-eight years old at the time and began to write "Three Kingdoms".