Zhou Yu of the Three Kingdoms, whose name was Gong Jin, was born in Shuxian County (now Lujiang, Anhui Province) with a distinguished family. His grandfather Zhou Jing and uncle Zhou Zhong both served as Qiu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his father Zhou Yi also served as Luoyang Order. "If you are born with Yu, why are you born with Liang!" This was the last sentence spoken by Zhou Yu, who was seriously ill, and died suddenly. We are familiar with the image of Zhou Yu in the classic TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is a jealous and petty figure. It can be said that he is very stingy. He fought with Zhuge Liang all his life and was eventually killed by Zhuge Liang's "Three Qi Zhou Yu". Is the real Zhou Yu really such a stingy person? No, it's true, but it's the first Confucian general in ancient and modern times who is close to perfection.
Zhou Yu, a young boy, is handsome, well-built, well-read in poetry and proficient in the art of war. Although he is young, he has a great talent. Because he is the same age as Sun Ce, the son of Sun Jian of Dongwu, and they have the same interests, they are brothers and sisters. They fought together and were invincible, and finally dominated Jiangdong. The title of "Zhou Lang" was appointed when he was 24 years old.
After Sun Ce was assassinated, Zhou Yu led the troops to fight, expand territory and defend against foreign enemies. In Soochow, he gained the reputation of "asking Zhang Zhao in internal affairs and Zhou Yu in foreign affairs", which helped Sun Quan stabilize the changed regime. Later, when he crusaded against Jiangxia, Zhou Yu served as the front commander, and the general military commanders were relatively rough. For example, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu were like military commanders, while Zhou Yu was a military commander. Zhou Lang, at a young age, is in charge of a country's military power, winning the trust and love of the general, and he is talented and resourceful outside. That's really full of ambition. Think about how many of our twenties are still confused, and some of them have just left the society, but he has achieved great success, accompanied by beauty, and in our current words, he can be said to have reached the peak of his life! Don't say that people envy us now, even the ancients envy his life!
The famous battle "Battle of Red Cliffs" in the history of China, which really left him in the eternal fame, is that we are all familiar with Battle of Red Cliffs. There is only one real hero in Chibi War, that is, the young governor Zhou Yu. With his extraordinary courage and extraordinary strategy, he defeated Cao Cao's so-called "million troops" with a few tens of thousands of troops, creating a miracle in military history. Influenced by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, we have long attributed Battle of Red Cliffs's great achievements to Zhuge Liang, who fought with Confucianism, borrowed an arrow from a straw boat and borrowed the east wind. In fact, these stories are fictitious and do not exist. Kongming's battle only promoted the alliance between Sun and Liu.
Therefore, according to the artistic processing of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, our descendants misread Zhou Yu as a narrow-minded, petty and jealous person. In fact, Zhou Yu is not only stingy, but also a broad-minded and resourceful Confucian general. According to the official History of the Three Kingdoms, Zhou Yu was "a magnificent man with a large rate", and was a corporal of courtesy, which won everyone's love. The biography of Jiang Biao once recorded that Zhou Yu had conflicts with Cheng Pu, a general of Dongwu, who was familiar with him. He was an old hero of Dongwu and had outstanding military exploits. He was very unconvinced by Zhou Yu, who was always domineering and humiliated him. Later, Cheng Pu repented, but respected Zhou Yu, and told people around him that "associating with Gong Jin is like drinking sweet wine and unconsciously getting drunk". This shows that Zhou Yu is not as stingy as in the romance.
in the romance, Zhou Yu was grieved by Zhuge Liang three times, but Zhou Yu was not grieved. After the Red Cliff, Cao Cao was defeated and returned. Zhou Yu made many suggestions to Sun Quan, such as building a palace for Liu Bei in Soochow, softening Liu Bei with money and dispersing Liu Guanzhang, and finally turning it into his own use. Sun Quan did not adopt it. Finally, he gave a plan to move westward, attack Yizhou, seize Shu land, and interact with Ma Chao in the west. It's really jealous of talents, unlike the romance, it's not so angry, so whether it's anger or death, or there are other reasons.