A real Zhou Yu in history

In the Three Kingdoms era, heroes competed with each other, heroes emerged in large numbers, and there were endless stories to tell. Today Le Hu also dares to talk about one of the heroes - Zhou Yu.

I believe that many bloggers, like Le Hu, mainly know about Zhou Yu, a historical figure, from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by Luo Guanzhong of the Ming Dynasty. The famous saying "When Yu is born, how can Liang be born" outlines this kind of Zhou Yu: a typical example of jealousy of talents, jealousy of talents, and narrow-mindedness. He tried every means to murder Zhuge Liang, who was more intelligent than himself, and wanted to get rid of him quickly. "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" describes the series of battles of wits and tactics between Yu and Liang before and after the Battle of Chibi in a very vivid and detailed way, and expresses Zhuge Liang's "smart" status in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to the extreme.

Mr. Lu Xun's evaluation of Zhuge Liang in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is: "Much wise but close to a demon." In folklore, Zhuge Liang is even more capable of calling upon the wind and rain, with miraculous plans. In fact, most of Zhuge Liang's legendary military exploits are fictitious by the author, and they are all fictitious. Some of them even plunder the beauty of others. For example, in the famous Battle of Chibi in the novel, in addition to "borrowing arrows from a straw boat" is a story passed on to Zhou Yu, other wonderful plots such as "tongues with the Confucian scholars", "intelligence to stimulate Zhou Yu", "bitter flesh plot", and "borrowing the east wind" are all attributed to the author Make up fiction. The subsequent empty city plan plucked Cao Cao's "fruits of victory." In addition, Zhou Yu is a young student on the drama stage, while Zhuge Liang is dressed as an old student, but Zhuge Liang in history is 6 years younger than Zhou Yu.

The historical truth between Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu is far from being as simple as age dislocation. So, what was the real Zhou Yu like in history? Le Hui tried to restore history. Portrait of Zhou Yu (picture from the Internet)

1. Zhou Yu is a famous example of "tall, rich and handsome"

Zhou Yu (175-210), named Gongjin, was known as "Mei Zhoulang" , a native of Shu County, Lujiang County (now Shucheng County, Lujiang, Anhui Province), was a famous general of the Soochow Group and an outstanding military strategist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, together with Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and Sima Yi, he was also known as the Wolong, Phoenix, Xiaoling, Linzhonghu.

In the history book "Three Kingdoms", Mr. Chen Shou commented on Zhou Yu like this: "Ying Jun and extraordinary talent", "Wang Zuo's talent", "Young and talented", "Civil and military skills, the hero of ten thousand people" ", and praised him: Politically, he was far-sighted and loyal; militarily, he was "bold and resourceful", wise and courageous; in terms of personality, he was "magnificent in temperament" and elegant in taste. From this we can get a glimpse of Zhou Yu being an extraordinary figure of his time! Zhou Yu is a famous second-generation official and second-generation rich man. He came from a famous family, his father was an official in Luoyang, and his ancestor was a Taiwei. That Sun Jian and Sun Ce were able to stay at Zhou Yu's house at that time also proved that his family was well off and he was definitely a wealthy family. Zhou Yu received a good education since he was a child, and was highly knowledgeable and intelligent. He was considered one of the best among his peers at that time. Zhou Yu was tall and handsome, and was very famous at the time. It is said that Zhuge Liang is 1.85 meters tall, and Zhou Yu is not much different. Zhou Yu practiced sword dancing since he was a child. He has certain martial arts skills and extraordinary courage. Later, he refused all kinds of attempts to win over Yuan Shu and others, and readily accepted the invitation of Sun Ce, the second-generation official, and devoted himself to serving Soochow. He did not strategize and make plans from behind like Zhuge Liang, but directly led his troops to the front and fought hard.

And Zhou Yu is older than Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms