First, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Guan Yu is nine feet tall.

In The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu was described as nine feet tall, two feet long in temples, with a dragon crescent moon blade on his back and a weight of 88 kg. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, one foot was now 24.2 cm and nine feet high, so Guan Yu's height was about 2 meters 1. This height can be said to be relatively high, because in the Three Kingdoms period, in fact, everyone was not very tall. For example, Cao Cao is said to be only a little over one meter six. Zhuge Liang is only 1.8 meters tall and has stood out from the crowd.

It is hard to imagine the existence of Guan Yu's height of 2 meters 1 at that time, which is probably the feeling of standing out from the crowd. This height, coupled with Guan Yu's brilliant record, is just like a god of war. But The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is unreliable, it is just a literary novel. The content in him can be said to be three points true and seven points false, so Guan Yu is nine feet tall and unreliable, so he needs to study it with confidence.

Second, how tall is Guan Yu?

In fact, there is no description of Guan Yu's height in the history books. It is only mentioned in the History of the Three Kingdoms that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have the courage of ten thousand enemies. Of course, this enemy of ten thousand people only used exaggeration and metaphor. In fact, we can start with Zhuge Liang, who was more than one meter tall and was already very tall at that time. If Guan Yu is more than two meters tall, it will definitely be mentioned in the history books. After all, Zhuge Liang's height of 1.8 meters has been written into the history books.

Therefore, the height of Guan Yu should not exceed 1.9 meters. Guan Yu was a famous military commander in the Three Kingdoms period and killed many generals. The height of the military commander has an advantage in the battle. Judging from Guan Yu's record, Guan Yu's height should be higher than that of general military commanders, or at least not short. So I guess Guan Yu should be around 175 to 180. As for the romance that Guan Yu was nine feet long, it was basically invented by Luo Guanzhong to deify Guan Yu. Luo Guanzhong often does this kind of thing. Guan Yu's wine and Hua Xiong's beheading are all scribbled by him.