Zhou Cang was born in poverty, bold and decisive, sincere and loyal. Forced by life in his early years, Zhou Cang often went to this Xiezhou area to buy smuggled salt, so he developed a pair of iron feet, two scuds and a good martial arts.

Zhou Cang was the commander-in-chief of General Zhang Bao, the yellow turban insurrectionary thief. After Zhang Bao's death, Zhou Cang and Pei of the Yellow Scarf Army led his troops to gather on the mountain. Guan Yu was riding a thousand miles near Woniu Mountain when he met Pei and led his troops to rob the horse. Zhou Cang ordered Pei to take his troops back to the mountain and follow Guan Yu alone. Since then, he has become a military commander around Guan Yu.

In the battle of Guan Yu guarding Jingzhou against Cao Wei's famous generals Yu Ban and Pound, he captured De in the water. Finally, Zhou Cang committed suicide after Guan Yu and his son were beheaded.

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In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is often mentioned that he followed Guan Yu, and it is common in operas that he carried a broadsword for Guan Yu and was Guan Yu's personal attendant. His statue is indispensable in Guandi temples all over the country.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms also said that he finally died in Maicheng. There is a small tomb of Zhou Cang near the site of Dongmaicheng in Dangyang, Hubei. On the tombstone, it is engraved with: the tomb of General Cang Cang, Hou Zhou, Han Lie.

But Zhou Cang is a legend, and the so-called "Zhou Cang's Tomb" is incidental. Zhou Cang was first born in the Three Kingdoms Pinghua in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, which was not recorded in the previous history books. Therefore, in the novel, this person is not written in. (Tian Xingjian's Warriors of the Three Kingdoms-Guan Yu)

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