Before knowing Liu Bei, was Guan Yu really just a jujube vendor?

Now there is a common saying that Guan Yu, a figure in the Three Kingdoms, had made a living before he met Liu Bei. Many people say that he sells dates. Whether the source of this statement is reliable, some people think that since it is selling dates, it should be more low-key. Why do you have to show that kind of "arrogance"? What I want to clarify today is this problem.

Since ancient times, heroes have never asked the source. Even though Guan Yu really sells dates, he was pregnant with unparalleled martial arts before selling dates, and he was not an idle ordinary villager. Moreover, the evaluation of historical figures has its own advantages and disadvantages, which is not perfect. Guan Yu's selling dates was objectively just a means of livelihood forced by life at that time, just like Zhuge Liang plowed the land between the dragon mothers in Nanyang, Zhu Yuanzhang sold sour plum soup, and Jiang Ziya was just an old man who fished straight by the Weihe River, even a man who couldn't even fish ... However, these people were not brilliant at first, and even some ordinary people who were good at life were given power behind these customs. Once the opportunity comes, so does Guan Yu.

△ Coincidence Guan Yu followed Liu Bei to conquer the world.

The origin of Guan Yu's martial arts: the online version of "Guan Yu stealing dates and practicing kung fu" is sheer nonsense.

It is precisely because many things in Guan Yu's life have no history to test. What happened later was that everyone thought that Guan Yu only sold dates (the specific statement of Guan Yu selling dates came from a cross talk), and he could not find any master he had worshipped before. How could he be so good at martial arts at the beginning of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms? He even became good brothers with Liu Bei. In this regard, everyone is extremely surprised.

Where did Guan Yu's martial arts come from before he met Liu Bei? In everyone's various speculations, on the internet, a sentence has occupied the public's field of vision, and many people take it seriously and often talk about it.

Specifically: Guan Yu killed a bully before, and finally fled to Zhuo Jun to make a living by selling dates. Moreover, because Guan Yu was a criminal before, it was unlikely that he would wholesale dates himself. Because he was afraid of being discovered by officers and men, he had to steal dates from the landlord to sell them. Later, in the long-term training process of stealing dates and beating dates, Guan Yu practiced a set of martial arts stunts for assassination because of the long repetition of such actions as picking dates and beating dates. In addition, even why Guan Yu always wears green suits has become a protective color designed for the convenience of stealing dates.

As mentioned above, just listening to the story seems interesting, but when you think about it carefully, it is ridiculous. Although Guan Yu is a guilty man and a fugitive, since he can sell dates without fear of being discovered, why not sell them nearby instead of stealing them every day? So nobody will find out? In this case, the famous Guan Jun in history is really a bit unfair.

Of course, maybe at this time, some people will still say that it is stealing dates to sell, which has been mentioned in many articles. Then I can only tell you that the origin of Guan Yu stealing dates actually comes from a cross talk joke. The text of this crosstalk is as follows:

△ Crosstalk: Tian Lihe Wang Wenyu's "Comment on Guan Yu"

Is it enough to make people laugh after reading the above content? So what I want to say here is that no matter whether it is true that the content of Guan Yu's martial arts mentioned in the cross talk jokes comes from stealing dates every day, cross talk is cross talk, and the essence of cross talk comes from simple life, which makes life funny. If people are amused, then the compilation of this cross talk joke is almost unsuccessful. Therefore, the story of Guan Yu stealing and selling dates can be heard as a joke, but it can't be used as historical data or even as an expert's speculation.

What's more, in the original Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the CCTV version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, we can't find out what happened to Guan Yu selling dates.

Guan Yu's opening career, the original "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" said:

"When I was drinking, I saw a big man pushing a car and stopping at the door of the store ... Liu Bei looked at him: he was nine feet long and had a beard of two feet; His face is like a heavy jujube ... Xuande invited him to sit with him and knock his name. The man said, "My name is Guan Mingyu, and my words are immortal. Later, it was changed to Yunchang, and Hedong was also a good man. I killed you and fled the Jianghu for five or six years because we were strong and powerful. I heard that the army was recruiting thieves here, so I came to recruit them. " .

Judging from the appearance of Guan Yu's original work, it describes "pushing a car", and Guan Yu is pushing dates in the car, which is not very clear. It's just that crosstalk performers guessed it from here. Of course, officials can also guess that Guan Yu's car is pushing a load of potatoes, at least no one can prove otherwise. So, not sure.

Then, in the CCTV version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu also sells mung beans.

The origin of Guan Yu's martial arts: Guan Yu's strict "self-creation skills" and "learning from others" have their own factors.

So how did Guan Yu's martial arts come from? As follows, let's take a look at the most likely places.

First, Guan Yu's good martial arts is related to his previous professional experience. He taught himself martial arts.

Although there is no information before Guan Yu met Liu Bei from the official history, there is a saying from folklore. In folklore, Guan Yu was not called Guan. His biological father is a local famous doctor Xia and his biological mother is Hu. His biological father was killed by a local bully and his mother died. Guan Yu fought with his adoptive father Guan Chengzhong to sell tofu since he was a child. Later, his adoptive father saw that he was tall and burly, so he sent him to learn blacksmith. During that time, Guan Yu built himself a 50-catty broadsword and began to learn martial arts by himself. Within a few years, Guan Yu developed a good martial arts.

△ About self-learning martial arts

It is not impossible for Guan Yu to teach himself martial arts. For example, Zhang Sanfeng, a master of Tai Chi, woke up after suffering in his own life and created his own Tai Ji Chuan according to the characteristics of water. Moreover, there are many such examples in history. However, all this requires me to have the talent of a master, so that I can learn from enlightenment and create my own skills.

Second, Guan Yu was born into a family of literati, and his family style was forbidden. Some experts gave advice on his martial arts.

Although it is not recorded in the official history, during the reign of Kangxi in the early Qing Dynasty, Dani, the king of Xiezhou, excavated the tomb brick of Guan Yu when excavating and repairing the ancient well.

According to the written records on the tomb brick, Guan Yu's grandfather called Guan Yu and asked him. Born in Geng Yin in the second year of Han Yongyuan, he lived in Baochi, Changping Village, Jiezhou (now Jiezhou Town, Shanxi Province). According to records, he was "loyal to Mu Shandao" and often admonished his son with Yi and Chunqiu.

Inferred from this data, the Guan family is a family of literati with strict family style. On the premise of Guan Yu's "worshiping wood and Taoism", there is no lack of contact with some Taoist masters outside. Therefore, Guan Yu was born tall and burly, intelligent and studious. It is very likely that his father will find a Taoist priest to be his teacher and show him his martial arts. Therefore, he often admonishes his son with Yi and Chunqiu. Otherwise, there was no family background to do details since childhood, and Guan Yu's literary talent and martial arts could not be achieved under ordinary circumstances.

△ Strict family style laid the foundation for Guan Yu's literary talent and martial arts.

Thirdly, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms mentioned that Guan Yu often read Spring and Autumn Annals to verify the possibility of his self-study.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms mentions that Guan Yu "is good at reading Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals, and can read like a stream." . It can be seen that Guan Yu's past family background is at least not too bad, and it must be a scholarly family. He is a man with a cultural background, which is definitely not as simple as "Guan Yu is a jujube seller" as mentioned in the title, but because of some bumpy life, he has fallen here and is helpless. But what is certain is that even if he fled to Zhuozhou to sell dates, it is true, but he was pregnant with peerless martial arts before selling dates, otherwise he would not have killed a bully with his hands. Therefore, it is a joke to steal dates and sell them to practice martial arts.

△ "Taoyuan Sanjieyi" has achieved the eternal story of Shu Han Jiangshan.

Conclusion:

Generally speaking, even though Guan Yu did sell jujubes during his acquittal, his martial arts had come to fruition before selling jujubes. Then, when the hero should make his fortune, Guan Yu met Zhang Fei, met Liu Bei's "Three sworn relationships in Taoyuan", and finally achieved the eternal story of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms! As for Guan Yu's "selling dates" because of "pride" and finally "losing Maicheng", even if he is not "proud", he may not lose Maicheng. It can only be said that in the past five thousand years, many romantic figures in history have turned their heads and paid only a joke.