Why did Guan Yu, a famous three-country star who eventually became a national belief?

Why did Guan Yu, a famous three-country star who eventually became a national belief? This is the success of literature, specifically the success of The Romance of Three Kingdoms.

Since the publication of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, no one does not know the Romance of the Three Kingdoms; No one doesn't like The Romance of Three Kingdoms; There is no one who can't tell the story of the romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Among the stories in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu's story is especially talked about.

Guan Yu finally became a famous believer of the Three Kingdoms because Guan Yu was different from other figures.

Guan Yu has three remarkable characteristics, namely loyalty, righteousness and artistry.

The three remarkable characteristics of loyalty, righteousness and art make Guan Yu a social god and a totem worshipped by the whole society.

Here, the old man Shan Ye briefly talks about the reasons why Guan Yu became a famous soldier in the Three Kingdoms from three aspects: loyalty, righteousness and skill.

First, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms played up Guan Yu's loyalty and catered to the needs of the ruling class.

Guan Yu's loyalty to Liu Bei is the core content of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Liu Bei was driven out of Xuzhou by Cao Cao, and Guan Yu became a prisoner.

Guan Yu surrendered to Cao Cao with Liu Bei's two women, and one of the conditions put forward was that he would not surrender to Cao Cao.

Guan Yu's surrender to Cao Cao met the needs of the ruling class.

The ruling class can use this condition to render Guan Yu's loyalty and achieve the goal of cultivating loyal ministers and dutiful sons.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in order to better achieve the propaganda effect, the story of Guan Yu's passing five customs and killing six generals was compiled to highlight Guan Yu's unswerving loyalty to Liu Bei.

It is more in line with the interests of the ruling class to compile such stories in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

In fact, Guan Yu surrendered to Cao Cao, and the content introduced in the History of the Three Kingdoms is very limited.

Guan Yu's "History of the Three Kingdoms" records: "Cao Gong captured the feather and returned, worshiping as a partial general, with deep ceremony."

There is also no story of Guan Yu going through five hurdles and beheading six generals after leaving Cao Cao. There can't be such a story, because Cao Cao's people tried to kill Guan Yu when Guan Yu left.

Cao Cao said, "Each is his own master, and you can't chase him."

Second, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms plays up Guan Yu's benevolence and caters to the needs of civil society.

Guan Yu's benevolence and righteousness is also the key content of The Romance of Three Kingdoms.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms began with the "Taoyuan Heroes Banquet", and the oath of "not being born on the same day in the same year and dying on the same day in the same year" has touched countless people with lofty ideals in the United States for thousands of years. In fact, there is no such song in the official history of the Three Kingdoms.

Later, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms interpreted the story of catching and releasing Cao, which was not recorded in the official history of the Three Kingdoms.

The story about Battle of Red Cliffs in the reflection is very simple, just a few words.

The specific content is that Cao Cao and Sun Liu joined forces to fight in Chibi. Cao Cao's soldiers died seriously because of the epidemic. Zhou Yu set fire to the ship. Cao Cao first set fire to the ships around him, and then retreated to Nanjun with his troops. Sun and Liu joined forces to pursue the Confederate army.

There is no story of catching and releasing Cao.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms compiles the story of Guan Yu's escape from Cao, aiming at highlighting Guan Yu's righteousness.

Guan Yu's righteousness is the spiritual sustenance that the Li people who have lived in the bottom society for thousands of years yearn for.

The broad masses of Li people living at the bottom of society were brutally exploited and oppressed by feudal rulers. They hope to communicate with each other through the quality of benevolence and righteousness and jointly deal with feudal rulers.

Third, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms plays up Guan Yu's art and caters to the social needs of creating gods.

There is no doubt that Guan Yu is skilled in martial arts, but the relevant stories we read from The Romance of the Three Kingdoms are all aimed at highlighting Guan Yu's artistic creation in martial arts.

For example, "warm wine to chop Hua Xiong" is intended to highlight Guan Yu's invincible martial arts. It's a pity that the hero who really beheaded Hua Xiong was not Guan Yu, but Sun Quan's father Sun Jian.

For example, "Three British Wars against Lyu3 bu4" is also a romantic film, intended to highlight the bravery of Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms compiled these stories, aiming to show Guan Yu's superb martial arts, set up idols for the society and give spiritual sustenance to the people.

To sum up, Guan Yu became a national star in the Three Kingdoms period because Guan Yu's characteristics met the needs of all walks of life.

Guan Yu's loyalty meets the needs of feudal rulers; Guan Yu's righteousness meets the needs of the broad masses of Li people; Guan Yu's art meets the psychological needs of mass idolatry.

Therefore, such idols, idols needed by all walks of life, naturally became the national stars of the three countries.