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There is a famous cross talk called Guan Gong vs Qin Qiong, which tells the story of Guan Gong and Qin Qiong's crossing. Crosstalk is full of irony.
After Qin Qiong's westward journey, he became a respected caretaker and the only one who guarded "home safety" for the people, and his position was almost equal to that of the God of the City God.
However, Guan Gong's position as Qin Qiong's "leapfrog partner" is unusual. After Guan Gong went to the Western Ocean, his status was "rising day by day". Starting from Liu Bei's small department, he gradually became comfortable in the three major workplaces of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and his position was almost equal to that of senior officials.
In Buddhism, Qin Qiong is a "guardian angel" and Bodhisattva Kalan. As far as Heaven is concerned, Qin Qiong is the king of the three realms. He also has an official position, and so is the God of Wealth. In Confucianism, Qin Qiong is a warrior and respected, and has reached an equal position with Confucius.
Guan Yu's personality charm soared after the Song Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, he was also a pawn beside Liu Bei, which meant "follower". But after the Song Dynasty, his heroic deeds spread widely and became more popular than his eldest brother Liu Bei.
In the Song Dynasty, Guan Yu naturally became the Yong 'an King. In the Yuan Dynasty, he was given an official title and a title by the emperor, and he became the Yong 'an King, demonstrating the spiritual meaning. In the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Qu was reborn, and different versions of this hero's glorious deeds spread among the people, and his reputation spread far and wide. Guan Yu's popularity among the people rose again.
For example, the most famous is Guan Hanqing's "Guan Wang Going to the Meeting Alone", which is widely circulated and deeply loved by the people.
By the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born at the grassroots level, was even more fond of Guan Yu, a hero, and even established Guan Gong Temple to worship his gods.
During the Yongle period, after Judy moved to Beijing, she built a large-scale Guandi Temple and awarded him the reputation of "helping heaven and protecting the country".
Guan Yu has reached the stage of assisting the jade emperor to protect the status of the Great Ming Dynasty, and it is conceivable that he is a noble god.
During the Ming Dynasty, the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms became popular and was deeply loved by the people, especially Guan Yu played a major role in it. Liu's popularity among the people is growing day by day, especially Guan Yu's loyalty and loyalty to Maicheng alone, which directly hit people's hearts.
Rulers of past dynasties preferred loyalty, and Guan Yu was one of the representatives of loyalty. His promotion and coronation can well reflect the ruler's pursuit of loyalty and serve as a warning to the following officials.
The reason why emperors of past dynasties kept conferring titles on Guan Yu was to imply that courtiers should be loyal subjects like Guan Yu.
Guan Yu was very popular with the royal family in both Buddhism and Taoism, and gradually turned his attention to him. Therefore, Guan Yu's position in both Buddhism and Taoism is very noble.
Liu Bei's theory that there are five tiger generals under his command mainly comes from the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In the story of the Three Kingdoms, it mainly refers to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Huang Zhong. Five people first appeared in the History of the Three Kingdoms, and were later collectively referred to as biographies.
There is also a situation in which the five sons of Wei and the twelve tiger ministers of Wu all appear in a biography, and then they are collectively referred to as a name.
Four people strolling on the fairy road
The army of the Five Tiger Generals in the middle of Shu still goes down in history after driving cranes to the west, and is worshipped by the people and becomes the supreme "God". But people and God have different ways, and God and God are treated differently. The most respected is Guan Yu.
What about the other four great gods?
Zhang Fei was respected before his death and worked part-time as a city god for some time after his death. I started with the fairy at the bottom, and then I was promoted. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, he was also honored as the Grand Inspector of Yin and Yang, whose duty was to take charge of the injustice of Yin and Yang in the world, so as to fight injustice and uphold justice.
His work is also very regular. He goes to the underworld every 30 years and to the dead every 35 years. Is a very leisure position, only work twice in 60 years, the rest of the time is almost the hobnobbing, and beauty * * * words.
There is another person, that is, Ma Chao, who was also deified after his voyage to the West. According to the literature, Ma Chao was listed as one of 72 generals in Buhler's reproductive organs. This should not be a senior official, but it is far from the official position of Lei Department in The Romance of Gods.
The official position of Lei Department has always been known for its confusion. There are still 36 days to keep before General 72. Guan Yu, Zhao Gongming, He Xiangu and others are among the immortals, but they all climbed up.
Ma Chao, this 72-year-old story can only be told by the Ming Dynasty. It probably imitates and refers to the legendary stories of thirty-six plough and seventy-two devils in the Water Margin.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Ma Chao also served as a gate valve as famous as Qin Qiong and Weichi Gong, which shows his important position among the people.
Next, let's talk about Zhao Yun. His position in the Three Kingdoms is obviously inferior to the other four. Most of the time, he played the role of Liu Bei's bodyguard, unlike Guan Yu, Ma Chao and Zhang Fei, who were brave and good at fighting, who always praised and belittled.
However, since the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms spread among the people, Zhao Yun's reputation has gradually spread, and "invincible" has gradually become his exclusive synonym.
After Zhao Yunxi's departure, he was honored by Taoism as the true king of Nangong. He was also honored as Emperor Zhao Sheng, enjoying a different kind of earthly fireworks.
However, Zhao Yun seems to be inseparable from the word "bodyguard" all his life. Even if you are immortal, it is also an auxiliary official position of the jade emperor, similar to a bodyguard. Pity him for his hard work all his life He was Liu Bei's bodyguard before his death, and he was also the bodyguard of the jade emperor's old son in heaven. He has a close relationship with the security industry.
No chance to seal the gods-General Huang
But the character Huang Zhong has the lowest sense of existence. Because he took refuge in Liu Bei late, there are few records about him in history.
It was not until Liu Bei became the queen of Hanzhong that Huang Zhong was made a post-general and a marquis.
Guan Yu was very indignant when he heard that he and Huang Zhong had become officials. Reluctantly, he said, "People with courage will never be with veterans!"
Probably Guan Yu himself didn't think that he was 59 years old when he said this, which was considered a high life in ancient times, and he himself quietly became a veteran.
Like the other four famous Five Tiger Generals, Huang Zhong later became somewhat "miserable". He was neither enshrined by later generations, nor was he given an official position, nor was he promoted to be a fairy. It's really sad.
Guan Yu, the former general, has become a respected warrior, and the temple built for him has been decorated with splendor. However, the later general Huang Zhong didn't even have a temple dedicated to him, and no one was in charge. In contrast, Huang Zhong really deserves sympathy.