There is a question in Zhihu: "Why do you like to read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?”
There is an answer that is:
I like the protagonists' vertical and horizontal shut-offs, galloping on the battlefield, and I also like the light of the supporting characters to hit the night with comets, and I like his truth the most, every detail can stand up to scrutiny, and the more in-depth the study, the more I feel that it reflects human nature.The human nature reflected in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a mirror that reflects ourselves nakedly.
The six taboos of life revealed in it are worthy of everyone's vigilance.
Arrogant and arrogant
* once said: "Don't boast at all, pride and complacency will overturn." Looking at many things in ancient and modern times, the success is due to humility and the defeat is due to luxury. ”
Xu You, a strategist of the Three Kingdoms, was well-read and wise, Kong Rong called him a "wise man", and Chen Shou called him "Wang Zuo's talent".
But such a talented man lost his life because of his arrogance.
After Xu You abandoned Yuan Shao and joined Cao Cao, he contributed to Cao Cao's plan to burn Wuchao and flood Jizhou by the Zhanghe River.
Cao Cao, who was still weak, won the Battle of Guandu, captured Jizhou, and successfully gained a firm foothold.
Xu You's strategy did play a huge role, but Cao Cao's soldiers also paid huge sacrifices.
On the contrary, Xu You thought that all of this was his personal work, and he began to flutter.
Even Cao Cao, he didn't pay attention to it.
When Cao Cao led the generals into Jizhou City, Xu Yu pointed to the city gate and boasted proudly:
Ah Hide, you can't let me enter this door?”
was called by his subordinates in public, Cao Cao was dissatisfied in his heart, and even the generals were indignant, thinking that Xu Yu didn't treat others as people.
After meeting the general Xu Chu, Xu You still boasted in a high-profile manner, and did not take Xu Chu, who was born and died and led the troops to fight, in his eyes, and insulted Xu Chu with great irony
Thou art and the others are all puffs, what a foot!”
Xu Chu couldn't stand Xu You's arrogance anymore, so he raised his sword and killed Xu You.
The generals impulsively killed the strategists, but Cao Cao did not blame Xu Chu.
In Cao Cao's heart, the arrogant Xu You, such an end seems to be more satisfactory.
The poor generation of strategists has not yet recovered from their arrogance, and they have become ghosts under the sword.
The Book of Rites says:
A gentleman is not arrogant, and he is not self-sufficient. ”
A person, no matter how talented he is, no matter how much credit he has made, should not be complacent.
A true wise man is one who can recognize himself at all times and find his own position.
Full of losses, humble benefits, the time is the way of heaven. ”
A person who acts in a low-key manner is in line with the "way of heaven" and is a real master.
Indecisive and indecisive
Yuan Shao was born in a famous family, handsome and chic, and talented.
When the power was at its strongest, Yuan Shao, as the leader of the Eighteenth Route Princes, had millions of troops, unified Hebei, and had the absolute strength to dominate the world.
But he has an Achilles' heel, which is indecision and lack of assertiveness.
A good hand of cards was played by him and ruined a good future.
He did not listen to Tian Feng and his frustration, nor did he take Xu You's advice, and even under distrust, he imprisoned Tian Feng first and then killed him, forcing Xu You to defect to Cao Cao.
Later, Yuan Shao listened to the plan of his subordinate Guo Tu, and instead of sending heavy troops to rescue Wuchao, he took the risk of attacking Cao's camp.
As a result, the army's grain and grass were burned, and his generals Gao Ran and Zhang He surrendered to Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao was completely defeated in the Battle of Guandu, and died of regret a few years later.
Cooking wine on heroes", Cao Cao commented on Yuan Shao sarcastically
Yuan Shaose is very timid, scheming and indecisive, doing big things and sparing his life, forgetting his life when he sees small profits, and he is not a hero. ”
Scheming and indecisive, it was decided that no matter how powerful Yuan Shao was, it would be difficult to achieve great things.
Just like Xiang Yu, he was originally powerful, but when he competed with Liu Bang for the world, he repeatedly made decisions, missed opportunities, and did not get rid of Liu Bang as soon as possible, causing Liu Bang's power to become bigger and bigger.
In the end, Xiang Yu ended up with a sad end of drawing his sword and killing himself.
When the interruption continues, it will be chaotic".
The opportunity of life is only a few steps at a critical time.
When you hesitate and wander, others have already run ahead of you, seized the opportunity, and won the initiative.
Be a man, assertive;Do things, dare to decide.
In many cases, the initiative in life lies in your opinions and decisions.
greedy for money and lustful, forgetting righteousness for profit
Lu Bu among the people, the red rabbit among the horses", Lu Bu's power is not blown.
Tiger Prison Pass three British battle Lu Bu, Puyang outside the city alone Cao Cao six fierce generals, Yuanmen shot halberds to show might. Let Lu Bu leave his name.
In the era of cold weapons that admired heroes, Lu Bu, who was so powerful, could have achieved a great cause.
But Lu Bu is greedy for money, lustful, forgetful of profit, and has no bottom line at all.
His original surname was Lu, his father died early, and he recognized the state assassin Shi Ding as his father-in-law.
In order to get the red rabbit horse, Lu Bu brutally killed his father-in-law Ding Yuan, who was as kind as a mountain, and recognized Dong Zhuo, who gave him the red rabbit horse and ** jewelry, as his godfather.
In order to get the peerless beauty Diao Chan and seek his own safety, Lu Bu killed his second father-in-law, Dong Zhuo.
When Lu Bu killed Dong Zhuo, he gritted his teeth and called Dong Zhuo an "old thief".
"Godfather" became an "old thief", and Lu Bu turned his face faster than turning a book.
If you are rich, you call your father, Lu Bu has no ethics, and he is ridiculed as a "three-surname house slave".
Lu Bu also attached himself to Yuan Shao, Liu Bei and others, but he forgot his righteousness when he saw profit, rebelled when he had the opportunity, and never paid attention to morality.
In the end, Lu Bu's conscience was lost, his generals betrayed collectively, and the Baimen Downstairs surrendered to Cao Cao.
Lu Bu's shamelessness and immorality in killing two fathers successively made Cao Cao no longer dare to keep Lu Bu, who was full of martial arts, under his command.
A dignified man of the moment was "hanged to death, and then beheaded" in this way.
Not greedy for money, going to **, not being shaken by the temptation, is the bottom line of being a man.
People who are greedy for money, lustful, and forgetful of righteousness, no matter how great their ability, are always despised by people and are destined to pay the price of blood.
Love money, take it in the right way;Be affectionate, stop polite.
Maintaining integrity is the best umbrella and the most noble cultivation in life.
Impatience and impulsiveness can lead to life
Zhang Fei, a famous general of the Shu Han Dynasty, is brave and good at fighting, loyal and chivalrous.
But this famous fierce general of the Three Kingdoms was stabbed to death by his own subordinates in the army.
It makes people sigh and sigh.
After Zhang Fei formed a rebellion with Liu Bei and Guan Yu Taoyuan, he followed Liu Bei loyally.
But his urgency has almost broken the big thing many times.
Guan Yu passed five levels and killed six generals, and when he returned to Liu Bei after all the hardships, the impatient Zhang Fei stabbed with a gun, and insulted Guan Yu for being "ungrateful", which made Guan Yu, who regarded loyalty as his life, indignant.
The brothers couldn't stand Zhang Fei's impulsive move, what a serious problem.
It's a pity that Zhang Fei didn't correct his bad temper at all.
When Zhang Fei was ordered to garrison Xiapi, he was whipped by the hot-tempered Zhang Fei because Cao Bao did not listen to the order to drink to his heart's content.
Cao Bao immediately contacted his son-in-law Lu Bu to take revenge, and soon took Xuzhou, a strategic place, so that Liu Bei lost his newly stable base and lived a life of exile again.
Zhang Fei, who took assisting Liu Bei as his own responsibility, caused Liu Bei to lose his foundation due to an impatient and impulsive behavior, and the lesson was extremely profound.
Zhang Fei did not learn his lesson, and still allowed his temper to flare up at will.
After Guan Yu was killed by Sun Quan, Zhang Fei, who was eager for revenge, asked Fan Jiang and Zhang Da to make 100,000 white flags and white armor within three days, otherwise they would be beheaded for public display.
The two generals, who could not complete the task, infiltrated Zhang Feijun's tent at night, cut off his head, and fled to Soochow overnight.
On the road of life, the real thing that is fatal is not vision, not ability, but emotion.
No matter how good you are, don't be impulsive.
It is better to be angry than to be angry, and temper determines blessing.
Only by being able to control your temper and deal with things calmly can you go further on the road of life.
Narrow-minded, jealous and jealous
Zhou Yu was a heroic man, proficient in military affairs and music, and was the most outstanding military commander of the Three Kingdoms period.
Sun Quan called him "Wang Zuo's capital", and Liu Bei called him "a civil and military strategy, a hero of ten thousand people." ”
The Battle of Burning Chibi under his command became a famous battle in history in which fewer won more, and directly laid the foundation for the three-point world.
But Zhou Yu has a fatal flaw, that is, he is small and jealous.
He didn't allow anyone to be smarter and more talented than him, and Zhuge Liang happened to be someone who was better than him, which made him feel hugely jealous.
Zhou Yu used the counter-plot to concoct the strategy of Jiang Ganzhong, but Zhuge Liang completely saw through it.
Zhou Yu could not tolerate the existence of this person who knew his plans everywhere, and was determined to get rid of him.
In the grass boat borrowing arrows, Zhou Yu thought that Zhuge Liang would not be able to get 100,000 arrows within three days, and tried to take the opportunity to kill Zhuge Liang.
Unexpectedly, Zhuge Liang used his precision of celestial phenomena to successfully complete the task.
In the process of resisting Cao by Sun and Liu's coalition forces, the more Zhou Yu came into contact with Zhuge Liang, the more he felt that Zhuge Liang was too eye-catching and unbearable.
Zhuge Liang used the "three qi" Zhou Yu to make Zhou Yu, who originally wanted to put Zhuge Liang to death, not only lost his wife and broke his soldiers, but was passively beaten everywhere, and finally died.
A generation of handsome talents, who died at the age of 36, makes people sigh.
Zhou Yu's exclamation of "both Shengyu and He Shengliang" is clearly narrow-minded and not courageous enough.
People who are jealous do not see the good of others and cannot tolerate others being stronger than themselves.
I hope you're good, but I don't want you to be too good", which restricts the pace of many people's progress.
In life, how wide the heart is, how big the stage is, and how much career can be achieved.
If you are jealous of others and are powerful, and you want to do everything possible to suppress others, you will either fail to achieve great things or you will destroy yourself.
If virtue is not matched, there will be disaster
Yuan Shu walked out of the wealthy family of the "Four Worlds and Three Princes" and won at the starting line at the beginning.
Before the chaos in the world, Yuan Shu had been promoted to Henan Yin and Hu Ben Zhonglang generals, and the level was quite high.
After the eunuch troubles, Yuan Shu was forced by Dong Zhuo to flee to Nanyang County.
Relying on the special status of the wang family, Yuan Shu enjoyed the fruits brought by Sun Jian, occupied the Nanyang area, and his power became very large for a time.
It is a pity that Yuan Shu did not apply benevolence and virtue, did many evils, and finally died in Huangquan.
For the sake of his own power, he not only disrespected his brother Yuan Shao, but also united with Gongsun Zan and Tao Qian to beat him.
He lacked integrity and promised to appoint Sun Ce, who had made great achievements, to important positions, but repeatedly broke his promise.
As a descendant of the royal favor, Yuan Shu not only did not contribute to the Kuangfu Han family, but was the first to be a thief and became the emperor in Huainan.
After Yuan Shu became the emperor, his life was even more extravagant and extravagant.
There are groups of wives and concubines in the harem, all wearing Luo Qili costumes, and there are all kinds of food in the palace, and the pleasures are endless.
He disregarded the livelihood of the people, changed the capital, increased taxes, and many people died of hunger, and there was a tragedy of cannibalism.
In the end, Yuan Shu, who betrayed his relatives and left, vomited blood and died on the way to escape, which corresponded to Cao Cao's judgment of "dry bones in the grave" in his early years.
Pei Songzhi, a historian of the Southern Song Dynasty, commented on Yuan Shu:
Yuan Shu has no merit, the goodness of the fine medium, and is rampant in the time, arrogant and self-respecting, solid and righteous husband, and the same disease of people and ghosts. ”
It is ridiculous and pitiful that the overlord of the dignified generation has been criticized by historians for being so useless.
The ups and downs of life seem to be casual, but in fact there are causes and effects:
Those who have moral cultivation will always have a certain reward;
Those who are not worthy of virtue will eventually be punished.
Virtue is blessed;Without virtue, disaster will come.
Gao Xiaosong said: "Everyone's life comes with their own script. ”
A "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is written about a grand historical situation, but what is revealed behind it is one tragicomedy of life after another.
And everyone's life has a specific trajectory, with unique human characteristics.
Reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", you not only understand history, but also understand the profound and complex human nature.
to know what we should keep and what we should get rid of.
can also deduce a more wonderful life script on the road of life.