"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a history book, and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is based on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", a book made of imagination and artistic processing. It is precisely because "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is ** that many popular stories in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are fake.
One of the fake stories
The story of "Zhuge Liang is angry with Zhou Yu" is fake
In ** "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhou Yu was angry to death by Zhuge Liang.
Before Zhou Yu died, he cried several times: God, since you gave birth to me to save the world, why did you give birth to Zhuge Liang to defeat me? (Both Shengyu and He Shengliang).
The relevant original text of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is like this:
After Zhou Yu finished reading, he sighed and called Wu Hou to take paper and pen left and right to make a book. It is the gathering of generals who said: "I don't want to serve the country with loyalty, but the destiny of heaven is gone." You and other good deeds Wu Hou, together a great cause. "Speechless, faint. Slowly waking up again, looking up to the sky and sighing: "Both Shengyu and He Shengliang!" He screamed several times and died. He was thirty-six years old ......”
However, this is also false.
In real history, Zhou Yu's death is actually like this: Zhou Yu returned to Jiangling, where he was stationed, after a meeting with Sun Quan in Jingkou, and died of illness while passing through Baqiu (now Yueyang, Hunan).
As for what disease Zhou Yu died of, the historical records are not detailed, but many historians believe that Zhou Yu's death may be related to the delayed onset of arrow wound infection.
In short, Zhou Yu died of illness, not by Zhuge Liang.
In the film and television drama, Zhou Yu was so angry with Zhuge Liang that he died, this incident is false in history, and Zhou Yu died of illness.
You can refer to the history book "Three Kingdoms, Wu Shu, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Lu Meng's Biography Nine":"Yu returned to Jiangling, for the sake of dressing, and the road to Baqiu died of illness. ”
It can be seen that Zhou Yu died of illness.
Fake story number two
The story of "Guan Yu went to the meeting alone" is fake
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" said that Guan Yu was very heroic, carrying a big knife, alone, to the enemy Lu Su's military camp to negotiate with Lu Su.
This is the famous story of "going to the meeting alone".
However, the story is also fake.
Guan Yu went to the meeting alone, but unfortunately this incident is also false in history.
According to the records of the official history books: This negotiation was indeed an invitation issued by Lu Su, but the location of the negotiation was not Lu Su's military camp, but the location of a third party.
Moreover, Lu Su and Guan Yu agreed: the men and horses on both sides must be a hundred steps away, stop and move, and then, Lu Su with a knife, Guan Yu with a knife, the two of them walked alone to the middle ground to carry out negotiations.
It wasn't Guan Yu who threw himself into the net and ran to Lu Su's military camp to negotiate. Guan Yu is not so brave or stupid.
The accurate statement is: Guan Yu went to the meeting alone, and Lu Su also went to the meeting alone, neither of them met with each other on their own territory, and both sides brought men and horses to guard behind, it can be said that the two people are as heroic, but there is no such thing as Guan Yu being more heroic than the enemy (Lu Su).
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a serious rewriting of the plot and a serious exaggeration of the facts, and its exaggeration is also to boast about Guan Yu's "brave" image, and the ultimate goal is to make the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" more vivid.
Reference: "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Shu, Lu Su Biography": "Prepare for the news, return to the public security, and send Yu to fight for the three counties." Hold Yiyang and reject Yu. Invite Yu to meet, and each garrison and horse will go up a hundred steps, but please ask the general to meet with a single sword. Su Yin blamed several Yu and said: "The country originally borrowed the Qing family with land, and the Qing family's army was defeated from afar, so there was no way to do it." Now that he has gained the state, he has no intention of returning it, but he asks for three counties, and he does not obey his orders. Before the words were finished, a person sat down and said: "The husband of the land, only the ears of virtue are there, how often there is!" He said solemnly, and his words were very serious. Yu Caodao said: "This is a national matter, how do people know!" "Eyes let it go. Prepare to cut the Hunan water as the boundary, so the army ......”
Fake Story No. 3
The story of "straw boats borrowing arrows" is fake
* "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is adapted, processed, and fictionalized on the basis of the historical book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and in the history book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is no story of Zhuge Liang borrowing arrows from a grass boat at all.
In other words, Zhuge Liang's deeds of "borrowing arrows from grass boats" do not exist in real Chinese history, it only exists in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" created by Luo Guanzhong, a family member in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.
Zhuge Liang's grass boat borrowed arrows, which is also fake and does not exist in history.
In fact, there are indeed people who have done "straw boats borrowing arrows" in history, but that person is not Zhuge Liang, but Sun Quan.
There are many historical materials about Sun Quan's "straw boat borrowing arrows", and I will give you an example. For example, the historical book "Wei Luo" records:
The right to take a big ship to watch the army, the minister's bow and crossbow are indiscriminately fired, the arrow hits his ship, the ship is overturned, the right to return to the ship, and the arrow is equal to the ship, and it is returned. ”
This passage records such an event:
Sun Quan took a big ship to reconnoiter Cao Cao's military situation, Cao Cao asked his subordinates to shoot arrows, so, ten thousand arrows were fired at once, all shot on Sun Quan's boat, the ship was almost capsized by this "arrow rain", so Sun Quan ordered to turn the bow of the ship, so that the other side of the ship accepted the "arrow rain", so that both sides of the big ship were arrowed, the weight was averaged, and the ship was stable, so Sun Quan ordered to leave. ”
This is the story of Sun Quan's "straw boat borrowing arrows" in real history.
Obviously, Luo Guanzhong read the paragraph of Sun Quan's "Straw Boat Borrowing Arrows" from "Wei Luo", so Luo Guanzhong transferred this story to Zhuge Liang, processed the protagonist into Zhuge Liang, and then wrote it into his ** "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Fake Story No. 4
The "Empty City Scheme" story is fake
The story of Zhuge Liang's "big empty city plan" is also fake and fictional.
The synopsis of the so-called "Zhuge Liang's big empty city plan" is like this:
Sima Yi sent troops to attack Shu, Zhuge Liang told the officers and soldiers in the city to evacuate and retreat, he deliberately opened the city gate, and Zhuge Liang himself was generous, sat on the city tower, and played the piano for music.
Sima Yibing came to the city, looked up, this enemy of Shu State, even the city gate was not closed, and Zhuge Liang, this kid, was actually a good swimmer, playing the piano on the city tower!
Seeing that the other party was so calm and calm, Sima Yi calculated: There must be a large number of ambush soldiers, and the heroes don't suffer immediate losses, so I'd better withdraw.
As a result, Sima Yi withdrew his troops and did not dare to fight. was deceived by Zhuge Liang.
This play has always been talked about by the world and is considered a typical case of Zhuge Liang's superb wisdom.
However, this story is actually fake and fictional, and in the history book "Three Kingdoms", there is no such thing as "Zhuge Liang put an empty city plan".
Zhuge Liang set up an empty city plan, this matter is also fake, and there is no such thing in history.
In other words, in the real history of China, there is no such thing as "Zhuge Liang laying out the empty city".
Zhuge Liang put an empty city plan", the earliest source is the "Five Things of Tiao Liang" written by Guo Chong, a native of the Western Jin Dynasty.
However, Chen Shou, the compiler of the historical book "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", believes that "Five Things of Tiao Liang" is not reliable at all and is fiction, so it is not adopted.
Later, Pei Songzhi, a historian of the Southern Dynasty, annotated the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", and also believed that the text of "The Five Things of Tiao Liang", including Zhuge Liang's empty city plan, was fictional.
Luo Guanzhong wrote "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and directly copied Guo Chong's "Five Things of Tiao Liang", but Luo Guanzhong didn't know that he was deceived by Guo Chong.
However, maybe Luo Guanzhong knows that this matter is fake, but the more magical the writing, the better, and as for who is real and who is fake, he Luo Guanzhong may not care.
Fake Story No. 5
The story of "Guan Yu scraping bones to cure poison" is fake
Hua Tuo scraped Guan Yu's bones to cure poison, this story is actually fake.
Why is this thing fake?
Because time and space don't match.
Hua Tuo was a real famous doctor in Chinese history, who died in 208 AD.
And Guan Yu attacked Fancheng and was shot in the arm in 219 AD.
In other words, when Guan Yu was hit by an arrow in the arm, Hua Tuo had been dead for 11 years.
It is impossible for Hua Tuo to crawl out of the grave and scrape Guan Yu's bones to cure the poison.
So we say that for history lovers, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a very unreliable book, and people who really know how to read history do not read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Hua Tuo scraped Guan Yu's bones to cure poison, which is also fake, there is no such thing in history.
Fake Story No. 6
The story of "Taoyuan Three Knots" is fake
Regarding the history of the Three Kingdoms period, the story of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei's "Taoyuan Three Knots" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in China, so that generations of Chinese have imitated it, and everyone mistakenly thinks that the "Taoyuan Three Knots" is a real historical event.
In fact, the story of the "Taoyuan Three Knots" is a false history, and this incident does not exist in history.
The story of the Taoyuan Three Knots is also false and does not exist in history.
First, let's look at the source of the story. The story of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei's "Taoyuan Three Knots" that the common people like to see comes from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" of Luo Guanzhong, a family in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.
Regarding the story of "Taoyuan Three Knots", the original text of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is like this:
Fei said: "There is a peach orchard behind my village, and the flowers are in full bloom; Tomorrow we will be in the garden to worship heaven and earth, and the three of us will become brothers, work together, and then we can do great things. Xuande and Yun Chang responded in unison: "This is very good." The next day, in the peach orchard, prepared the black cow and white horse sacrifice and other items, the three of them burned incense and bowed again and said the oath: "Reading Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, although they have different surnames, they are brothers, they will work together to save the poor and help the needy; Report to the state, under An Lishu; I don't want to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but I want to die on the same day and month of the same year. The Emperor and the Queen of Heaven are the ones who have learned from this heart. Treachery and ingratitude, heaven and man kill together! "After the oath, worship Xuande as a brother, Guan Yu as the second, and Zhang Fei as the younger brother.
The text is not too profound, so I will not translate it.
The problem is: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a **, not a serious history book.
In fact, Luo Guanzhong, the author of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", did not deceive readers, Luo Guanzhong made it clear: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is "Romance". What is "Romance"? "Romance" is based on historical books, imagination, and deduction to make historical stories more vivid, so it is called "Romance", or simply and rudely, "Romance" is actually the meaning of "history".
The history of the late Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty ** "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is based on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" is a serious history book, and its author is called Chen Shou, a historian from the Shu Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty. Chen Shou was born only a few decades later than Liu Bei.
In other words, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a book written by Luo Guanzhong by using his imagination, blending various folk legends, and blending with the addition of folk storytellers to rewrite, exaggerate, and process "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
The story of "Taoyuan Three Knots" does not exist in the serious history book "Three Kingdoms". There is no story of "Taoyuan Three Knots" in the thick history book "Three Kingdoms", and there are only a few sentences in the description of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei in the "Three Kingdoms", and the original text is like this:
The first lord and the two of them slept in the same bed, and they were brothers. And the dense people sit widely, stand all day long, and follow the ancestors around without avoiding hardships and dangers."
It means that Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have a very good relationship with each other, and even when they sleep at night, they sleep in the same bed, like brothers.
However, looking through the entire "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is no story of "Taoyuan Three Alliances", that is to say, the so-called Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are in a peach tree orchard, burning incense, making an alliance with blood, worshipping heaven and earth, and swearing to become brothers, this story has no historical basis.
The story of "Taoyuan Three Knots" can not only be found in the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", but also in Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian" and Fan Ye's "Book of the Later Han", there is no record of it.
So, since the story of "Taoyuan Three Knots" written by Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can't be found in the serious history books, is this story made up by Luo Guanzhong's own brain?
Neither is it. In fact, it is generally believed that Luo Guanzhong is likely to refer to the script "Zhizhi Xinkan Quanxiang Pinghua Three Kingdoms" published in the Yuan Dynasty, and the original text is like this:
There is a peach orchard after that, there is a small pavilion in the garden, Fei then invites the two public pavilions to put wine, three people drink, drink between, three people each order year A, the German prince is long, Guan Gong is secondary, fly the smallest, in this way, the big one is the brother, the small one is the younger brother, slaughter the white horse and sacrifice the sky, kill the bird and the cow sacrifice the ground, do not seek to be born on the same day, only wish to die on the same day, the three people sit and sleep together, swear to be a brother ......”
This "Zhizhi New Publication Quanxiang Pinghua Three Kingdoms" is a script dedicated to folk storytellers in the Yuan Dynasty, and it contains the story of "Taoyuan Three Knots", but the problem is that this is a script, and the historical value is zero, which is not enough to rely on, and is not credible.
Interestingly, although the story of "Taoyuan Three Knots" is fake history, but for thousands of years, the Chinese have read it as real history, so that the Chinese have been competing to imitate it for generations, such as Chiang Kai-shek in the ** period, who likes to come to this set the most, imitating "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at every turn, and swearing brothers with warlords.
Fake Story No. 7
The story of "Three Heroes vs. Lu Bu" is fake
The story of the so-called "Three Heroes vs. Lu Bu" is actually fake.
When we were children, we read the story of "Three Heroes vs. Lu Bu" in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is about Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, and the three of them besieged Lu Bu together, and they couldn't beat it for dozens of rounds, but in the end, Lu Bu was outnumbered after all, and he ran away while fighting.
This is the famous story of "Three Heroes vs. Lu Bu".
We grew up reading this story by heart.
This story is very wonderful and violent, but in fact, the story of "Three Heroes vs. Lu Bu" is fake, fabricated, and deceitful, and there is no such thing in the official history books.
The story of the Three Heroes vs. Lu Bu is also false, and there is no such thing in history.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a **, not history.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is based on some official historical materials such as "Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Lu Bu" and "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Lu Bu".
In the official historical materials such as "Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Lu Bu" and "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Lu Bu", there is no record of "Three Heroes Fighting Lu Bu".
In other words, in serious historical materials, there is no "wonderful" scene of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei beating Lu Bu.
In the official historical material "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it was the "Jiangdong Hero" Sun Jian who really singled out and repelled Lu Bu, not Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.
In other words, Zhang Guan Li Dai in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" replaced Sun Jian in the official historical material "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei. Moreover, the author deliberately put on a crown and wore it.