During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei once said to Cao Cao: The sage is swift and the wind will change, and the sage inside refers to the sage Confucius. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 When it comes to Guan Yu, people will have in their minds the image of him lying bare-faced, lying silkworm eyebrows, phoenix eyes, five willows, long hair, wearing gold armor, and majestic. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the upgrading of Guan Temple to a martial temple, Guan Yu has gradually become a martial saint, and the Confucian Temple of Confucius, the most holy master of Dacheng, shares the supreme honor of the two saints of civil and military. But as everyone knows, the reason why Guan Yu became holy is that the feudal emperor deliberately set up a moral model in order to win the hearts of the people and maintain the rule of imperial power.

And Guan Yu in real history is not a superman with martial arts, his most prominent feature is that he is loyal to his brother Liu Bei with a different surname. And Guan Yu in history is still a famous general with outstanding achievements, although the five passes and six generals are from Luo Guanzhong's works, but the beheading of Yan Liang is reliable in history. In the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao supported millions of troops to conquer Jingzhou and chase Liu Bei, Guan Yu was ordered to lead Liu Qi's water army, and Liu Bei was killed in Jidu, and then joined forces with Zhou Yu, ambushed Huarong, sniped and defeated the retreating Cao army, and then assisted Liu Bei to collect the counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and garrisoned Jiangbei with merit for Xiangyang. Liu Bei conquered Shu, and Guan Yu guarded Jingzhou, so that Eastern Wu did not dare to start. In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, he defeated Cao Ren, flooded the Seventh Army, surrendered in the ban, planned to behead Pang De, and shocked China. But he was stubborn and self-serving, made the mistake of being proud of victory, carelessly lost Jingzhou, and he himself was captured and killed by Wu's general Lü Meng. It can be seen that Guan Yu in history is not perfect, so why is it widely worshiped by the people? Open the Qing dynasty Ruan Kuisheng's "Tea Yu Hakka Words", in the article "The Spirit of Benevolence and Righteousness Remains" says: Cover the worship of the Hou at that time, and the Guan Temple of today, and then the heavy Wu Zixu, Cheng Ying, Pestle and Xiang Yu, all sacrificed all over the sea. pointed out that benevolence and righteousness are the reason why Guan Yu was bowed down by people. So, in what dynasty did Guan Yu's deification begin? "The Whole Tang Dynasty" includes the article "Rebuilding the Yuquan Guan Temple" written by Dong Yu in the eighteenth year of the reign of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty was in a corner of peace, so that the feudal orthodox historical concept of the Three Kingdoms changed from the original Emperor Wei Kou Shu to Emperor Shu Kou Wei, and Guan Yu, who loyally assisted Liu Bei, became more deified with the improvement of political value. This kind of atmosphere was left to the Yuan, according to the "Yuan History, Sacrifice Chronicles" record, when the court did Buddhist things, it was accompanied by the Guan Yu shrine of the Han Dynasty, there was a shrine, there must be an idol of Guan Yu sitting in the sedan chair, it may be the statue of Guan Yu invited from the Guan Temple. This is the earliest record of Guan Yu's deification officially seen in the official history, and the subsequent "History of the Ming Dynasty" also has the same record. Even out of the emperor's edict, this is the feudal rulers to promote the idea of loyalty, hoping that more civil and military generals can be like Guan Yu to be loyal to the king, brave and brave in the community. During the reign of Ming Xiaozong, Yong Yuzi (Jiang Daqi) wrote a preface to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and pointed out: Guan Zhang's righteousness, especially Yishangye. The image of Guan Yu, which has been artistically processed by Luo Guanzhong, is the embodiment of the idea of loyalty and righteousness, and it became popular because of the strengthening of ideological control by the feudal rulers. For example, in the forty-second year of Wanli, when the Ming God Sect, the god position was promoted to the Xietian Protector of the Loyal and Righteous Emperor, and he was crowned as the Emperor of the Three Realms of Fu Demon Shenwei Yuan Zhen Tianzun Guan Shengdi Jun, under the edict, the temples of Emperor Guan are all over the sea, a village and a community are everywhere, although the wall is blocked, there are many ancestral halls, and even this wind blows into the palace, during the Tomorrow Enlightenment, the palace erects two statues of the Emperor Guan, one large and one small. The Qing Dynasty admired Guan Yu even harder, and the reason for this seems to be related to the founding of the Qing Dynasty. Qing Taizu Nurhachi himself is a fan of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", from which he learned a lot of military art and strategy, in the war of unification outside the pass, Nurhachi led the flag soldiers almost victorious, to success. In order to deify himself, he painted the artificial victory factor with a layer of mystery, saying that he was blessed by Guan Yu. In the ninth year of Shunzhi, Guan Yu was crowned as the Holy Emperor of Zhongyi Shenwu Guan, in the 25th year of Qianlong, he was renamed the Holy Emperor of Zhongyi Shenyong Guan, and in the 34th year of Qianlong, he was named the Holy Emperor of Lingyou Zhongyi Shenwu Guan. At this point, Guan Yu was lifted to the height of the martial saint, and the martial temple he erected was on a par with the Confucian Temple of Confucius, and Guan Yu was also completely praised to the top of the altar.

Guan Yu's loyalty, righteousness, and martial arts were touted by the feudal rulers, and the common people also practiced it? Because whether the feudal society was turbulent or peaceful, the successive rulers needed to appoint a loyal monarch and a patriotic person, such as Guan Yu, a typical figure. And the common people also valued Guan Yu's loyalty, which gave the people a spiritual sustenance in the feudal society ruled by darkness at that time. The ruler valued Guan Yu's loyalty, and the purpose of mythological propaganda was to hope that the ruled would also be loyal and patriotic like Guan Yu, so as to achieve the permanence of the regime. In the new society, the Guandi Temple has been built on all sides of China, and even in overseas and Chinese places, there are magnificent Guandi Temples, which show people the glory of traditional Chinese culture.