083 Wu Guotai in Romance
Legend has it that Mrs. Wu had a younger sister who married Sun Jian together, and later, she was written into "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Luo Guanzhong, called Wu Guotai.
Hey, doesn't the Sprinkle family always advertise that they write about the historical facts of the Three Kingdoms, not fictional characters? How did you write Wu Guotai?
Other novels can't, but the ones in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can.
Don't we often look at "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as the history of the Three Kingdoms? In "000 is not the first, it is the only", didn't I write Mrs. Zhurong into it?
Mrs. Zhurong is purely a fictional character of Luo Guanzhong, she wrote it, why couldn't Wu Guotai write it?
Write, write Wu Guotai!
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Wu Guotai, a character in the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", is not recorded in the official history.
In the novel, Wu Guotai is described as Sun Jian's second wife, the younger sister of Sun Jian's wife, Empress Wulie (written as Mrs. Wu Tai in the novel), and the mother of Sun Lang and Sun Shangxiang, and the prototype is Sun Jian's concubine Ding.
In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Mrs. Wu and her sister Wu Guotai are both married to Sun Jian, Mrs. Wu has four sons, and Wu Guotai has a son Sun Lang and a daughter Sun Shangxiang.
After the death of Mrs. Wu, Sun Quan obeyed his mother's orders and raised Mrs. Wu as his own mother.
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During the Battle of Chibi, Wu Guotai once reminded Sun Quan that "if you don't decide on foreign affairs, ask Zhou Yu".
Later, Zhou Yu set up a beauty stinky scheme, wanting to earn Liu Bei to Eastern Wu on the grounds of marriage, and took the opportunity to imprison Liu Bei in exchange for Jingzhou.
After Liu Bei arrived in Eastern Wu, he used Zhuge Liang's clever plan to spread the news of marrying Sun Quan's sister throughout the city.
Wu Guotai learned the rumors, criticized Zhou Yu and Sun Quan, and saw Liu Bei, who was more than 30 years older than his daughter, in Ganlu Temple.
Liu Bei later kidnapped Mrs. Sun and fled back to Jingzhou.
When Sun Quan was about to attack Jingzhou with Zhang Zhao's plan, Wu Guotai intervened to stop it, thinking that Zhang Zhao was killing his daughter.
Sun Quan sent his general Zhou Shan to Jingzhou to pick up his sister, and Zhang Zhao proposed to let Mrs. Sun return to Wu smoothly on the grounds that Wu Guotai was seriously ill.
It happened that Liu Bei had gone to Yizhou at this time, and Mrs. Sun took the opportunity to flee back to Eastern Wu with Liu Chan, but on the way Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei chased after her, Zhou Shan was killed by Zhang Fei to protect Mrs. Sun, and Liu Chan was also recovered, but fortunately, Mrs. Sun had left smoothly and was finally able to reunite with Wu Guotai.
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Wu Guotai, mentioned for the first time in the sixth episode of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and played an important role in Mrs. Sun's marriage, but in addition to reminding "ask Zhou Yu if foreign affairs are not decided", she acts as an anti-Sun Wu image all the time in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
This point, compared with Mrs. Wu (her sister in the romance), who plays a role in national politics and personal wisdom in the official history, can be completely called two types of people.
Writing a novel, not writing a canonical history.
Mrs. Wu is a little too upright, giving people the impression of pretending to be P, creating an old lady who is a little more lively, only from the perspective of her daughter's personal happiness, and doesn't care about those men who fight and kill, and fools the two "heroes", readers will applaud and be accepted by readers.
Zhou Yu proposed "fake recruitment", the original intention was to lure Liu Bei to Wu in the name of recruiting relatives, which was completely a positive behavior of the so-called attaching importance to national affairs, but after the scheme was exposed, Wu Guotai only considered her daughter's marriage, and insisted on promoting the marriage by confusing the truth with the false.
Some people repeatedly mentioned the age difference between Liu Bei and Sun Shangxiang, talking about the legitimacy of their marriage, forgetting that it was in the environment more than 2,000 years ago, and the age gap was not a thing.
Even back in modern times, do you still think that the age difference between men and women is 30, 40 and 50 years, is there anything immoral?
The essence of marriage and love is not age, but feelings, okay?
Moreover, Liu Bei is the king of a country, and he is so smiling, generous and benevolent, Sun Shangxiang fell in love at first sight, how could her mother not be compatible?
In Ganlu Temple, Wu Guotai fell in love with his aunt at a glance, and his son (or nephew) helped his daughter and son-in-law escape from Soochow, not to mention it.
After a long time, when Sun Quan and Zhang Zhao plotted against Jingzhou, she insisted on taking her daughter back, she only thought about her daughter in her heart, afraid that women would die in war, and the rest of the others were all gone! This is like a mother, who is a mother in the world, isn't that the case?
Therefore, what Luo Guanzhong wrote, it is reasonable, goes with the flow, and applauds the readers unanimously, which is worthy of being a great novelist! The author of the first of the four famous books!
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Wu Guotai's "elbow turned outward" and "his own family hurt his own family", which made Sun Quan, Zhou Yu and other Sun and Wu forces complain, and only cheapened Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei and others, because in the author's opinion, Liu Bei is orthodox and Shu Han is the righteous party.
Wu Guotai knew that her daughter died for her husband to throw herself into the river, what was her mood? "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was not written, I think, the tenacious and love-oriented old lady will reverse the mentality of "protecting the calf" at this time, nodding in her heart, and sighing at most - what will happen to her if her daughter's affairs are displaced to her own body?
She can understand.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is about the word "righteousness", and everything must give way to "righteousness", which is the point that the author hopes that readers can accept after reading this book.
Luo Guanzhong painstakingly created one fictional character after another, not out of this consideration.
As for the historical facts, where they are, if you are willing to read the historical facts, you can read them well, and no one will stand in your way. But I'm a novel, you remember, it's a fictional novel, I tell you, I made it up, I made it up, you don't have to read it, you have the right to do so, unless you can keep silent when you present evidence in court.
It is undeniable that the result of writing in this way is to add entertainment to the novel, and all the local dramas that follow this plot are used as the main line to portray the stupidity of Sun Quan and Zhou Yu. Everyone smiled when they saw this.