The Zhao Yun we saw rejecting his sister-in-law, is it the original story?

What is the real reason why Zhao Yun is reluctant to marry Fan in history?

The prototype of the story of "Zhao Yun's rejection of his sister-in-law" comes from the thirty-sixth volume of "Three Kingdoms", and Pei Note cites the account of "Yun Farewell Biography": (Zhao) Fan's widow and sister-in-law said Fan's family, with national colors, and Fan wants to match the clouds.

Yun Ci said: "With the same surname, Brother Qing is like my brother." ”

Stubbornness is not allowed. From time to time, some people persuaded Yun to accept it.

Yun said: "Fan forced his ears to land, and his heart is unmeasurable; There are many women in the world. So he did not marry.

Fan Guo fled, and Yun Wu was not a single one.

On the surface, it seems that there is not much difference from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but in connection with the causes and consequences of the incident, it can be seen that the same surname is just an excuse for resignation, and the real reason why Zhao Yun is reluctant to marry Fan is that he does not trust Zhao Fan and does not want to be involved with Zhao Fan and be implicated in the future.

In fact, Zhao Fan really betrayed Liu Bei, and Zhao Yun did not have any responsibility because he refused to marry Zhao Fan.

Therefore, this material quoted by Pei Note is to show that Zhao Yun is prescient and the eldest husband is not greedy for small profits in front of him.

From this point of view, "there are many women in the world" should be interpreted as "as long as you don't provoke fire like Fan's, there are as many women in the world as there are", and in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it should be understood as "Among the many women in the world, you should choose a virtuous one, not Fan's".

Zhao Yun in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Illustrated" published during the Tenpo period of Japan (early 19th century) is also described, and it seems that it can be taken for granted that in the process of adapting from "Three Kingdoms" to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", due to the influence of Confucianism, especially the etiquette and religion since the Southern Song Dynasty, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has made multiple layers of packaging for the original Zhao Yun's rejection of his sister-in-law.

Many editions of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" advertise "according to Jian", that is, they are arranged with reference to Zhu Xi's "Outline of Zizhi Tongjian".

And Zhao Yun, as a "positive figure", was gradually put on the cloak of Confucian morality.

It's not that simple, though.

There is also an important transitional stage between the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is generally considered to have been written in the Yuan Dynasty.

Here, it is necessary to examine the relevant parts of the "Three Kingdoms Zhipinghua" as well:

At the end of the feast, Zhao Fan left dozens of women with wine, and a woman in it was dressed in silk clothes and had a delicate appearance, so that she held the wine and said to Zhao Yun, "This is a sister-in-law, and she should be married to Zilong." ”

Zhao Yun shouted, "Er Nai is a puppet, the military advisor is strict, how can you think of wine!"

Words out of the ya.

Zhao Fan took Jiuyun, "Zhao Yun, who is not benevolent!" ”

led 3,000 troops to surround the pavilion, intending to kill Zhao Yun, but was killed by Zilong with an arrow.

Compared with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Tales of the Three Kingdoms" has the following differences:

1. The women who accompany the wine have changed from one person to dozens of people, creating an atmosphere full of fans.

2, Fan's costume changed from "Susu" to "Silk Clothes", deliberately concealing Fan's widow identity and making him dress up to serve Zhao Yun.

3, Zhao Yun's reaction was more intense than "Romance", not only adding bad words to Zhao Fan, but also finally turning against him and killing Zhao Fan.

As we all know, the story of the Three Kingdoms has been continuously processed by literati in the process of transitioning from "Three Kingdoms Zhipinghua" to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and from the early version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to the later version until Mao's version.

Moreover, the later the period, the higher the level of literati involved in the processing, and in the later period, even the names of first-class literati such as Li Zhuowu and Jin Shengxian appeared (of course, it is generally believed that the bookstore is more likely to be pretended).

So, on the other hand, the earlier the version, the less the scripture was written, and the closer the content was to the mentality of the charlatans. In this sense, Zhao Yun in "The Tales of the Three Kingdoms" is closer to the image of a chivalrous man than the literati and Confucian Zhao Yun in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" (especially in the later period).

So, what is the attitude of Jianghu people towards women?

Wang Xuetai said in "Nomad Culture and Chinese Society": "The Tales of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are indifferent to women, even hostile.

There are two main reasons for this: first, homeless people do not have a normal family life, and their attitudes towards the other half of the family tend to oscillate between envy (mostly "metaphysical" reverie) and resistance.

There is a popular public opinion on the rivers and lakes that good men should not be close to women.

If they want to be a good man, they can't help but suppress the ** in their hearts and be a good man.

That's why "Water Margin" has a perverted reflection on women.

The second is that there is a sense of fear of women in martial arts life.

Traditional wellness thinking believes that too much exposure to women will deplete the body.

In the Song Dynasty, martial arts mostly sank into the bottom of the society and wandered the rivers and lakes, so that whether a woman is good or not has gradually become the standard for the rivers and lakes to evaluate whether a person is a good man.

Heroes are not good women.

Wang Xuetai said in his book "Nomad Culture and Chinese Society" that in traditional novels, all heroes with the atmosphere of rivers and lakes have a sincere antipathy to women.

Like Wu Song in "Water Margin", Bai Yutang in "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", Jiang Bofang in "Three Heroes and Swords", etc., once a woman expresses their affection to them, they immediately burst into flames, thinking that they have suffered a great insult.

Zhao Yun in "Tales of the Three Kingdoms" is also like this.

Zhao Fan's banquet of beautiful women has made Zhao Yun extremely unhappy, as for marrying his sister-in-law to himself, from the perspective of the value of the Jianghu people, this is to "pout" (black words, that is, to find a reason and destroy the other party's heroic reputation), so Zhao Yun is so excited.

In addition, Zhao Yun here is also like a reckless hero in the rivers and lakes, he will hurt people when he disagrees, and he will shoot when he should shoot, and finally kill Zhao Fan, which is somewhat similar to Song Jiang who killed Yan Poxi angrily.

As a result, Zhao Yun, who is "not close to women in the style of rivers and lakes", has gradually put on the coat of Confucian ethics and has become a defender of etiquette after being packaged by countless literati.

However, between the lines, he still can't hide his irascible temperament, and Zhao Yun in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" knocked Zhao Fan to the ground with a heavy punch before leaving with his sleeves, which is something that literati can't do anyway.

In other words, the arrow shot by Zhao Yun at Zhao Fan in "The Tales of the Three Kingdoms" was wrapped in layers of Confucian ethics and finally turned into a fist. And this fist, still powerful.

From the shrewd Zhao Yun in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", to the irascible Zhao Yun in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and then to the Taoist Zhao Yun in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", each Zhao Yun is just a virtual image in the author's mind.