What stories in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" do not exist in history?

" Three Kingdoms " is a history book, "Three Kingdoms" is a novel based on "Three Kingdoms", using imagination and artistic processing. Just because "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a novel, many of the popular stories in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are all fake.

One of the fake stories

" Zhuge Liang is mad at Zhou Yu " is a fake story


In the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhou Yu was mad at Zhuge Liang.

Zhou Yu cried several times before he died: God, since you gave birth to me to save the world, why did you give birth to a Zhuge Liang to fight me? (both Shengyu and He Shengliang)

The relevant original text of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is as follows:

"... Zhou Yu finished reading, sighed, and called left and right to take paper and pen to write a book. Wu Hou gathered the generals and said: "I If you don't want to serve the country with all your loyalty, the fate of Heaven is dead. You and others have done good deeds to the Marquis of Wu, and you will achieve a great cause together. When he finished speaking, he fell into a daze. He slowly woke up again, looked up to the sky and sighed: "Since Yu is born, why is it born bright!" "He died in a row. Thirty-six years old..."

However, this fact is also false.

In the real history, Zhou Yu's death method is actually like this: After Zhou Yu had a meeting with Sun Quan in Jingkou, he returned to Jiangling where he was stationed, and died of illness while passing through Baqiu (now Yueyang, Hunan).

As for what disease Zhou Yu died of, 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 Zhuge Liang.

In the film and television drama, Zhou Yu was vomited to death by Zhuge Liang. This incident is false in history. Zhou Yu died of illness. Jiangling is for clothes, but Baqiu died of illness."

It can be seen that Zhou Yu died of illness.

The second false story

The story of "Guan Yu going to the meeting alone" is a fake

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" said that Guan Yu was very heroic.

This is the famous "single-handed meeting" story.

However, this story is also false.

Guan Yu went to the meeting alone, but unfortunately this incident is also fake in history.


According to the records of serious historical books: this negotiation was indeed an invitation from Lu Su, but the place of negotiation was not Lu Su's military camp, but a first Three-way location.

Moreover, Lu Su and Guan Yu agreed that the men and horses on both sides must stop at a distance of one hundred paces. Then, Lu Su took a knife and Guan Yu took a knife. negotiation.

Guan Yu was not alone and went to Lu Su's barracks to negotiate. Guan Yu is not so brave, nor so stupid.

's accurate statement is: Guan Yu went to the meeting single-handedly, and Lu Su also went to the meeting single-handedly. Neither of them met each other on their own territory, and both sides brought men and horses to guard behind them. It can be said that they are equally heroic, but they are not the same. There is no saying that Guan Yu is more heroic than his enemy (Lu Su) .

"Three Kingdoms"" is a serious rewrite of the plot and a serious exaggeration of the facts. This exaggeration is also to brag about Guan Yu's "courageous" image, and the ultimate purpose is to make the characters more vivid in the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Reference: "Three Kingdoms, Wushu, Lusu Biography": "...Report, return to the public security, send Yu to fight for the three counties. Stay in Yiyang, and reject Yu. Su invite Yu to meet each other, and station troops and horses. Hundred paces up, but ask the general to meet with a single sword. Su Yin blamed Shu Yu and said: "The country originally borrowed land from the Qing family. Now that I have obtained Yizhou, I have no intention of returning it, but I have asked for the three counties, but I have not obeyed the order. Before he could finish the speech, a person sitting there said, "Husband land, only virtue lies in the ears, how often does it exist!" "He said with a serious stern voice, and his words were very harsh. Yu Jiandao said: "How can people know about this country's affairs! "I made it go. I was prepared to cut the Xiangshui River as a boundary, so I stopped the army..." It was adapted, processed, and fictionalized, but in the historical book "Three Kingdoms", there is no story of Zhuge Liang borrowing arrows from a grass boat.

In other words, Zhuge Liang's story of "borrowing arrows from straw boats" does not exist in real Chinese history. It only exists in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms written by Luo Guanzhong, a novelist in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties.

Zhuge Liang borrowing arrows from grass boats is also fake, there is no such thing in history


In fact, there is someone who has done "borrowing arrows from grass boats" in history, but that person is not Zhuge Liang, but Sun Quan .

There are many historical materials about Sun Quan's "borrowing arrows from grass boats". I will give an example. For example, the historical book "Wei Lue" records:

"Quan came to watch the army on a big boat, the envoy fired his bow and crossbow, arrows hit his boat, the boat was overweight, and Quan returned to the boat, and he received the arrows on one side, and the arrows were evenly leveled. It's back."

records this:

"Sun Quan took a big ship to scout Cao Cao's military situation. Cao Cao asked his subordinates to shoot arrows, so all the arrows were fired at Sun Quan's boat. The ship was almost overturned by this "rain of arrows", so Sun Quan ordered to turn the bow of the boat and let the other side of the boat receive the "rain of arrows". As a result, the large ship received arrows on both sides, the weight was even, and the ship was stable, so , Sun Quan ordered him to leave."

This is the true story of Sun Quan's "borrowing arrows from a straw boat".

Obviously, Luo Guanzhong read the passage of Sun Quan's "borrowing arrows with a straw boat" from "Wei Lue", so Luo Guanzhong adapted this story and processed the protagonist into Zhuge Liang, and then wrote it into his novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" went.

Fake Story No. 4

The "Empty City Plan" story is a fake

Zhuge Liang's "big empty city plan" story, which is also false and fictional. The story of

's so-called "Zhuge Liang's big empty city plan" is roughly as follows:

Sima Yi sent troops to attack Shu, and Zhuge Liang told the officers and soldiers in the city to evacuate and retreat. Sitting on the tower, leisurely wandering the land, playing the harp and making music.

Sima Yi was approaching the city, looked up and saw that this enemy of Shu didn't even close the city gate, and Zhuge Liang, this kid, was playing the piano on the city tower!

Seeing that the other party is so calm and calm, Sima Yi calculated: There must be a large group of soldiers in ambush, and the hero will not suffer immediate losses, so I should withdraw.

As a result, Sima Yi withdrew his troops,dare not fight. He was deceived by Zhuge Liang. The release of

has always been talked about by the world, and is considered to be a typical case showing Zhuge Liang's superb wisdom.

However, this story is actually false and fictitious. In the historical book "Three Kingdoms", there is no such thing as "Zhuge Liang's plan to use the empty city".

Zhuge Liang's scheming, this is also false, there is no such thing in history. The earliest source of

"Zhuge Liang's Empty City Plan" is "Tiaoliang Five Things" written by Guo Chong from the Western Jin Dynasty.

However, Chen Shou, the editor of the history book "Three Kingdoms", believes that "Tiaoliang Five Things" is not reliable at all, and it is all fiction, so it will not be adopted.

Later, the historian Pei Songzhi of the Southern Dynasties commented on the "Three Kingdoms", and also believed that the text of "Tiaoliang Five Things", including Zhuge Liang's empty city plan, was fictitious.

Luo Guanzhong wrote "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and directly copied Guo Chong's "Tiaoliang Five Things", but Luo Guanzhong did not know that he was deceived by Guo Chong.

However, maybe Luo Guanzhong knows this is fake, but the more magical the novel is, the better, and as for who is real and who is fake, Luo Guanzhong may not care.

Fake Story No. 5

The story of "Guan Yu scraping his bones to cure poison" is a fake

Hua Tuo scraped Guan Yu's bones to cure poison, this story is actually fake. Why does

say this is fake?

because the time and space do not match.

Hua Tuo, a real famous doctor in Chinese history, died in 208 AD.

and Guan Yu attacked Fancheng with an arrow in his arm, in 219 AD.

In other words, when Guan Yu was shot in the arm, Hua Tuo had been dead for 11 years.

It is impossible for Hua Tuo to climb out of the grave and scrape Guan Yu's bones to cure poison.

So we say that for history lovers, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a very unreliable book. Those who really know history will not read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Hua Tuo scraped Guan Yu's bones to cure poison, it is also fake, there is no such thing in history The story of "Jie Yi" is deeply rooted in the hearts of China, so that generations of Chinese people have imitated it, and everyone mistakenly believed that "Taoyuan San Yi Yi" was a real historical event.

In fact, the story of "Taoyuan Three Knots" is false history, and this incident does not exist in history.

The Taoyuan Sanjie story is also false, there is no


First of all, let's look at the source of the story. The story of Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's "Taoyuan Three Knots", which the common people like to hear, comes from the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Luo Guanzhong, a novelist in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty. Note that this is a novel, and the era of Luo Guanzhong is far from the era of Liu Bei. , has a difference of more than 1100 years.

Regarding the story of "Taoyuan Sanyiyi", the original text of "Three Kingdoms" is as follows:

Fei said: "There is a peach garden behind my village, and the flowers are blooming;So, the three of us become brothers, work together, and then we can plan great things. Xuande and Yunchang responded in unison, "That's very good. The next day, in Taoyuan, they prepared the sacrifice of black cattle and white horses, and the three of them burned incense and worshipped again, and said, "Remember Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, although they have different surnames, but since they are brothers, they will work together to save the poor." Help the danger; report it to the country, go to Li Shu; do not ask to be born on the same day in the same year and month, but only wish to die in the same year, the same month and the same day. Emperor Tianhoutu, experience this heart. Betrayal and ungrateful, heaven and man slaughter! "After the oath, Bai Xuande is the brother, Guan Yu is second, and Zhang Fei is the younger brother.

The text is not esoteric, so I will not translate it.

The problem is: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a novel, not a serious history book.

In fact, Luo Guanzhong, the author of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", did not deceive the readers. Luo Guanzhong said clearly: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is "Romance". What is "Romance"? , in order to make the historical story more vivid, so it is called "Romance", or simply put, "Romance" actually means "historical novel".

The historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty is based on "Three Kingdoms" "Three Kingdoms" is a serious history book. Its author is Chen Shou, a historian from Shu Han to Western Jin Dynasty. Chen Shou was born only a few decades later than Liu Bei. In other words, "Three Kingdoms" was used by Luo Guanzhong. My own imagination has combined various folklore and folk storytellers to rewrite, exaggerate and process the "Three Kingdoms", and then write a novel.

The story of "Taoyuan Sanyiyi" is in serious history books In "Three Kingdoms", it does not exist. In the thick historical book "Three Kingdoms", there is no story of "Taoyuan Sanyiyi" in it. In "Three Kingdoms", there are only a few good descriptions of the relationship between Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. In a sentence, the original text is as follows:

"The First Lord and the two sleep in the same bed, Brother Enruo. The Chou people sit widely, stand around all day, and follow the First Lord to deal with difficulties and dangers.”

means: Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are friends, and they have a good relationship. Even when they sleep at night, they all sleep in the same bed, as close as brothers.

However, after rummaging through the entire book of "Three Kingdoms", there is no story of "Taoyuan Three Bonds", that is to say, the so-called Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are in a peach tree orchard, burning incense, drinking blood as an alliance, worshiping heaven and earth, swearing The story of becoming brothers has no historical basis.

The story of "Taoyuan Three Knots" not only has no basis in "Three Kingdoms", but also in Sima Guang's "Zizhitongjian" and Fan Ye's "Later Han Dynasty" ", can't find the record.

Then, since the story of "Taoyuan Three Knots" written by Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" cannot be found in the official history books, is this story made up by Luo Guanzhong himself? Neither is

.

In fact, it is generally believed that Luo Guanzhong is likely to refer to the play "Zhizhi Xinkan Quanxiang Pinghua Three Kingdoms" published in the Yuan Dynasty. Invite Ergong Pavilion to put wine on the pavilion, the three of them drink happily, and in the drinking room, the three of them are in the first year of the year. Heaven, killing birds and cattle to sacrifice to the earth, I don’t want to be born on the same day, but to die on the same day, the three of them walk together and sit and sleep together, swearing to be brothers…”

This "Zhizhi New Journal Quanxiang Pinghua Three Kingdoms" is dedicated to folk storytellers during the Yuan Dynasty. 's script, it has the story of "Taoyuan three ties", but the problem is, this is a script, the historical data value is zero, not enough to rely on, not credible.

The interesting thing is: the story of "Taoyuan three ties", although it is Fake history, but for thousands of years, the Chinese have read it as real history, so that the Chinese have been imitating it from generation to generation. ", sworn brothers with warlords.

The Seventh Fake Story

The story of "Three British Fighting Lu Bu" is a fake

The so-called "Three British Fighting Lu Bu" story is actually false.

When we were children, we read the story of "Three Heroes Fighting Lu Bu" in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It said that Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei beat Lu Bu together for dozens of rounds, but in the end Lu Bu was defeated. After all, outnumbered, they fought and ran.

This is the famous "Three British Wars against Lu Bu" story.

We grew up knowing this story.

This story is very exciting and vivid, but in fact, the story of "Three British Wars against Lu Bu" is false, fabricated, and deceitful. There is no such thing in the official history books.

The story of Sanying and Lu Bu is also false, there is no such thing in history


"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a novel, not history.

The novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is adapted from 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".

There is no record of the "Three British Wars against 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".

That is to say, in the serious historical data, there is no "wonderful" scene of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei beating Lu Bu.

In the official historical data "Three Kingdoms", it was the "Hero of Jiangdong" Sun Jian who really singled out and defeated Lu Bu, not the three brothers Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

That is to say, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was worn by Zhang Guanli, and Sun Jian in the official historical data "Three Kingdoms" was replaced by Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei. Moreover, the author deliberately wears it.

Why is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written like this? Why Zhang Guan Li Dai?

The reason is very simple: because the novel is written like this, it is good-looking, exciting, and vigorous, and if it is written in this way, it not only highlights the loyalty and deep feelings of the three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang, but also highlights Lu Bu's heroism and good combat skills. A writing technique, or rather, a routine. If you don't write it like this, the novel will not look good, the novel will not look good, and the sales will not be good.

In other words, "Three Kingdoms" is a serious history book, relatively true, but not good-looking. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a novel, not true, but it is beautiful. Then again, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, the three brothers, beating up Lu Bu alone, fortunately it is a fake history, otherwise, three beatings one, it is not fair, not kind, and it is not a particularly worthy of praise. , you say right?