What does Liu look like? Is it really like TV or a temple?

? From the stage and drama, Liu Bei with a white face, Guan Yu with a red face and Zhang Fei with a black face are well known, but these are all characters in novels and dramas.

Judging from the routine of the stage image of the play, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have long been known to women and children for their white faces, red faces and black faces. So, how does Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms describe the appearance of these three people?

Liu Bei: It's seven feet and five inches long, with two earlobes and two shoulders. His hands are over his knees, and his eyes can shine on his ears. His face is like a crown jade, and his lips are like fat.

Guan Yu: He is nine feet long and his beard is two feet long. If the face is like a heavy jujube, if the lips are coated with fat; Cheng Yan, lying silkworm eyebrow. Beautiful, dignified.

Zhang Fei: He is eight feet long, with a leopard head, leopard eyes and a tiger beard. His voice is like thunder, and he is like a galloping horse.

How much evidence do these three people seem to have in the history books?

Liu Bei was described in The Three Kingdoms, Shu Shu Zhuan and Ancestors.

"I don't like reading very much. I like dogs and horses, music and beautiful clothes. Seven feet and five inches long, he dropped his hand to his knees and looked at his ears. Less words, kindness, anger, invisibility. "

The reflection Shu Shu Guan Yu biography mentioned that when Zhuge Liang called Guan Yu "bearded" in his letter, he wrote:

"(Guan) Yu Mei must be bearded, so it is called bearded."

As for Zhang Fei's appearance, there is nothing in the official history.

It can be seen that Liu Bei's appearance has the most historical basis, but his face and lip color are added in the novel. The historical basis of Guan Yu's appearance, except "beautiful beard", other things such as heavy jujube face, phoenix eye, lying silkworm eyebrow and its height, are all shaped in the novel. The appearance of Zhang Fei is completely circulated by the people and created by artists outside the official history.

Regardless of the basis of history books, it should be said that Liu's height problem is still in line with the facts. because

First, Liu Bei is seven feet five inches tall, which is recorded in the official history.

Secondly, Guan and Zhang are both famous military commanders, who are known as "ten thousand enemies" and should be higher than Liu Bei. So it makes sense to write that Guan Yu is nine feet tall and Zhang Fei is eight feet tall in the novel.

According to the size of China people and today's size ratio, one foot in the Han Dynasty is equivalent to 0. 13 meters today. From this calculation, Liu is the tallest, Guan Yu is 2 meters, followed by Zhang Fei 1.84 meters and Liu Bei 1.72 meters.

Luo Guanzhong not only describes the appearance characteristics of the three men, but also echoes in other chapters, such as Lu Bu scolding Liu Bei for "big ears" and saying that Zhang Fei didn't sleep a wink, "had to keep his eyes open" and "snored like thunder", and so on. All these make people feel as if they have seen this man and heard his voice. There is no doubt that Luo Guanzhong's description of their looks is both reasonable and impressive.

Because Zhang Fei's appearance is not recorded in the official history, he was romanticized as a leopard head with eyes and a tiger beard. Some people say that Zhang Fei is actually a white-faced scholar, but his exquisiteness is beyond measure, and the influence of traditional Chinese opera cannot be changed.