Why didn't many people in history know that Guan Yu used a dragon crescent moon blade?

Speaking of Guan Yu, everyone must be familiar with it. The red-faced and bearded "Guan Laoye" is loyal to the liver and courageous, which makes people worship. Later generations even called him "Wu Sheng", which means that Master Guan is skilled in martial arts.

Then it is rumored that the dragon crescent moon blade used by Master Guan is equally eye-catching. It is said that this dragon crescent moon blade is made of iron and weighs 80 Jin. With Guan Gong and broadsword, it is invincible.

There is an old saying-playing broadsword in front of Guan Yu means overreaching.

In the 1970s, there was a heavy rain in Luoyang, and then a thousand-year-old tomb appeared. After many investigations by experts and scholars, it is finally determined that this is the tomb of Guan Yu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was found together with the Qinglong Crescent Moon Blade. Why? Because he and his dragon crescent moon blade have been found several times before, and every place can find clues that Master Guan has been here from books, so the possibility of being buried here is not ruled out.

The reason is that Master Guan's tomb can be used as a tourist attraction, and Master Guan's knife can attract a group of people to watch and stimulate the local economy. So the tombs of Master Guan and his "Dragon Crescent Moon Knife" were unearthed one after another in various places, and your figure emerged one after another.

The reason why these places are so obsessed with Master Guan's tomb is because Master Guan is so powerful in history. Taking Guan Gong as a scenic spot will certainly attract many people.

Besides, if Master Guan is buried here, it can also be a person's pride, because the image of Master Guan is too positive in history, and almost all the commendations can describe the famous Master Guan.

So all over the world rushed to open the scenic spot, saying that their scenic spot was the tomb of Master Guan. But we don't know if it's true or not. No, another place claimed to have found Master Guan's tomb. The evidence is that there is a "Dragon Crescent Moon Knife" as a funerary object. This is the first dragon crescent moon blade found, and we can't count it.

The most ridiculous thing is that the authenticity of the Qinglong crescent moon blade, that is, the tomb is closed, has been debated in various regions, and there are also some well-founded basis.

This is the harm of Wu Guanzhong's writing novels without the explanation that "if there are similarities, it is purely coincidental" or "this story does not represent real history"-in Guan Yu's era, there would never be an 80-catty Qinglong crescent moon blade. Because the dragon crescent moon blade is made of iron, the technology at that time was not enough to make an 80 kg dragon crescent moon blade. The eighty-Jin iron knife in Romance of the Three Kingdoms is invincible.

However, in the Song Dynasty's Wu Jing Zong Yao, only one "moon-shielding knife" is similar in appearance to the Qinglong crescent moon-cutting knife, but its volume is much smaller. And this "Wu Yao" describes most of the weapons at that time. It is obviously unreasonable that Qinglong Crescent Moon Blade is such a famous weapon, which is not in the book. The only explanation is that this dragon crescent moon blade is fictional, and it was used by Luo Guanzhong to process characters.

Of course, the absence of a dragon crescent moon blade in Wu Yao does not guarantee that there is no "dragon crescent moon blade". What can overturn this point most is that the iron was just emerging at that time, and it was impossible to use a knife for a lifetime. Such first-generation ironware is easily scrapped. Not to mention the invincible representative Wu Sheng mentioned in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

So what weapon did Guan Yu use? According to archaeological findings, long and straight knives were often used in the Three Kingdoms period, and there was a "ring hand" to bind the cloth with the hand, so that the knife and the hand would not be separated. According to the literature, this "knife" is of poor quality and will be broken soon, so there is no knife that can last for a lifetime.

There is a record in the "History of the Three Kingdoms": "When Yu saw the cover, he stabbed it in the crowd on horseback, beheaded it, and spared the general, so he solved the Baimawei." In this record, there is a brief introduction about Guan Yu's weapons, which means that Guan Yu may use a spear, and even the possibility of painting a halberd with Tian Fang is greater than that of Qinglong Crescent Moon Blade.

Here, I just want to explain that Guan Yu's weapon can't be a knife, but it doesn't affect Guan Yu's image in later generations-the "protector" of Buddhism, the "Wu Caishen" of Taoism and the "God of loyalty and righteousness" of Confucianism. It can be said that Guan Yu is already a successful historical figure whether he has the knife or not.