He was victorious in every battle, but history books say that he was "brave but not wise."
He was proficient in writing documents, settling accounts, recognizing horses, and training soldiers. However, history books only record that he was "proficient in bows and horses."
He had a reason for every betrayal, but the history books only gave him four words: a slave with three surnames.
Lu Bu, a wolf who grew up under the border wall of Jiuyuan.
At the age of ten, he was lying in the snow learning the art of war from a blind old wolf. At the age of sixteen, he figured out the value of "fame". At the age of seventeen, he defeated Xianbei as a cavalry captain. At the age of nineteen, he was promoted to chief by Ding Yuan - a border warrior who squeezed into the card table of the gentry.
He knows how to fight and settle accounts.
He knows horses like gods and he also knows people's hearts.
He is silent but never confused.
However——
In the discourse system of the gentry, he will always be a "vulgar warrior".
In the historian's writing, he will always be a "repetitive villain".
In the legends of later generations, he will always be the "brave and foolhardy" God of War.
No one has ever asked: Who wrote history?
Why is a general who is victorious in every battle described as brave and foolhardy?
Why is every choice simplified to "seeing gains and forgetting one's righteousness"?
Why are those victors who talk about benevolence, justice and morality dirtier than him, but cleaner than him?
This is not a book to whitewash Lu Bu.
This is a book that essentially asks about history and defines historical figures.
Open it and you'll see:
How a border boy crawled out of the snow to fight for his life with a knife and a pen at the same time.
How a real soul covered by labels howls at the White Gate Tower for the last time.
"They said I was foolhardy.
But I beat everyone, but I couldn't beat a pen. "
Reader comments
An astonishing book, the author's conception and writing style are of a very high standard! Lu Bu can be said to be a figure who has been slandered quite badly by various unofficial histories and the Three Kingdoms. Influenced by the Three Kingdoms, most people's inherent impression of Lu Bu is that he is greedy for money, lustful, brave and foolhardy. But I have always been puzzled. If someone is really brave and foolhardy, how can he gradually become the overlord of a party and leave his name in history (don't worry about the name). Ordinary people would have been dead in that era, right?
Compared with the family background of Sun Quan and Cao Cao, Lu Bu can be called a natural disaster. Even Liu Bei has the blessing of being a clan member of the Han Dynasty. The author is also one of the few people who has broken down the gap between the common people of poor families and the noble families, and reasonably supplemented and analyzed the deep-seated motivations of Lu Bu's actions.
Of course, it may be that I am overthinking it, but there are very few texts about Lu Bu himself, and even fewer words that are used fluently. Come on, author.
A good book, a more realistic description of Lu Bu, worth reading.
An astonishing book, the author's conception and writing style are of a very high standard! Lu Bu can be said to be a figure who has been slandered quite badly by various unofficial histories and the Three Kingdoms. Influenced by the Three Kingdoms, most people's inherent impression of Lu Bu is that he is greedy for money, lustful, brave and foolhardy. But I have always been puzzled. If someone is really brave and foolhardy, how can he gradually become the overlord of a party and leave his name in history (don't worry about the name). Ordinary people would have been dead in that era, right? Compared with the family background of Sun Quan and Cao Cao, Lu Bu can be called a natural disaster. Even Liu Bei has the blessing of being a clan member of the Han Dynasty. The author is also one of the few people who has broken down the gap between the common people of poor families and the noble families, and reasonably supplemented and analyzed the deep-seated motivations of Lu Bu's actions. Of course, it may be that I am overthinking it, but there are very few texts about Lu Bu himself, and even fewer words that are used fluently. Come on, author.
A good book, a more realistic description of Lu Bu, worth reading.