Our Martial Saint

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world collapsed. A young man from Jie County, Hedong Province, fled to the end of the world because of a righteous killing. On the streets of Zhuo County, he met two people who changed his life - Liu Bei and Zhang Fei. From then on, Guan Yu Yunchang's life was closely tied to the word "righteousness". He followed Liu Bei around the Central Plains, staying under the fence of others without changing his mind; he temporarily lived in Cao Ying, killed Yan Liang to repay his kindness, and traveled thousands of miles to find his brother for justice; he guarded Jingzhou, flooded seven armies, and shocked China; he suddenly fell at the highest peak of his life, was defeated in Maicheng, and his head was in a different place. But the story doesn't end there. In the following thousands of years, emperors conferred titles, people offered sacrifices, literati wrote, and merchants worshiped. How could a defeated general become a "martial sage" and be worshiped alongside the "literary sage" Confucius? How can a mortal with a headstrong, proud and arrogant character enter the spiritual world of every Chinese and become "our Martial Saint"? This book uses the official history "Three Kingdoms" as the skeleton and the narrative aesthetics of classical chapter novels as the flesh and blood to retell Guan Yu's life and death. The eight volumes in the upper part describe his life - from his exile in the world to his defeat in Maicheng, describing a person's loyalty, courage, pride, struggle and destruction; the two volumes in the lower part describe his life - from "Marquis Zhuangmiao" to "Emperor Guansheng", describing how a nation molded a mortal into a god.