Guan Yu is a main character in the novel, especially famous among the people. In the novel, Guan Yu, whose real name is Guan Mingyu, is a fairy, and later changed to Yun Chang. Because its beard is two feet long, it is called "the bearded man".
In the novel 1, he wrote, "He is nine feet long and has a beard of two feet. His face is as heavy as a jujube and his lips are coated with fat." Cheng Yan, lying silkworm eyebrow, good-looking, majestic "; Later, it was added that "stepping off the red hare and holding the dragon crescent moon knife" constituted the overall image of Guan Yu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Guan Yu was a famous soldier under Liu Bei in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei was a famous general. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei shared a bed with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, feeling like brothers. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, these three people are described as "Three sworn brothers in Taoyuan", the second brother of Liu Bei and the eldest brother of Zhang Fei.
His deeds were told by later generations. When Guan Yu lived temporarily under Cao Cao, he was awarded the title of Hanshou Hou Ting by Cao Cao for killing Yan Liang before the battle. When Liu Bei proclaimed himself king of Hanzhong, he worshipped Guan Yu as a former general and took charge of Jingzhou for personal gain. After Guan Yu's death, Liu Chan posthumous title, the late ruler, was the "Miao Hou of Zhuang", which was the first of the five tiger generals of Hanzhong Wang Liubei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.