Zhou Yu is such an outstanding politician and strategist in history, an outstanding historical figure who absorbed the essence of China's ancient loyal people, a typical figure who concentrated the advantages of China's ancient traditional heroes, a perfect man in China's Han Dynasty and an out-and-out hero of the Three Kingdoms.
However, in Luo Guanzhong's novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhou Yu is portrayed as a petty person who cares about personal gains and losses. He is inferior to Zhuge Liang everywhere, and is used to set off Kong Ming, which has become a negative textbook in people's minds.