Especially in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Hua Tuo cured Guan Yu by scraping bones and healing wounds, and later used scraping bones to treat poison as a metaphor for a strong-willed person. It also means strong will.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (full name: popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms) is a long-chapter historical romance novel written by Luo Guanzhong, a novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Chen Shou, Pei Songzhi's Notes and Folk Stories of the Three Kingdoms.
Together with Journey to the West, Water Margin and Dream of Red Mansions, it is called the four classical novels of China. After the book was written, several versions of this work spread around the world, such as Jiajing Renwu Edition. By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Mao Zonggang had rearranged the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, revised the wording and changed the poems. This version has also become the most advanced and widely circulated version among many versions.
Creative background:
The History of the Three Kingdoms, written by Chen Shou in the Western Jin Dynasty, is the earliest source of the story of the Three Kingdoms, but it is a biographical history book with a brief record and an outline. Pei Songzhi, a native of the Southern Song Dynasty, added many anecdotes to Notes on the History of the Three Kingdoms, which greatly enhanced the legend and readability. Liu Zhixi, a historian in the middle Tang Dynasty, said in Shi Tong that the story of Zhuge Liang's death has been "learned from his journey and spread to many people", which shows that the story of the Three Kingdoms has been widely spread among the people during this period.
There is a poem in Li Shangyin's "Pride of Children" in the late Tang Dynasty, which shows that the story of the Three Kingdoms was known to women and children at the latest in the late Tang Dynasty, and the story of the Three Kingdoms became more popular in the Song Dynasty through artists' performances and rap, which has shown a distinct tendency of "respecting Liu and belittling Cao".