Introduction: After Cao Hong was defeated by Ma Chao and lost Tongguan, Cao Cao led the follow-up troops to the front of Tongguan Pass. In the first confrontation between Cao Cao and Ma Chao, Cao Cao's army was defeated. Ma Chao led Pang De, Ma Dai and others directly into Cao's army to capture Cao Cao personally. Ma Chao's fierce offensive forced Cao Cao to "cut off his beard and abandon his robe", and Cao Cao fled in panic.
Cao Cao was mixed up in the rebellious army, and he only heard the Xiliang army shouting: "The one wearing the red robe is Cao Cao!" Cao Cao immediately took off his red robe. Then someone shouted, "The one with the long beard is Cao Cao!" Cao panicked and cut off his beard with his sword. Someone in the army informed Ma Chao about Cao Cao's beard cutting off, and Chao ordered his men to shout: "The man with the short beard is Cao Cao!" When Cao Cao heard this, he pulled the flag corners around his neck and fled.
Example: Cao Cao fought against Ma Chao at Tongguan, cut off his beard and discarded his robes and returned in defeat, so he kept sighing in the tent. ?Zhang Liao: "Prime Minister, why are you sighing?" "Hey!" Cao Cao: "I'm thinking, it would be great if Guan Yu was still under my command." Extended information
Source: "Luo Guanzhong of the Ming Dynasty" "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Chapter 58: "Cao Cao was in the rebellious army, and he only heard the Xiliang army shouting: "The one in red robe is Cao Cao! "Cao Cao immediately took off his red robe in a hurry. He heard someone shouting again: "The one with the long beard is Cao Cao!" "Cao was frightened and cut off his beard with the knife he carried. The man who had the short beard was called Cao Cao. When Cao heard this, he pulled the corner of the flag and wrapped his neck around his neck and fled."
Cao Cao's outstanding political achievements in the late Eastern Han Dynasty Strategist, military strategist, writer, calligrapher, and the founder of the Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms.
Cao Cao served as the prime minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty and was later granted the title of King of Wei, laying the foundation for the founding of Cao Wei. After his death, his posthumous title was King Wu. After his son Cao Pi became emperor, he was honored as Emperor Wu, with the temple name Taizu.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos. In the name of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao conquered all directions, internally eliminated the separatist forces such as Yuan, Lu Bu, Liu Biao, Ma Chao, and Han Sui, and externally surrendered the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, etc. , unified northern China, and implemented a series of policies to restore economic production and social order, expand farmland, build water conservancy projects, reward farmers and mulberry trees, attach importance to handicrafts, resettle the exiled population, and implement "rent modulation", thus gradually stabilizing the society and economy of the Central Plains. There's a turning point.
Under the rule of Cao Cao, the politics of the Yellow River Basin gradually became clearer, the economy gradually recovered, class oppression was slightly alleviated, and the social atmosphere improved. Some of the measures taken by Cao Cao in the name of the Han Dynasty had a positive effect. ?
Cao Cao was proficient in the art of war in the military and valued talents. For this reason, he would take the potential members under his command at all costs. In life, he was good at poetry to express his political ambitions and reflect the people of the late Han Dynasty. His suffering life is majestic, generous and desolate; his prose is also clear and neat, which opened up and prospered Jian'an literature and left precious spiritual wealth to future generations. Lu Xun evaluated him as "the ancestor of reforming articles".
At the same time, Cao Cao was also good at calligraphy. Zhang Huaiguan of the Tang Dynasty rated Cao Cao's calligraphy as "wonderful" in "Shujuan".
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia - Cut off beard and abandon robe
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia - Cao Cao