The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of Four Great Classical Novels in China, and it is loved by many people. Although some of its plots are not so real, it has also provided an opportunity for people to popularize the history of the Three Kingdoms. Among them, Sima Yi and Cao Cao are both fierce generations, but we admire Cao Cao even more, which is actually attracted by the charm of Cao Cao's personality. Sima Yi is far less than Cao Cao's personality. Moreover, Cao Cao's outmoded poetry is also the power that Sima Yi can't reach, and it encourages and supports us today.
The world has different ways to get it, and people have different opinions.
Although Cao Cao said that he was also a usurper, the Han Dynasty he served at that time was already terminally ill, and it was Cao Cao who regained the land of the north by himself. Cao Cao's usurpation of the throne by the Cao family in the world was the result of their efforts. Sima Yi's Sima family got the world by relying on Sima Yi, who humiliated and killed Cao Cao's orphans and widows. Cao Cao got the world aboveboard and brought it by his own efforts, while the Sima family got the world by his unscrupulous conspiracy and meanness. Therefore, in history, Cao Cao's attitude towards Sima family was more respected.
Cao Cao is still a literati, and Sima Yi has no treasures handed down from ancient times.
Compared with people now, those princes in history have already passed away and have no influence, but the power brought by those poems is infinite and shocking in thought. Cao Cao is the pioneer of Cao Wei's character. His poems are powerful and have inspired countless people. However, Sima Yi did not give this kind of encouragement to future generations, but instead brought some bad ideological indoctrination to future generations. For us now, the literary value of Cao Cao is not much higher than that of Sima Yi, so we admire Cao Cao even more.
The Sima family was spurned by people because of different national cultural feelings.
The Sima family broadened the Jin dynasty, but it was not a good dynasty. In this dynasty, the rebellion of eight kings brought endless suffering to the people. In the later period of the Jin Dynasty, the Eight Kings Rebellion was brought, which almost brought disaster to the Han people. Fortunately, a regime later wiped out most of the Hu people and gave the Han people a chance to continue to develop. The Han people in the history were humiliated by this, and naturally pointed this contradiction at the Sima family, but they didn't have any good comments on everyone in the Sima family. Therefore, Sima Yi was not as admired as Cao Cao in later generations.