Lu Bu is a tragic image in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In this novel, although Lu Bu's activities are limited to less than one-sixth of the book's length, his image characteristics are still vivid. The saying that "Lu Bu is a rabbit among people" and stories such as "Hulao Pass" and "The Story of Dying Sim" have been circulated among the people for a long time. It is worth noting that, in shaping the image of Lyu3 bu4, although this novel is based on a large number of historical works such as The History of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong made many modifications and processes to the previous generation of documents and some folklore at that time, and made bold creations. On the road from history to literature, important changes have taken place in the quality characteristics of Lu Bu. In view of the fact that only Gu's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Bu and others have been studied on this image at present. Therefore, this paper intends to make a brief discussion and analysis on this issue and its significance for your reference.

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In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the quality characteristics of Lu Bu can basically be summarized as "brave" and "meaningless", or as the novel says, "brave without planning, forgetting righteousness at the sight of profit". [1] Almost all critics have no objection to this. Li Yu said that these two sentences were "Lu Bu's comments", and Mao Zonggang even thought that this sentence was "word for word". On the whole, Lu Bu is not only a brave and invincible warrior, but also an ungrateful villain.

About the bravery of Lu Bu, the historical records are very brief. The evaluation of him is nothing more than "bow and horse bravely", "superior arm strength" and "good at fighting and not advancing" (The History of the Three Kingdoms (this biography)). It was not particularly prominent in the late Han Dynasty. However, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Bu's bravery and bravery were exaggerated to the extreme. In novels, Lyu3 bu4' s description of the battlefield often uses such words as "God is like a spirit, a horse is like a lion", "Lyu3 bu4' s hero is invincible in the world", "Rushing out of the battle" and "Like nobody's business". According to the standards of novels such as Tang Shuo, Lyu3 bu4 is of course the first hero in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In the passage of "shooting a halberd at Yuanmen", he can pull Yuan Shu's general Ji Ling around like a child. It is conceivable that his martial arts and courage are superhuman. In addition to shooting halberds at Yuanmen, Luo Guanzhong also focused on two wars between Hulao Pass and Huaiyang to show Lu Bu's courage and skill. There is no record of the battle of tiger fastened shut in the annals of the Three Kingdoms. It first appeared in the story of Three Kingdoms Pinghua published in Yuan Dynasty. It has been described in detail in Lu Bu's Three Wars in Hulao Pass, which shows that this story is basically evolved from folklore. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms draws lessons from Pinghua and Zaju, retaining the wonderful scene of "Three Britain vs. Lu Bu" and making some changes at the same time. The most important thing is to remove the episode of Zhang Fei's crushing defeat of Lu Bu in Pinghua, and change it into Lu Bu, who is invincible in the world and kills the eight-way princes.

About the battle of huaiyang. History books are short. The biography of the Three Kingdoms Lu Bu only contains: "Mao (Cao Cao-the leader's note) returned to the army and fought against Lu Bu in Puyang. Mao's army is not good. Stalemate for more than a hundred days. " In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (the third volume), Luo Guanzhong described the battle in detail in two sections: The Battle of Lu Puyang and Tao Sanyou in Xuzhou. First, there are two battles outside Puyang. Cao Cao was startled. Lu Bu's swaggering momentum was vividly rendered. Then. Lyu3 bu4 skillfully used a double agent. Earn Cao Cao in Puyang City. Almost killed Cao Cao.

Although Lu Bu was "brave and courageous" in history, he was not an absolute warrior. "Heroes" recorded a story of Lu Bu plotting to escape from the darkness of Yuan Shao:

"When to send tomorrow. Shao sent thirty soldiers to deliver cloth. The cloth stopped by the account. Fake makes people drum up Zheng in the account. The soldiers lay down. There is no charge for this cloth. The soldiers can't feel it. In the middle of the night, the soldiers got up and threw their beds and quilts at sixes and sevens, claiming that they were dead. Tomorrow. Ask Shao. Know that Bu is still there. "

This historical material was included in the Notes on the History of the Three Kingdoms by Pei Songzhi, and was later adopted in the text of Lu Bu Zhuan at the end of Han Dynasty. Luo Guanzhong should understand. But he didn't transplant it into the novel. One of the most important reasons is probably that he doesn't want to weaken Lu Bu's "brave and brave" characteristics because of this story. Therefore, in the whole Romance of the Three Kingdoms, although Lu Bu also has "decisive" behaviors such as the battle of Puyang and the shooting of halberds at Yuanmen, he mainly appears in front of readers as a warrior.