In many temples, there is such a couplet: "Wu Mu and God come first, the Great Song will last forever, and the Great Man will last forever;" After Xu Anni and Sheng Sheng, one is in Shandong and the other is in Shaanxi. "Guan Yu first became a god with Yue Fei, and then became a saint with Confucius.

Guan Gong in the eyes of China people is a complex moral sculpture that is both real and artistic or deified. Apart from the deification and superstition of this moral sculpture in farming society, Guan Gong represents the profound accumulation of China traditional culture, which has already condensed in the bone marrow of China's historical civilization and flowed in the blood of China people. The executioner of cultural despotism represented by the Gang of Four can make the literati "hang up their pens" and the singers "seal their throats", and can freeze all spiritual cultivation on the night of the Lantern Festival, but the butcher's knife in their hands can never cut off all the moral and cultural ties condensed by China people's wages from generation to generation.

Personality is an eternal formula in the ever-changing human society. The "Great Wall of Personality" constructed by a series of personal conduct and integrity cannot be blown down by the black wind, nor can it be destroyed by the turbid waves. Chen Shou described Guan Yu's noble personality in The History of the Three Kingdoms. Although there are many aspects and angles in Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms and a large number of operas in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties; Although it was highly praised in the couplets of poems and songs of poets in the past dynasties after the Three Kingdoms, in the eyes of the literati and ordinary people in old China, the sculpture of Guan Yu was still lacking.

In the past years, in the eyes of China people, saints and gentlemen should make a career, make a career and make a statement. The former "Li San" Guan Yu had his own, but "Li Yan" was a "big blank" in Guan Yu, the military commander. Scholars since the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties have racked their brains for Guan Sheng's "talking about things".

Taking Mei Lan's pine and bamboo as a metaphor of personality, and taking this as the tradition of China literati's pen and ink, let Wu Sheng draw bamboo. Painting bamboo also has the distinction of elegance and vulgarity, so let Wu Sheng paint bamboo and rain bamboo; Painting rain bamboo is also graceful, so let Guan Fuzi's rain bamboo become a poem with "bamboo leaves". In this way, not only the bamboo painted by Wu Sheng is unconventional, but also Guan Fuzi can be among the poets. Guan Fuzi's "Wind Bamboo Map" said: "Don't thank Dong Junyi, Dan Qing is an independent name. Don't be too lonely, it won't wither for long. " "Rain Bamboo Map" says: "The great cause has not been repaired, so it must be. It's hard for a hero to cry, and it rains a little. " According to the Records of the Holy Relics of Guan Jun, during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, the stone carvings of Guan Shi were excavated underground in the Chuangtie Buddhist Temple in Xuzhou. Up to now, the inscriptions and postscript of Guan Yu's bamboo slips have been preserved in Yuncheng, Jingzhou, Shandong Feicheng and other places.

There are four stone tablets of Guan Yu's twelve-character seal script in Yuncheng Museum, Shanxi Province. The ancient tablet reads: "read good books, say good words, do good deeds and be a good person." When Guan Yu became a calligraphy warrior again is not recorded in the official history. However, Zhu, a famous philosopher, educator and representative of "Cheng Ming Neo-Confucianism" in the Southern Song Dynasty, firmly believed that the twelve-character seal script was written by Guan Sheng, and endowed four poems with "praise of seal script" and highly praised "quotations from Guan Sheng". It is said that these four sentences were written by Guan Yu to his son Guan Ping. Reading today, people will feel that this is very similar to the inscription of our founding leader when he encouraged young people.

It seems that the saints in China's history can only be spread for a long time if they have made achievements in philosophy. Duke Zhou engaged in rites and music and made laws and regulations, while Confucius wrote the Spring and Autumn Annals and recorded the Analects of Confucius. Laozi has a 5,000-word Tao Te Ching, Zhuangzi has Wang Yang's Autumn Water, Horseshoe and Free Travel ... The martial artist Guan Yu should also have his own set of figures in theory, so as to make it clear to future generations and benefit the whole people. Since the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Guan Gong has written a lot. The most widely circulated works are The True Sutra of Guandi's Eternal Life and Eighteen Chapters of Loyalty and Righteousness. These works, which rhyme with three characters, four characters or seven characters, are easy to spread, involving the country and society, public morality and personality, and are all-encompassing declarations of life and morality. Now, apart from the superstitious elements of karma and the feudal dross of the Three Cardinal Principles and the Five Permanent Principles, it can simply become a popular reading material for today's social morality and living standards.

The life of a country is like a person's life. Human life lies in vitality, and the life of a country lies in people's hearts. Under the autocratic politics of imperial power, the people most expect officials to be empty-handed, selfless, meritocratic and greasy. In the eyes of the people, Guan Sheng, as the first god in China, can only be a judge of the wicked and a protector of the good if he is far superior to the officials with these qualities. Although the literati shaped Guan Yu's personality in many aspects in art, the people still felt the "regret of staying in the pearl." Then, they fabricated some stories about Guan Sheng's integrity and honesty, and further colored Guan Sheng's moral statue with gold.

The legend that Guan Yu put "stable boy in command" has been circulating in Jingchu for a long time. Although Guan Yu is over fifty, he still has the habit of smelling chickens and dancing. One morning, Guan Yu was dancing a knife in a military field in baimashan. He saw someone riding a red horse running back and forth in the field. He looked intently and saw that it was stable boy, and it was Guan Xing who was practicing riding. Guan Yu watched it for several mornings. stable boy was like this every day, while Guan Xing was still snoring in the military camp. Soon, Guan Yu attacked Fancheng again. At the command of the school soldiers, Guan Xing rode majestically on the red horse, waiting for his father to order him to lead the troops, but Guan Yu let Guan Xing dismount and ordered stable boy to mount. When Guan Yu led his troops to take Fancheng and returned to Jing, Guan Yu left the city for six miles and gave a banquet to meet stable boy at the bridge. ...

Hu Peng's introduction, collusion between officials and businessmen, cronyism and traitors are the biggest corruption in officialdom. Guan Yu's move to put stable boy in command is enough to make Guan Yu's official virtue shine!

In Jingzhou, there is another story about Guan Yu's anger at Guan Ping: In Erxian Village outside Jingzhou, there is a family of Wang Xingren, whose grandson Wang Peng and his grandmother live together. One day, two grandparents went to the temple to worship. On their way home, Wang Peng was trampled to death by a galloping horse. Grandma Wang Pengzhi sued the county government. The magistrate saw that the lawsuit was on Guan Ping and did not dare to try. The old man left the county government and was about to commit suicide, but he was saved by Guan Yu and taken to Guanfu. After listening to the origin of the old man, Guan Yu couldn't say anything but caught him red-handed and tied him to the court for interrogation. Guan Ping was not riding a horse when he was killed in Jimson. Knowing that Guan Xing did it, he was willing to take the blame for his brother. Zhang Bao, Zhang Fei's son, learned of this situation and begged Wang Pengzhi's grandmother to borrow a sword to save her life. The old man was anxious to go to the execution ground to save Guan Ping. Guan xing resolutely stood up and admitted that he had passed. Guan Yu spared Guan Ping and beheaded Guan Xing. Wang Peng's grandmother begged Guan Yu to kowtow, saying that she would rather die by hitting a column than saving lives. Guan Yu's men also knelt down and begged for mercy, but Guan Yu still refused. Just after Cao Jun invaded, Wang Pengzhi's grandmother begged Guan Yu to let Guan Xing die again. Guan Yu survived Guan Xing's death, and the old man was taken to Guanfu for the aged. ...

These folklores believe that Guan Yu is an honest official, and he is not selfish. They all regard Guan Gong as the skeleton of a "person". Even if Guan Yu is beautified as a god, most people ferment and sublimate in their minds with the image of an honest official. For example, a monk in Guan Temple, in the name of Guan Ye, plundered the poor people's money on the grounds of giving gold to Guan Di's icon. Guan was furious and slapped the monk in the mouth ... the story of "the crooked mouth monk recited the wrong scriptures" came from this. Another example: In a closed temple somewhere, Guan Sheng near the altar misjudged a private case. After Zhao Xue's injustice, Guan Di was deeply remorseful and ordered the closed temple here to be burned down and never built again!

In this way, the literati of past dynasties used the most exquisite ideal crayons to depict the image of a warrior, that is, he was a warrior, that is, he was left or right, that is, he made a career. In this way, all the people in the world, with the most affectionate and ardent sustenance, made up for the lack of information and beautified Guan Gong into a "spiritual coordinate" worthy of the sky and the people. In the "Cultural Revolution", the No.1 figure of "Gao Daquan" in the model operas will be ashamed and dwarfed in front of this "spiritual specimen"!

If the Gang of Four criticized Confucius, it was because the old gentleman made a "self-denial" speech, which provided an excuse for the Gang of Four to extend it to Kong Qiu for no reason, restore slavery and set back history. If we say that the movement of "Criticizing the Water Margin and Criticizing Song Jiang" initiated by the Gang of Four is because Song Jiang, known as "Timely Rain", not only had a "relationship between men and women" with Yan Poxi, but also betrayed the group interests of Liangshan heroes and surrendered to the court, giving the Gang of Four a braid to catch; Then, in the face of Guan Gong, the impeccable moral statue of the Chinese nation, it is extremely difficult to find a place to cut the butcher's knife of the cultural dictatorship of the Gang of Four.

The statue of Guan Yu has always stood in the kind hearts of China people!

Sadly, the "God-making Movement" initiated by the Gang of Four failed according to their evil calculation. They lack basic historical knowledge, that is, they can never be regarded as living gods. This is because there is a great time and space distance between man and the so-called God, which can produce the mystery and obscurity of "God". And the closer a great man is to him, the more he feels like a person. Moreover, the greatest leaders, after all, lack the so-called universal wisdom, and the greater the figures, the more likely they are to make major mistakes in the overall situation. Today, when this great man stepped down from the altar, our nation still needs to deeply reflect on an era through the lens of blood that has not completely evaporated!

"If Zhong Ni was not born in the sky, the long years would be as long as the night." A nation without philosophical giants is a nation with mental paralysis. A nation without great heroes is the most worthless creature in the world. When a nation's philosophical giants and great heroes died, they not only gave Superman's philosophical thoughts and noble character as a precious legacy to their own nation, but also to the whole world.

Today, Confucius has become the first of the "top ten philosophers" in the world in the history of mankind, which is a rare pride of the Chinese nation! As early as 1665, Guan Yu, a representative of national spirit, stood on the map of the world published by Austria-Hungary in Vienna and on the map of China. At that time, on the maps of countries around the world published in Vienna, only a great man was drawn at the top of each country's territory to represent its nation, which shows that our warrior Guan Yu had a far-reaching influence in the world at that time. In recent years, David Jiao, a doctor of anthropology at the University of Chicago in the United States, said after studying a lot of information about China's belief in Guan Yu, "I respect Guan Yu, the great god of the East, and he should be respected by everyone. His benevolence, righteousness, wisdom and courage are still meaningful until now. Benevolence is love, righteousness is honesty, wisdom is culture, and courage is courage. If all God's people are like Guan Gong, our world will be a better place. "

Faith is a big bird that announces the dawn, and it often eulogizes the arrival of the dawn in the dark; Faith is a brilliant light wave, which can guide human beings to constantly improve themselves. Guan Yu's mausoleum has long been arched with pine and cypress. Guan Sheng, as a giant cypress with the spirit of "loyalty and courage", still remains in our nation with its aromatic rosin and spreads its fragrance to every corner of the world.

According to the data collected by Guan Gong Research Association, Guan Di Temple has been built in 148 countries and regions in the world.

Taiwan Province Province, the treasure island of the motherland, has a population of more than 20 million, and more than 8 million compatriots are followers of Guan Sheng. On the island of Taiwan Province Province, there are more than 3,000 temples dedicated to Guan Sheng, and as many as14,000 temples dedicated to the emperor. Taiwan Province compatriots' obsession with Guan Sheng has reached an incredible level. A few days before paying homage to Guan Sheng at the Temple of Heaven in Taipei, even ladies and ladies with status had to get up in the middle of the night to queue up for registration, so as to become "volunteers" to pay homage to Guan Yu. If they arrive late, it will be difficult to queue up ... Enzhuming Temple (also called Guandi Temple) in Miaoli County, Taiwan was built in the 1970s. When celebrating the tenth anniversary of the construction of the temple,

Malaysia, located in the Nanyang Islands, is not too big, but it has more than 8,000 temples. Singapore, known as the country of gardens, has a loyalty temple in the city, which is magnificent like a palace. Japan is a big religious country, with no ghosts and no sense of religion. In many big cities, there are magnificent Guandi temples. During the festival, the business community and business tycoons led employees to visit Guandi Temple in batches, and sincerely United their subordinates in the spirit of "making friends in Taoyuan" to seek greater benefits for them.

Kant said: it is a moral necessity to set the existence of God.

A western philosopher once said: A great conscience is a temple.

In this sense, Guan Yu, who has been beautified and deified by hundreds of millions of people for thousands of years, is not only a bright and shining conscience sword hanging over people's heads, but also a national personality coordinate tempered by China people with traditional culture.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), with the repeated movement to get rid of superstitions, the temples in rural China have long since disappeared. Those who follow the enthusiastic line can only pay tribute to Guan Gong. After the reform and opening up, the overseas "Guan Gong fever" has warmed up the Guan Sheng complex dormant in the hearts of Chinese people. First of all, in some towns along the southeast coast, people once again invited Guan Gong to become the God of Wealth. Then, in Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan ... wherever Guan Yu left footprints before his death, the local government also set up a stage with Guan Yu culture and sang economic dramas.

Since the early 1990s, Guan Yu's hometown Yuncheng has held a seven-day Guan Gong Culture Festival every year in the golden autumn. During this period, Yuncheng was crowded with people. In Jiezhou Guandi Temple, criss-crossing, households are restricted to wear. Great sacrifices imitate the norms of sacrificing saints in Ming Dynasty. The musical instruments used are sheng, wind, swallow, flute, Zheng, drum, braid, pipa and cloud gong, which are full of the eight tones of ancient elegant music "gold, stone, silk, bamboo, earth, silk, leather and wood". Sacrifices for the ceremony are also made according to the old Ming Festival system, and the highest gift is too thick (whole cow, whole pig and whole sheep). Sacrificial procedures are divided into drumming, incense burning, initial sacrifice, initial sacrifice, tomb entry, final sacrifice, greeting, meteor watching and final sacrifice. In addition, it has also increased the drinking of blessing wine and various artistic performances ... It should be said that holding such sacrificial activities in the Guandi Temple in Jiezhou, known as the "ancestor of Wu Temple", is not only an exploration of culture.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Guan Opera was favored by the ruling and opposition parties. However, during Zhu Yuanzhang and Yong Zhengdi's accession to the throne, they were afraid that the actress would desecrate Guan Sheng, saying that "if there is an offender, the Ministry of Justice will investigate." . Ming Hongwu paid back the money, and Qing Yongzheng paid back the money. The emperors saw that the play was hard to accept and had to open it. However, there are many "laws and regulations" for Liyuan children to fulfill their relationships. For example, performing Kansai must use literary music and elegant music, not martial music and rough music used in martial arts; Actors must be good-looking, and must not have sex before the performance of Guanxi, or in January or half a month, and the elements must be lent; On the eve of the performance, the person who plays Guan Gong must take a bath; Before going on stage, all actors should burn incense and worship the saints; When performing, Guan Gong should behave like a gentleman and a saint. There are also many rules for the audience to watch Relationship, and everyone has to abide by them. Even Nora, the overbearing queen mother of Sita, had to leave her seat, step forward and make a respectful gesture before returning to her seat.

A few years ago, someone made a film about Guan Gong in Cao Ying to celebrate the completion of a new cinema. Who knows, just because there are several scenes of Guan Yu and two sisters-in-law flirting, the audience is filled with indignation and blood boiling. People rushed to the stage with angry eyes, blowing their lips and singing, breaking screens and setting fire to cinemas!