As a symbol of loyalty and bravery during the Three Kingdoms period, Guan Yu is worshipped by posterity and is a hero who has been influenced so far. After Guan Yu died, his head was in a different place, thousands of miles apart, and he was buried in two places!
In the winter of 219, Sun Quan attacked Jingzhou, Guan Yu retreated to Maicheng and returned to heaven. In the first month of the spring of 220, Sun Quan was afraid of Liu Bei's revenge and dedicated Guan Yu's head to Cao Cao to see how Cao handled this problem. In order to transfer the contradiction.
As early as when the 18th princes were discussing Dong Zhuo, Guan Yu Wenjiu became famous in the world, and after the three British battles Lu Bu, Cao Cao admired Guan Yu very much. Liu Bei was defeated in Xuzhou, and Guan Yu was forced to stay in Cao Ying. He made a three-part agreement with Cao Cao: to bring down the Han but not to Cao, to solve the white horse siege for Cao Cao, to cut Yan Liang and punish Wen Chou. After learning that Liu Bei was behind, he rode solo for thousands of miles, passed five stages and cut six generals, cut the Cai Yang brothers to explain their doubts, and reunited the three brothers in the ancient city. During the Battle of Chibi, Guan Yu released Cao Cao on Huarong Road in return.
Cao Cao saw through Sun Quan’s conspiracy to present Guan Yu’s first-level conspiracy, and with respect to Guan Yu, he would give Guan Yu as King Jing and carved agarwood as his body. He was buried at 15 li south of Luoyang City in the honor of a prince, and he was buried. At that time, hundreds of civil and military officials were also required to go to the funeral together. As said, Cao Cao also said a lot in front of Guan Yu's grave. One of the lines was "Guan Yu, the biggest mistake of your life is to follow the wrong master." This shows Cao Cao's admiration and appreciation for Guan Yu.
After Cao Cao buried Guan Yu and built a temple for sacrifice, it was later expanded to Guanlin. It has been 1800 years. After the death of Guan Yu, he was gradually deified, and he was revered as "Guan Gong" by the people, also known as Mei Yan Gong. The courts of the past dynasties have many praises. In the Qing Dynasty, they were regarded as "the loyal god of martial arts, martial spirit, and bravery, the great emperor Guan Sheng," and worshipped as "wusheng", as well as "wensheng" Confucius. Guandi temples are all over the world. Guan Lin has attracted much attention because it is Guan Yu's first burial place!
Guanlin is adjacent to the ancient city of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the north, Longmen Grottoes in the south, Luolong Avenue in the west, and clear stream of Yishui in the east. Guanlin is one of the three major Guan Temples at home and abroad. It is the only ancient classic building in China that combines the tomb, temple, and forest. Guan Yu's tomb is just behind the temple. Guanlin was built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and was expanded during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The existing buildings are mainly from the Ming Dynasty, which is a well-preserved ancient building complex.
Guanlin’s architectural specifications were built in accordance with the palace form, with a rigorous and spectacular layout. There is a stage in front of the temple, and the central axis of the building has gates, yimen, corridors, worship halls, main halls, second halls, third halls, stone archways, forest stele pavilions, and Guan tombs. Other symmetrical buildings of the same form are attached to both sides of the central axis. The tomb of Guan Yu is behind the temple.
The burial place of Guan Yu’s head, 17 meters high, with an area of 2600 square meters. The south wall of the front of the tomb has a stone tomb gate built in the 56th year of Kangxi. "Zhong Ling Chu", the tomb door couplet is: "Shenyou Shangyuan rides on the crane, the bones of the dragon sleep in the sky". The tomb began at the end of the Han Dynasty, and now the green grass is like a cover, and the dust is high. Although the country has changed, the Yuan tomb remains. Guan Lin has never been stolen, mainly because people respect and admire Guan Yu!
"Guanlin Cuibai" is one of Luoyang's "Eight Small Scenes", ancient cypress thousand chapters, verdant round, whenever the heavy rain rushes to clear the sky, the clouds are like smoke, like a curvy fragrant seal, leisurely flowing around the mound, The fantasy scene is amazing. For thousands of years, Guan Yu has been widely admired by the people as the embodiment of loyalty and moral example. His "loyalty, benevolence and bravery" embodies the spirit of our Chinese nation, and the special cultural phenomenon of "Guan Gong Belief" formed from this has become a bridge and link to connect Chinese people and family at home and abroad.
For 1800 years, Guanlin has become a sanctuary for Chinese at home and abroad, and a well-known tourist destination at home and abroad. (Follow the WeChat public account: NJHFHHH, feel the history while traveling)
