How did the legend of Chiyou fighting Guan Yu emerge? What is salt culture?

It is well known that Chiyou was a figure in the ancient times, while Guan Yu was a figure in the Three Kingdoms period, and they couldn’t fight each other with eight strokes. How did the legend of Chiyou fighting Guan Yu emerge? What is salt culture?

During the Yuan Dynasty, there was a legend of “Chiyou fighting Guan Yunchang”, which had a lot to do with the social background at that time. As we know, the Ming and Qing Dynasties was a period of great prosperity for Chinese novels, while the Yuan Dynasty before that took drama as the mainstream of social culture.

According to the development of people’s thoughts at that time, boring words were not as vivid as those displayed on the stage, so many folk legends and stories would be put on the stage of the Yuan Dynasty. As a stage play, there must be a contradiction. Chiyou once again appeared on the stage of the Yuan Dynasty as a villain.

At that time, it was Guan Yunchang, a famous general in the Three Kingdoms Period, who fought in Chiyou. In fact, as early as after the death of Guan Yu in the Three Kingdoms, he was already the “Chinese martial god” in the hearts of the Chinese people at that time. His image of loyalty has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Chiyou and his typical opposition as good and evil naturally appeared on the stage as opponents.

The main image of Chiyou in the play is also interpreted to some extent, which is roughly the relationship between Chiyou and the salt culture in the Central Plains. In ancient times, salt was an important condiment, which was often used in daily life and cooking, while Chiyou people had different understandings of salt culture.

Chiyou was a member of the Jiuli nationality. At that time, after the war between Yanhuang and Yanhuang, the people under its jurisdiction were not completely destroyed. Except for some main leaders, all the other Jiuli people were released. Since then, they have developed independently. The Yao nationality formed later is actually the descendants of the Chiyou nationality.

Their understanding of salt is different from that of people in the Central Plains. They believe that salt tastes salty and blood tastes salty, so sweat, blood and salt should be the same thing and beneficial to themselves, so they don’t want to waste it easily. In order to get these so-called “salt and blood”, these Yao people often attack the Central Plains.

At first, they only attacked some salt traders, but later they killed people and took blood according to their beliefs, which caused the resentment of the general public. In this case, the drama of Guan Yu’s war against Chi You came into being, and naturally ended in Chi You’s failure. Here, Chi You’s image changed again.

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