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Chapter 118 The Famous Minister's Alternative Face 2
The black-faced Zhang Fei is actually an elegant scholar
With the spread of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhang Fei's image has been fixed by people as a brash warrior with a distinctive personality, and he will not be associated with the culture at all.In fact, the real Zhang Fei is not only capable of both civil and military skills, but also talented. He is a famous calligrapher and painter. He especially likes to draw beauties, and he also writes beautiful cursive script.

According to Zhuo Erchang's "Hua Sui Yuan Quan" in the Ming Dynasty: "Zhang Fei likes painting beauties and is good at cursive script." Qing Dynasty's "Painting Records of Past Dynasties" records: "Zhang Fei, a native of Zhuozhou, likes painting beauties."

Today, people in Zhuozhou say that the "Nuwa Mending the Sky" on the north wall of the Drum Tower in Zhuozhou was painted by Zhang Fei.

The earliest records about Zhang Feihui's calligraphy can be found in Tao Hongying's "Sword Record" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is said that Zhang Fei worshiped Xintinghou and personally wrote the inscription on swords: "Xintinghou, the general of Shu." The "Danqian Zonglu" of the Ming Dynasty also recorded: "Fuling There is an inscription by Zhang Fei Diao Dou. Its writing is very skillful, and it is also written by Fei." It is a pity that these physical evidences have died, and there is no way to verify them.

Around the Ming Dynasty, a cliff carving was discovered in Liujiang County, Sichuan.This is "Zhang Fei Li Ma Ming", also known as "Bameng Cliff". "Three Kingdoms" records that in the autumn of the 23rd year of Jian'an (218), Liu Bei and Cao Cao competed for Hanzhong, and Cao Cao ordered Zhang He to lead [-] troops to invade Bazhou.Liu Bei ordered Zhang Fei to lead tens of thousands of soldiers to meet Mengtou (that is, Bameng Mountain, in Quxian County, Sichuan Province).Zhang Fei defeated many with less, defeated the famous general Zhang He and fled.

At that time, Zhang Fei was very happy, so he took advantage of the wine and chiseled on the cliff with a Zhangba snake spear and stabbed it with a stone instead of paper. Two lines of large characters in official script that are the same as the text of the "Lima Ming" read: Thousands of people, the first to defeat the bandits is Zhang Yun in Bameng, and he will be inscribed immediately." To show his achievements and encourage the soldiers, and also to humiliate Cao Jun.Its characters are official script, and the writing power is very strong. There are still cliffs in Quxian County, eastern Sichuan.Regarding this matter, Qing Ji Xiaolan had a poem praising it: "Who knows the rubbings of the cliff characters, the chariot general wrote it by himself."

A closer look at the rubbings of the inscriptions shows that the strokes are full and vigorous, and the momentum is vigorous and dignified.The "silkworm head" is hidden in the horizontal painting, and the "swallow tail" is obvious, which has a very tactful charm.The center forward hides the front like a cone and paints sand, which is very delicate.The overall layout is not impetuous, extremely serious, without the slightest recklessness.

On both sides of the statue of Zhang Fei in the Huanhou Temple in Langzhong, there is a famous couplet written by the famous poet Liushahe: "Xie Hongtao in the garden, the elder brother Xuande and the second brother Yu; the country has a history of youth, three parts of the tripod and eight parts of the book." This couplet is read by Liushahe Zhang Fei wrote it after the temple, commenting that Zhang Fei is a hero with both civil and military skills. The "eight-point book" mentioned in the couplet refers to the good calligraphy stories left by Zhang Fei when he was guarding Langzhong.The official script of the Han Dynasty was called "Han Bafen", "Bafen, the back is also, and the left and right distributions are opposite to each other".

The poem "Zhang Yide Ancestral Hall" of Wuzhen in the Yuan Dynasty said: "Guan Hou satirized the Zuo family, and the chariots and riders changed their books. Although the tastes of civil and military affairs are different, the ancients have more than one taste. If you think about the strength of your wrists, it is difficult to look like you." The chariots are Zhang Fei , he paid homage to General Cheqi in the first year of Zhangwu (221).What Wu Zhen means is that Zhang Fei's calligraphy is very accomplished, even the famous calligrapher of the Three Kingdoms period - Wei's Zhong Yao, and Wu's emperor's portrait may not be comparable.This is a high evaluation of Zhang Fei's calligraphy art.

It is said that Zhang Fei can also write poems and fus. After defeating Zhang Yun, he led his troops to tour Zhenduo Mountain. .Snow, stay is the way to go.” The nineteen-character travel scriptures, blending scenes, concise words and profound meanings, imperceptibly reveal a sense of beauty, reflecting Zhang Fei’s inner literary accomplishment.

In addition, Zhang Fei has two daughters, who married Liu Chan successively, one as a concubine and the other as a queen.To be able to be a queen, judging from the ancient standards of empress virtue and beauty and Liu Adou's desire for beauty, their self-cultivation and appearance should at least be considered good.According to modern genetics, temperament and appearance are both inherited. If Zhang Fei is really a rough man like in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", how can he give birth to such a daughter?
It can be seen from the above that the real Zhang Fei is actually a well-educated all-rounder in both civil and military affairs, but why do people keep calling him Meng Zhang Fei or even Reckless Zhang Fei?This may have something to do with the preconceptions caused by the description at the beginning of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the exaggeration of unofficial history, folklore and opera.

At the beginning of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhang Fei's appearance was introduced, using "a leopard head with ring eyes, a swallow jaw and a tiger beard", and his identity is a butcher who kills pigs and sells wine.People of later generations generally like to seek their roots and ancestors in their own industries. For example, carpenters honor Lu Ban as their ancestors, shoemakers honor Liu Bei as their ancestors, brush makers honor Mengtian as their ancestors, tofu makers honor Huainan King Liu An as their ancestors, and pig butchers honor their ancestors. Taking Zhang Fei as his ancestor, he also made up a story that Zhang Fei killed a pig with only one knife, which he called Zhang Yidao. If the pig didn't die, he would suffocate it with his hands.In "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhang Fei was ready to kill as soon as he appeared on the stage.Such a rude and uneducated image is actually very different from the real and elegant Zhang Fei.

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