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Why can't a woman touch Master Guan?

According to legend, Guan Gong (Guan Di) was a moral saint. He is not close to women. If a woman approaches him, he will be angry and angry. Therefore, women should not give him incense.

After Guan Yu's death, people respected Guan Gong and many imperial courts praised him. During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, he was honored as a warrior sage, with the same status as Confucius in Wen Sheng.

In the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he ranked first among the five tiger generals, using the dragon crescent moon blade. Mao Zonggang called it one of the three wonders of love. In terms of religious culture, Guan Yu was honored by Confucianism as Emperor Guan Sheng and Emperor Wenheng, by Buddhism as the protector of Galand Bodhisattva and the ancient Buddha who built heaven, and by Taoism as the God of Heaven and Han Xiang.

Guan Gong introduced in detail as follows:

At the end of Han Dynasty, he fled to Zhuo Jun, and Zhang Fei set out from Liu Bei. When Liu Bei arrived in Xuzhou, he made Guan Yu the satrap. In the fifth year of Jian 'an (200 years), Cao Cao marched eastward, defeated Liu Bei, and Guan Yu was captured. Later, he followed Cao Cao to meet Yuan in Guandu, stabbed Yuan's general Yan Liang to death in the crowd, named Han as Shou Tinghou, and soon surrendered to Liu Bei.

Later, Liu Bei attached himself to Jingzhou to shepherd Liu Biao. In the 13th year of Jian 'an (208), Cao Cao entered Jingzhou, and Liu Bei led many people to flee to the south, and Guan Yu followed him to Xiakou. While Cao Cao was defeated in Chibi, Liu Bei took over the counties in the south of the Yangtze River and appointed Guan Yu as the prefect and general of Xiangyang. Liu Beixi decided Yizhou and made Guan Yu keep Jingzhou. In the twentieth year of Jian 'an (2 15), Guan Yu tried his best to expel the chief officials of Changsha, Lingling and Guiyang, which were placed by Sun Quan.

In the twenty-fourth year of Jian 'an (2 19), he was worshipped as a former general and besieged the southern general Cao in Fancheng. At that time, the Hanshui River flooded, and all the seven armies of General Zuo were submerged in the forbidden area, and General Pound was beheaded. He promised that south of Xuchang, Henan Province, there were often distant responses, which greatly shocked China.

Cao Cao sent General Hiraguchi to rescue him, and Wu took advantage of the situation to attack Jiangling. Guan Yu was defeated in Maicheng (now southeast of Dangyang, Hubei Province) and was captured and killed by Wu Jun together with his son Guan Ping. Chasing a strong marquis. Good at Zuo Zhuan, good at soldiers and arrogant scholar-officials, known for loyalty.