There are two ways of saying whether Liu Bei had five tiger generals or four tiger generals in the history of the Three Kingdoms: a

Five Tiger Generals, first recorded in the Yuan Dynasty, the folk novel "Three Kingdoms Zhi Pingtan", written during the Three Kingdoms period Liu Bei's five generals Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun. The original text is called "Five Tiger Generals".

Professor Yi Zhongtian said that historically there were only four tiger generals in Shu.

No Zhao Yun. But Zhao Yun wasn't an army general either.

Chen Shou said, "Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun were strong and powerful, and they were the best of their kind, but they were also the best of their kind."

The meaning of this is not clear, but Chen Shou was originally a vassal of Shu Han.

This shows that Zhao Yun was a great general in the hearts of the Shu Han people.

Basically, the only exception to the Four Tigers was Zhao Yun, who was not taken seriously,

but could not be said to be a miscellaneous general or anything like that.

And anyone who has read the Three Kingdoms knows that the two are one and the same.

It is second only to Zhuge Liang. And the five generals are all known as tiger generals.

Professor Yi Zhongtian said that there are no five tiger generals from the ancient official position.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Yun was named General of Zhen Jun. But there is no such official position in history.

There were only Zhendong, Zhenxi, Zhenbei and Zhennan.

That's why Prof. Yi Zhongtian said there were four tiger generals.