Why do Cantonese worship Guan Gong? What's the story? (Hehe, Guanyin is worshipped in my hometown)

Guan Yu is famous for his loyalty, righteousness, courage and martial arts. The feudal rulers of past dynasties all needed typical figures like the patron saint to maintain their rule, so they greatly exaggerated and exaggerated their loyalty, bravery and ethics, hoping that more civil servants and military officers would be as loyal to the king and brave as Guan Yu.

In ancient China, there were only two celebrities who were honored as "saints" by later generations. One was Confucius, who was honored as "Wen Sheng" by the people, and the other was Guan Gong, a "warrior saint".

Guan Yu, whose real name is Guan Yu, was born in 160 and died in 2 19. In his nearly 60 years of life, Guan Gong rode a sword, galloped on the battlefield, fought bloody battles, assisted Liu Bei in completing the great cause of tripartite confrontation, and composed a magnificent and touching song of life. Guan Gong, as a famous soldier in the Three Kingdoms, made no achievements in the history of ancient China's thoughts. However, Guan Yu's life was full of heroic legends, and he was recommended as a moral model of "loyalty", "faithfulness", "righteousness" and "courage" by later generations. He became a sacred idol in the late feudal society of China, and was widely worshipped from emperors to princes to scholars, industry and commerce.

Guan Gong was deified from a famous Shu Han who dared to pour out the Three Kingdoms at that time into a deified idol with ancestral temples all over Kyushu, which was the result of constant beautification, deification and deification of Guan Gong by all sectors of society since the late feudal society in China. From the Song and Yuan Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, from the emperors and generals living in temples to the common people who worked all their lives, from the literati and students who spent their lives writing and writing, the careless and benevolent people who spent their swords and guns, to the storytellers in Goulan Vacherie, the actors and actresses in the pear garden, and even the monks and Taoists who lived far away from the world, almost all gradually merged into the trend of beautifying and deifying Guan Gong. In this wave of worship of Guan Yu, the virtue and reputation excavated from Guan Yu and added to Guan Yu far exceeded the real Guan Yu in history, and almost reached an unparalleled level in China feudal society. As a result, Guan Gong, who lived in the Three Kingdoms period, gradually rose to the top of the world during the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, from a tragic human hero to a sacred idol worshipped by the whole people.

After China entered the modern society, his respect and even worship for Guan Gong has not greatly cooled among Chinese at home and abroad. Especially compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese, the worship of Guan Gong is still in full swing, forming a unique cultural landscape.

It is the new value and function of Guan Gong spirit and Guan Gong culture in contemporary society to maintain and inherit the excellent moral tradition of the Chinese nation and promote and enhance the recognition of Chinese people at home and abroad to national culture.

Therefore, China people attach great importance to loyalty and friendship, and they believe in traditional culture, which leads to the atmosphere of worshipping Guan Yu.