Who were the 5 Tiger Generals in the Three Kingdoms period?

Five Tiger Generals is firstly from "The Three Kingdoms", referring to the five fierce generals under the command of Liu Bei, namely Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun, the original text describes as "five tiger generals", and the later people used to call them "five tiger generals". The number combination of "five" reflects the traditional Chinese thinking about the five elements, five directions, five colors, five sounds and other mysterious structures.

The Five Tiger Generals is a fictionalized folklore, and there is no record of it in the official history, while the "Three Kingdoms" and the "Three Kingdoms" are the five important generals of the Shu Han Dynasty, collectively known as the Five Tiger Generals. The original order of the Five Tiger Generals was: Guan, Zhang, Ma, Huang and Zhao, which was recorded in the "Plain Language of the Three Kingdoms" or the early version of the "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms". But the Qing dynasty Mao Lun, Mao pig just father and son, because of personal taste in order to elevate Zhao Yun and disparage Ma Chao, said this paragraph: Ma Chao character brutality, no courage and no strategy, can only do war generals, can not do generals, the other four can be a unique. Historically or Jiajing version of the record Ma Chao, the evaluation is both civil and military, male martyrdom over people. But after the Mao book after the courage and tactless Ma Chao slowly began to shape out, although the Mao's father and son commented on the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" than the original literature is more fluent, but at the same time, also add too many personal preferences and tastes, so that future generations are followed by their thinking to understand the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Liu Bei for Hanzhong King when sealed Guan Zhang Zhao Ma Huang for the five tiger generals, the matter of the "Three Kingdoms" in the "Three Kingdoms" did not specifically record, and in the "Huayang Guo Zhi" mentioned: Guan Yu for the former general, Zhang Fei for the right general, Ma Chao for the left general, all fake section battle-axe. And Huang Zhong for the rear general, Zhao Yun Yijun general. The rest into the official number. That is to say, "Huayang Guozhi" believes that the five appointed generals are the most important generals in Shu.