Why Guan Yu head pillow Luoyang body lying in Dangyang?

Guan Yu, the character Yun Chang, the character Changsheng, Hedong Xieliang people, the Three Kingdoms period Shu famous general. Along with Zhang Fei, he was called "the enemy of ten thousand men".

Guan Yu was a young man who practiced martial arts and farming at home. He was known as the Bearded Lord because of his familiarization with Zuo Zhuan (The Chronicle of Zuo) and his long flowing beard.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms portrayed Guan Yu as a loyal, righteous, benevolent and courageous military general, who came out of the Peach Orchard with Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, and although he traveled with Liu Bei, he was still able to cut down and kill the enemy, showing his great power. To repay Cao Cao's kindness in the White Horse Slope, Yan Liang killed Wen Chou and warned Cao Cao that his third brother Zhang Fei had the courage of a million men, and then in Huarong Road and could not bear to kill Cao Cao to let him go. Xiangfan battle with Pound battle by its backstabbing, resulting in later single combat with Xu Huang when the right arm less power can not win, but also because of Lv Meng white across the river to attack Jingzhou, Guan Yu belly and back, defeat, and later killed.

Sun Quan gave Guan Yu's head to Cao Cao, who buried him in Luoyang as a vassal. Sun Quan, on the other hand, buried Guan Yu's body with the rites of a vassal in Dangyang, the Guan Mausoleum, also known as the Dangyang Great King's Mound. The Shu Han Dynasty built a tomb for Guan Yu in Chengdu, which is the Tomb of Guan Yu in Chengdu, in order to invite souls to worship. Therefore, the folk also said that Guan Yu "head pillow Luoyang, body lying in Dangyang, the soul returns to his hometown."

Guanyu body cohesion for everyone **** look up to the loyalty, righteousness, trust, wisdom, benevolence, courage, contains the traditional Chinese changes in ethics, morality, ideals, penetrate the Confucianism of the Spring and Autumn essence, and for the doctrine of the convergence of the values of life, in essence, is the atmosphere of the vast "Chinese soul".

Guanyu's shrines and temples are all over the world. Guan Yu is not only worshipped by Confucianism, but also by Taoism and Buddhism, so Guan Yu has become a deity of the three major sects of China: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Therefore, Guan Yu was honored as the "King of Wu" and the "Sage of Wu", standing side by side with Confucius. In addition to soldiers and martial artists who worship him as the "patron saint" of their profession, even unrelated industries such as the goldsmithing industry, the tobacco industry, the incense and candle industry, the education industry, etc., also revere Guan Yu, and in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States, wherever there is a Chinese neighborhood, there will be people who worship Guan Yu. Therefore, he is also known as the "God of Wealth".