Why do they all worship Guan Gong?

In Luo Guanzhong's writing, as well as in people's daily life circulation Guan Gong is a symbol of righteousness, just like Zhuge Liang is a symbol of wisdom. Successive feudal rulers needed such a typical character to serve as the guardian of their rule, and thus exaggerated and exaggerated his loyalty, righteousness, courage and martial arts, hoping that more civil servants and military generals would be as loyal and righteous to the king as Guan Yu, and dedicate their courage to the countryside.

In the ancient Chinese endless celebrities, by the later generations to wear a dazzling halo and honored as a "saint", but there are only two people, they are honored by the people as the "saint of literature," Confucius and "saint of martial arts," Guan Gong. "

Guan Gong.

Gong Guan, whose real name was Guan Yu and whose character was Yun Chang, was born in 160 AD and died in 219 AD. Guan Gong in his nearly sixty years of life, horse and sword, galloped across the frontier, the battlefield, assisted Liu Bei to complete the tripod three great cause, composed a song of life that makes people feel a lot of feelings. As a famous general of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu can be said to have no achievements in the history of ancient Chinese thought. However, Guan Yu's life full of heroes and legends, but the later generations as "loyalty", "faith", "righteousness", "courage

The legendary life of the hero, but was elected by later generations as "loyalty", "faith", "righteousness", "courage" set in one of the moral model, and became the late feudal society in China, from the emperor to the generals, down to the scholar-peasants-industrialist widely worshipped by the sacred idol.

Gong Guan from "at that time, righteousness and courage of the three kingdoms" of Shu Han generals, to "ancient shrines all over the nine states" of the deification, sainthood idol, is China's feudal society into the late period, the social sectors of guan guan constantly embellish, sainthood and the deification of the results. From the Song and Yuan to the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the course of this history, up to the high living in the temple of the emperor and generals, down to the life-long labor of the common people, from waving the text of the literati students, dancing guns and swords of the reckless righteousness, to the hook bar tile house in the storytellers, the pear orchard in the performance of the play in the actor, and even far from the earthly world of the monks and monks, almost all converge one after another into the glorification of Guan Gong, the sainthood and the deification of the trend. In this wave higher than a wave of Guan Gong worship wave, from the Guan Gong body to discover and be added to the Guan Gong virtue and reputation, far more than the real Guan Gong in history, in China's feudal society almost reached the point of no one can be compared to and beyond. Thus, living in the Three Kingdoms era of Guan Gong, in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, it gradually transcends the ordinary, the green clouds, from a full of tragic colors of the earthly heroes, turned into a sacred idol of the ten thousand people worship.

China into the modern and modern society, the respect and even worship of Guan Gong, did not at home and abroad in the Chinese greatly cooled down. Especially in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan compatriots and Chinese living abroad, for the worship, worship of Guan Gong, is still hot, forming a unique cultural landscape.

Maintaining and inheriting the excellent moral traditions of the Chinese nation, promoting and strengthening the national cultural identity of Chinese people at home and abroad are the new values and roles of the spirit of Guan Gong and Guan Gong culture in the contemporary society.

So, Hong Kong people value righteousness and friendship, and have more faith in traditional Chinese culture, and the trend of worshipping Guan Gong has come about.