Guan Yu's five senses

According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu said: "It is nine feet long and must be two feet long; The phoenix eye, the silkworm eyebrow, the face is as heavy as a jujube, and if the lips are coated with fat, the dragon crescent moon blade makes the red rabbit horse. "

The "one foot" in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period is about 24.2 cm today. In other words, Guan Yu's "nine feet high" should be about 2. 17 meters after conversion.

That is to say, Guan Yu is 2. 17m tall, with a beard of 48.4cm long, a phoenix eye, a lying silkworm eyebrow, blushing like a jujube and red lips like rouge. He rode a red hare with a dragon crescent moon blade.

Extended data

Chen Shou: "Guan Yu and Zhang Fei both claim to be enemies of ten thousand people, and they are tiger ministers in the world. Feathering Cao Gong, flying Yan Yan, has the wind of a national scholar. But the feather is just proud, flying violently without grace, and it is normal to defeat with short service. "

In Chinese drama, Guan Yu belongs to the "raw" angle, and his facial makeup is also very distinctive. There are seven moles on his face, three in the middle of his eyebrows and two in his left and right nose. Seven Zhu Shazhi, a little bloody, especially imposing.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Guan Yu