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Guan Yu ( Wade-Giles spelling: Kuan Yu ) ( died 219 ) was a general serving under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han Dynasty of China.
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The two warriors are the historical general Guan Yu from the late Han Dynasty and the bodhisattva Skanda, who appears in the Chinese classical novel Fengshen Bang.
Some believed it comes from the late Han era and was said to have been used by the Han general Guan Yu.
Besides, historical accounts of the Three Kingdoms era had several specific records of Guan Yu thrusting his opponents down ( probably with a spear-like polearm ) in battles, instead of cutting them down with a curved-blade.
Taoism has a presence in Shanghai in the form of several temples, including the City God Temple, at the heart of the old city, and a temple dedicated to the Three Kingdoms general Guan Yu.
* Green Dragon Crescent Blade, a guan dao wielded by General Guan Yu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Burning of incense during the veneration of lord Guan Yu # Worship of Guan Yu | Guan Yu, Xingtian Temple
Liu Bei, together with his followers Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, fled to Cao Cao, who accepted him.
* Guan Yu, great general of Shu, floods the city of Fancheng in the Battle of Fancheng, while Lü Meng of Eastern Wu captures his home base.
Guan Yu retreats and is defeated at Battle of Maicheng.
* Guan Ping, son of Guan Yu
* Guan Yu, celebrated general of Liu Bei
* Pang De ( executed by Guan Yu )
Meantime, Lu Su and Gan Ning advanced to Yiyang ( 益陽 ) with 10, 000 men ( to block Guan Yu ) and took over command of the army at Lukou ( 陸口 ).
Liu Bei personally went to Gong ' an and Guan Yu led 30, 000 men to Yiyang.
In 219, Guan Yu advanced north, attacking Fancheng, scoring a major victory over Cao Ren.
While Fancheng did not fall at this time, Guan Yu put it under siege, and the situation was severe enough that Cao Cao considered moving the capital away from Xu.
Guan and Wade-Giles
In Mandarin Chinese it is Hanyu Pinyin: Guan Wade-Giles: Kuan.
Mandarin Wade-Giles is Han, Xian, Guan.
Guan and Kuan
Statues and tapestry images of the god can be found in a number of historical California joss houses ( a local term for Taoist temples ), where his name may be given with various Anglicized spellings, including Kwan Dai, Kwan Tai, Kuan Ti, Kuan Kung, Wu Ti, Mo Dai, Guan Di, Kuan Yu, Kwan Yu, or Quan Yu.
Yu Kuan, Yu Guan, Kuan Ti, Guan Di, Yun-chang Kuan, Yunchang Guan, Kuan Yun-chang, Guan Yunchang
Guan may refer to either of three Chinese family names ( both rendered in Cantonese as Kwan, or also in English as Kuan, Kwan, Quan, or Quon ).
Guan ( 官 ) is a Chinese family name, Guan, Kuan, Quan, Gwan, Kwan in common, origin from ;
* Emperor Guan Temples ( dedicated to Guan Yu, also referred to as Kuan Yu, Kwan Tai )
Guan and died
However, the three brothers do not die on the same day: Guan Yu was executed by Sun Quan in 220, Zhang Fei was assassinated by his own men in 221, and Liu Bei died of illness in 223 after his disastrous defeat at the Battle of Xiaoting a year before his death.
* Guan Tianpei ( 1780 – 1841 ), Chinese national hero ; died during the Opium War.
Guan Ping ( died 219 ) was the oldest son of the military general Guan Yu and older brother of Guan Xing.
However, following the execution of Guan Yu, Red Hare refused to eat and died of starvation.
When the general Liao Hua told Liu Bei that Guan Yu died because Liu Feng and Meng Da did not send reinforcements, Liu Bei began to resent the two and even plotted their arrest.
However, Sun's generals laid a solid defense line despite their inferior manpower ; when Cao Wei tried to broke that line with a charge, Sun Guan went to the foremost of the van and was fatally injured ( albeit being saved by Zang on the field, Sun died in camp ).
Guan and 219
In 219, Guan Yu attacked the nearby enemy city of Fancheng ( present-day Fancheng District, Xiangyang, Hubei ), which was guarded by Cao Ren, and besieged it.
An armed conflict between Liu and Sun quickly developed, because in 219 Sun had ambushed Liu's long-serving general Guan Yu to retake his western Jing Province ( 荊州, modern Hubei and Hunan ), which Liu had controlled.
In 219, Cao Cao's cousin and leading general Cao Ren was besieged at the fortress at Fancheng ( 樊城 ; present-day Fancheng District, Hubei ) by Guan Yu.
In 219, Guan Yu attacked Cao Cao's fortress at Fancheng while leaving troops behind to defend against a possible attack from Lü Meng.
He was best noted for breaking the siege at the Battle of Fancheng in 219 by routing enemy general, Guan Yu, on the field.
By 219, Liu Bei had seized Yi Province from the warlord Liu Zhang, but Jing Province was still under his control and governed by his general Guan Yu.
When Guan Yu marched on Xiangyang in 219, Liao Hua and Guan Ping were made leaders of the vanguard.
In 219, Liu Bei's most trusted general Guan Yu came in force to take Fan.
In 219 AD Guan Yu along with Guan Ping led an expedition against Wei.
In 219, Cao Ren was besieged by Liu Bei's general Guan Yu at Fancheng.
He succeeded his father when both Guan Yu and Guan Ping were captured and executed by forces of Eastern Wu at the invasion of Jing Province in 219.
Later, Man Chong became governor of Runan, and helped Cao Ren defend Fancheng ( present-day Fancheng District, Xiangyang, Hubei ) against Guan Yu at the Battle of Fancheng in 219, acting as an advisor to Cao Ren.
When Guan Yu met his end at the hands of Lü Meng in 219, the blade was given to Pan Zhang by Sun Quan for his role in capturing of Guan Yu.
In 219, when Guan Yu was being surrounded by Sun Quan's forces in Maicheng ( 麥城 ), Liu Feng refused to provide reinforcements partly because Meng Da reminded Liu Feng of Guan Yu's disapproval.
In 219, Mi Fang surrendered to Sun Quan, directly resulting in the loss of Jing Province ( present-day Hubei and Hunan ) and the death of Guan Yu.
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