Guan Yu 关羽

关羽，本字长生，后改字云长，河东解良（山西运城）人。东汉末年著名将领，自刘备于乡里聚众起兵开始追随刘备，是刘备最为信任的将领之一。在关羽去世后，其形象逐渐被后人神化，历来是民间祭祀的对象，被尊称为“关公”，崇为“武圣”，与“文圣”孔子齐名。长篇历史小说《三国演义》也对关羽的事迹多有描写，在《演义》中关羽被描写为“五虎大将”之首，毛宗岗称其为“《演义》三绝”中的“义绝”。

Guan Yu, born in Xieliang, Hedong (now Yuncheng, Shanxin) was a prominent general in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Changsheng was his courtesy name before it was changed to Yunchang. Guan, as one of Liu Bei’s most trusted generals, had begun to follow Liu Bei since Liu Bei’s gathering countrymen for an uprising. Following his death, Guan Yu was deified, revered as “Lord Guan” and was respectfully titled a “Saint of War”, which is of the same rank as Confucius, who was known as the “Saint of Culture”. Guan Yu was depicted in sufficiently generous terms in the long historical novel called Romance of the Three Kingdoms, wher he was described as the head of “Five Tiger Generals”. He was referred to as “the most faithful person to friends” in the “The three ‘most’” in the Romance of Three Kingdoms by Mao Zonggang.

主要成就：斩颜良等名将，蜀汉建国功臣。

Major achievements: killing famous soldiers including Yan Liang, and playing an important role in the establishment of the State of Shu Han