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Zhou Yu, also known as Gongjin, is a celebrity both in history and in games.

But for a long time, due to the influence of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and film and television dramas, people's understanding of Zhou Yu is not comprehensive, or even one-sided. If we want to rank the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, they have been misunderstood and blackened. In the ranking of characters, Zhou Yu can definitely be in the top three. ?

So, what kind of person is Zhou Yu? And where is Zhou Yu from? Regarding the former issue, official history and the majority of literati have given a fair evaluation. However, the latter issue is not so easy to distinguish. To this day, Lujiang County and Shucheng County in Anhui Province are still "red-faced" over this issue. They say it’s their own anyway. After all, who would let go of such a big IP so easily?

"Three Kingdoms·Wu Shu·Zhou Yu Biography", which is more reliable than "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", records that Zhou Yu "has a magnificent temperament and is very likely to win people." Translated, it means that Zhou Yu has a good character and is generous. Da is by no means the narrow-minded person who was angered to death by Zhuge Liang in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". This must be made clear.

When talking about Zhou Yu, he still has many "labels", such as being a second-generation official, being successful as a young man, having both clerical skills, being a talented king, handsome, proficient in music, talented and beautiful, respected by others, and heroic. Die young and so on. Zhou Yu's father's name is Zhou Yi. He once served in the Luoyang Order and was a colleague of Cao Cao, but Zhou Yu is 20 years younger than Cao Cao.

Zhou Yu and Sun Ce, both from aristocratic families, knew each other in their early years. There is no written record of the scene when they first met, but it is certain that the two young men of the same age must have hit it off and formed a deep friendship. friendship.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, most of Zhou Yu's hometown, which is today's Anhui, was under the jurisdiction of Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu also liked Zhou Yu very much and wanted to re-employ Zhou Yu, but Zhou Yu did not care about Yuan Shu and soon led his troops to defect to Sun Ce. After that, Zhou Yu followed Sun Ce in the decisive battle between the two formations, and made great achievements in the series of battles to pacify Jiangdong. After Sun Ce was assassinated, Zhou Yu continued to be reused by Sun Quan as an important minister.

Although Zhou Yu was young, he was highly respected by the generals in Soochow. The "Jiang Biao Biography" said that he "could not tolerate others and refused to teach". Veteran generals Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and other Sun Jian's old generals He was even more convinced by the young Zhou Yu. In 208 AD, after the victory at Chibi, Zhou Yu's personal prestige reached its peak. At the same time, he saw Liu Bei's ambitions early and suggested that Sun Quan put Liu Bei under house arrest and seek Yizhou westward. Sun Quan approved Zhou Yu's strategic plan to conquer Yizhou. , but did not accept the suggestion of placing Liu Bei under house arrest.

In 210 AD, Zhou Yu died of illness in Baqiu (now Yueyang, Hunan) on his way westward. He was only 36 years old. In fact, Sun Quan was very contradictory to Zhou Yu's death. Zhou Yu had already achieved great success. Lord, although Zhou Yu expressed his sincerity everywhere, as the leader of a country, Sun Quan had to guard against it. Secondly, Zhou Yu was the pillar of Jiangdong because he managed the army well. After Zhou Yu's death, no one in Jiangdong had the ambition to conquer the world, or in other words, they were powerless. If Zhou Yu had not died, there would have been no Liu Bei to take advantage of Jingzhou to expand westward and contribute to the Three Kingdoms.

So, where is Zhou Yu from?

Regarding this, "Three Kingdoms·Wu Shu·Biography of Zhou Yu" records: "Zhou Yu, whose courtesy name is Gongjin, was born in Lujiang Shu." The white characters and black characters are very clear, but what is embarrassing is that Lujiang at that time It does not refer to today's Lujiang County, but to Lujiang County, and Shu refers not to today's Shucheng County, but to Shu County at that time. Lujiang County was roughly a provincial-level division in the Han Dynasty, and its scope roughly included today's Hefei, Chaohu, Lu'an, Qianshan, Songyang, Wuwei and some places in Hubei. Today's Shucheng County and Lujiang County both belong to Lujiang County.

So what is going on in Shu County? Shu County is the seat of Lujiang County, which is also the administrative center of Lujiang County. Its jurisdiction is much larger than today's Shucheng County. It roughly includes today's Shucheng County, Lujiang County, Tongcheng City, Wuwei City, and Huaining County. And Sanhe Town, which means that today's Shucheng County and Lujiang County not only belong to Lujiang County, but also belong to Gushu County, which is a bit difficult to distinguish.

However, according to archaeological records, the ancient city wall ruins of Shu County are located in a place called "Chengchi Ridge" in Chengchi Village, Ketan Town, Lujiang County today. Archaeologists have initially recognized this. At the same time, there are still a large number of Zhou clan members living in and around Chengchi Village of Ketan Town. They took out the "Zhou Family Genealogy", which records that they are descendants of Zhou Yu, but this does not prove that Zhou Yu was born in Ketan Town Chengchi. Village, because there are many descendants of Zhou Yu, not only in Lujiang today, but also in Shucheng and Tongling.

In this regard, the people of Lujiang came up with the second strong evidence, Zhou Yu’s tomb. Zhou Yu's tomb is located in today's Chenguang Community of Lucheng City, Lujiang County, about 20 kilometers away from Ketan Town. It is now a provincial key cultural relics protection unit in Anhui Province. Since Zhou Yu's tomb is in Lujiang, what is there to fight for? Yes, because there is a debate about where Zhou Yu's tomb is. Zhou Yu died of illness in Baqiu, which is today's Yueyang, Hunan. Some people say that he was buried in Yueyang, while others say that Zhou Yu's tomb is in Susong, Wuhu, Shucheng, or Chaohu, even in Suzhou and Nanchang, to name a few. Although Zhou Yu's tomb located in Chenguang Community, Lucheng City, Lujiang County has the highest claim to be the real tomb, some people say that the person is buried where he is buried?

Since the people of Shucheng said that Zhou Yu was from Shucheng, they naturally would not say it out of nowhere. There are still Zhou Yucheng ruins in Yucheng Village, Qianchahe Town, 10 kilometers southwest of Shucheng County. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Anhui Province. It is said that Zhou Yu raised horses and trained soldiers here, and left a large number of stories and related sites, such as Zhou Yu's Well, Mother Worship Hall, Jingfan Temple, ancient pagoda and nearly 20 more places. In addition, people in Shucheng believe that Zhou Yu's tomb is not in Lujiang County, but on the Kaoluo Mountain on the north bank of the Wanfo Lake embankment in Shucheng. There is Zhou Yu's ancestral tomb, and Zhou Yu's tomb in Lujiang is a memorial tomb built by the Ming Dynasty.

To this day, Shucheng and Lujiang are still arguing over the ownership of Zhou Yu. The Anhui Provincial Government even held a special coordination meeting to coordinate the dispute over the trademark registration of "Zhou Yu's Hometown" and asked Shucheng Lujiang and Lujiang jointly share the trademark "Zhou Yu's Hometown". At this point, a win-win situation was born.

For such a good tourism and culture promotion IP as Zhou Yu, Shucheng and Lujiang will naturally not be idle. They will each show their talents and compete to build the Zhou Yu Cultural Park, hold the Zhou Yu Cultural Festival, and launch the Zhou Yu Cultural Research Association , carry out tourism promotion and peripheral creation around Zhou Yu. Shu Cheng said: Zhou Yu’s hometown, Shu Cheng welcomes you! Lujiang said: Zhou Yu’s hometown, the hometown of hot springs, Lujiang welcomes you!

It can be said that Shucheng and Lujiang counties have done their best to build the surrounding area around Zhou Yu, and have erected many statues of Zhou Yu at key locations. In 2013, Lujiang changed the name of the former "Jun Er Road" to " "Zhou Yu Avenue" is also the main road of Lujiang County. In February this year, Shucheng also renamed the former "Sanlihe Road" to "Zhou Yu Avenue", seemingly not to be outdone.

In fact, for the two counties of Shucheng and Lujiang, it is not easy to have a nationally known cultural IP. Naturally, they will not give up easily in terms of building city visibility, and the two counties revolve around Zhou Yu. Both the Zhou Yu Cultural Park in Lujiang and the Zhou Yu City in Shucheng are a good place for tourists to travel, relax and learn about the culture of the Three Kingdoms. One celebrity and two counties use it to benefit With 1.6 million people in the two counties, isn’t this a big win-win?

In the end, no matter whether he is from Shucheng or Lujiang, he belongs to Anhui! If you have the opportunity, everyone will go to Shucheng and Lujiang to see and walk around. Doing well is far more important than shouting loudly!

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