More than ten years ago, the precious "Zhou Family Genealogy" of Zhou Yu of the Three Kingdoms was discovered in many places across the country, and four copies were discovered in Shucheng County, Anhui.

Among them, the "Zhou Family Genealogy" compiled in the 30th year of Guangxu (1904) was discovered in Chen Dazhuang, Bali Village, Tangshu Township, Shucheng County, a set of 20 volumes, describing Zhou Yu's life in detail. Migration map of descendants who moved from Shucheng to Hukou, Jiangxi, and then back to Shucheng. Combined with the "Zhou Family Genealogy" previously discovered in other parts of the country, it can be said that Zhou Yu's descendants are located in many places across the country.

The Zhou Yu Cultural Research Society went to many places specifically to find the roots of Zhou Yu. In addition to Shucheng and Susong in Anhui, it also went to Hubei, Zhejiang, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and other places, basically covering the whole country. Regarding all the relics of Zhou Yu, we consulted a large amount of information and ancient books, and conducted detailed research on Zhou Yu's chronology, family, etc., and came to the conclusion:

Zhou Yu is the pride of Anhui people, and Shucheng is the "Zhou Yu's Hometown" certified by the National Trademark Office.

There are many relics of Zhou Yu across the country, including: "Zhou Yu Historical Relics Exhibition Hall" and "Zhou Yu Pointing General Platform" in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, "Chibi, the Ancient Battlefield of the Three Kingdoms" in Hubei, and "Zhou Yu's Tomb" in Lujiang, etc. In Shucheng County alone, there are more than 20 relics such as Zhou Yucheng, Liansandun, Zhougongdu, Diaoyutai and Jiuliandun.

According to reports, Shucheng County is currently also working hard to build Zhou Yu culture and systematically protect and restore more than 20 Zhou Yu relics.

According to Zhou Yu's descendants, they believe that Luo Guanzhong, the author of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", was jealous and pranked their ancestor Zhou Yu.

Nanjing native Zhou Baiquan is the 63rd generation grandson of Zhou Yu, the famous general of the Three Kingdoms. He has been studying the genealogy left by his ancestors and wants to check whether his Nanjing Zhou family is a descendant of Zhou Yu, the famous general of the Three Kingdoms. Zhou Baiquan finally discovered in Ji'an, Jiangxi, a set of four remaining volumes of the "Genealogy of the Zhou Family in Wudong, Luyi" compiled for the fifth time by the direct descendants of the famous Three Kingdoms general Zhou Yu in the 30th year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty.

This genealogy not only proves that the Nanjing Zhou family where Zhou Baiquan lives is indeed the direct descendant of Zhou Yu, but also reveals the reason why Zhou Yu was vilified in Luo Guanzhong's "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Luo Guanzhong was jealous of Zhou Yu's descendants, so he pranked him." "

Zhou Yu's descendants said that the "straw boat borrowing arrows" in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was actually Zhou Yu's clever plan.

Zhou Baiquan showed reporters the "Xishan Zhou Family's Datong Zhoupu" collected at home. According to the Zhoupu records, Zhou Yu in history should be a "brilliant figure who was born early and kept civil and military strategies." Wizard. He is 6 years older than Zhuge Liang. It was Zhou Yu who came up with the Battle of Chibi and the idea of ??borrowing arrows from straw boats.

Historical records show that Zhou Yu was open-minded and generous, and he was a general with broad-mindedness, strategizing and extraordinary magnanimity. Moreover, Zhou Yu’s reputation has always been praised throughout history. The most famous one should be Su Shi's "Niannujiao·Chibi Nostalgia", in which "I think back to Gong Jin's time, Xiao Qiao was married for the first time, with majestic hair, feather fan and silk scarf, and the oars and oars were turned into ashes while talking and laughing..." This shows Su Shi's heroic attitude towards Zhou Yu. Deeply admired and strategized.

But why did such a graceful general of Soochow become a narrow-minded, jealous of the wise and capable in Luo Guanzhong's "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and was killed by Zhuge Liang?

It turns out that Luo Guanzhong "pranked" Zhou Yu because he was jealous of his descendants.

Zhou Baiquan told reporters that Luo Guanzhong portrayed Zhou Yu as a "small-bellied chicken, narrow-minded, jealous of the wise and jealous of the capable", which can definitely be regarded as an eternal injustice. "The above materials also prove this. Moreover, according to the newly discovered Wudong genealogy records, Zhou Yu was hit by a poisonous arrow while fighting Cao Cao's general Cao Ren's army in Nanjun (near Hefei, Anhui). He was seriously injured a year later. And his death has nothing to do with Zhuge Liang. There is a reason why Luo Guanzhong wrote this."

We found the answer from this genealogy. It turns out that Zhou Yu had two sons, and the eldest son Zhou Xun was quite famous. Zhou Yu's style, but Zhou Xun died very early. Zhou Yu's second son, Zhou Yin, was sent to Luling County (now Wudong, Ji'an, Jiangxi) because his words offended Sun Quan.

When Zhou Yin arrived in Luling County, he was once in despair, and was adopted as his son-in-law by a local old man named Luo (the ancestor of Luo Guanzhong). After the two families became in-laws, they were passed down from generation to generation until the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. The Zhou family was the generation of Zhou Xu and the Luo family was the generation of Luo Guanzhong.

"Luo Guanzhong failed every imperial examination, but Zhou Xu, a descendant of Zhou Yu, won the gold medal and passed the Jinshi. Luo Guanzhong was very unconvinced.

Later, Luo Guanzhong followed his father to the Taiyuan area of ??Shanxi Province to engage in salt business. He often went to teahouses and listened to Three Kingdoms operas. At that time, the operas of the Three Kingdoms were all based on the surname Liu, and later generations transferred the credit for Zhou Yu's achievements to Zhuge Liang. Luo Guanzhong heard it and found it interesting, so he adapted the Three Kingdoms operas he usually heard and wrote "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

However, Luo Guanzhong not only failed to vindicate Zhou Yu, the ancestor of the Zhou family who was related to him, but also made exaggerated creations to spoof Zhou Yu in order to disparage Zhou Xu, a Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty who took the imperial examination at the same time as himself.