In the official history, the real Zhou Yu is "brave and fearless" and "a genius who builds an arbitrary knowledge and shows everyone's appearance". In the History of the Three Kingdoms written by Chen Shou, Zhou Yu was rated as "a man with rich personality and high success rate, but he was at odds with Cheng Pu". Zhou Yu also has a good artistic accomplishment and literati temperament. Zhou Yu is not only resourceful and good at fighting, but also has a good temperament and a high appreciation of music. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in order to set off Zhuge Liang's extraordinary wisdom and talents, Luo Guanzhong made a lot of modifications and demeanings to Zhou Yu, a famous Soochow scholar, which turned such a well-dressed, open-minded and distinguished celebrity into a narrow-minded and jealous person.

Historically, Zhou Yu lived longer and became famous earlier than Zhuge Liang, and they actually had nothing to do with it, let alone Zhou Yu. In fact, it is very common that historical romance novels are different from history. However, it has been passed down through the ages like the Three Kingdoms, which is beneficial for everyone to open books, so that it completely replaces the official history and is regarded as a reliable historical record, thus changing the whole nation's understanding of that history.

Zhou Yu (175-210) was born in Lujiang Shu (now Lujiang Shu County, Hefei) and was a famous soldier in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Luo Yangli Zhou Yi's son, grandfather and uncle are all officials to Qiu. Strong, beautiful and elegant, Jiangdong has the saying "wrong song, care".

Zhou Yu and Sun Ce made fewer friends. Since 2 1 year-old, he went to the battlefield with Sun Ce to pacify Jiangdong. After the assassination of Sun Ce, Sun Quan succeeded to the throne. Zhou Yu sent soldiers to the funeral, and he and Zhang Zhao, who have a long history, were in charge of everything as China guards. In the 13th year of Jian 'an (208), Zhou Yu led an army to unite with Liu Bei and Battle of Red Cliffs defeated Cao Jun, which laid the foundation of "three points of the world". In the 14th year of Jian 'an (209), General Bai Qing led the Southern County Governor. In the fifteenth year of Jian 'an (2 10), he died in Baqiu at the age of 36.

In the official history, Zhou Yu is a "real genius". Sun Quan praised Zhou Yu as "the capital of Wang Zuo", and Fan Chengda praised Zhou Yu as "the hero of the world and the beautiful husband of Jiang Zuo". When Song Huizong chased him for Pinglu. Ranked among the sixty-four generals of Tang Wu Temple and one of the seventy-two generals of Wu Song Temple.