Because Confucius was about 2.3 meters tall, he alarmed people around him and called him a "craftsman". In Water Margin, although Song Wu and Wu Dalang are brothers, Song Wu is an "eight-foot man" and Wu Dalang is a "warrior", so they have been treated differently since childhood.
The ancient people's pursuit of height can be said to be engraved in the bone marrow. Besides Confucius and Song Wu, the most typical figure is Guan Yu, a soldier. Guan Yu made numerous contributions in his life. What is most praised is that in the 24th year of Jian 'an (AD 2 19), at the beginning of Xiangyang War, he was drowned by Wei, Jin and Huaxia of the Seventh Army. But that was his victory in the art of war, not in martial arts.
What is even more exciting is that Guan Yu showed great force when facing the enemy in actual combat. In the first year of Chuping (190) and 18, the governors jointly surrendered Dong Zhuo, and most of the armed men sent by the governors were killed by Dong Zhuo's general Hua Xiong. Guan Yu, who was just an archer, volunteered when many princes could not do it.
Yuan Shu, mr.zhou and other governors flew into a rage. "You are a little archer. Do you think there is no captain under our princes? " This time, Cao Cao stopped Yuan Shu and Mr.zhou and let Guan Yu drink before the war. Guan Yu thanked Cao Cao for his kindness, but instead of getting a glass of wine from him, he said, "Let me cut off Hua Xiong and fill the cup of the Prime Minister." Go ahead. Yuan Shu and mr.zhou looked at guan yu and laughed together.
Guan Yu went out for some time and returned to England, holding Hua Xiong's head in one hand and drinking with Sasuke's hand in the other. The wine is still very hot at this time. Yuan Shu and Element were dumbfounded, not small. This story is also called "Guan Yu went to Wenzhou to visit China" by later generations. Guan Yu, who turned out to be just a small bow and horse beast, touched the world with super namelessness.
This is not Guan Yu's most dazzling record. He really became famous in the world and became the enemy of ten thousand people who were recognized as "a million generals are like hunting things". In the fifth year of Jian 'an (AD 200), Cao Cao led an army of 20,000 and Yuan Shao led an army of 1 10000, and launched a strategic decisive battle in Guandu. Guan Yu, as the commander-in-chief of Cao Cao, was stationed in Baima, but in front of Guan Yu's broadsword, Long Guanjun Anyang had no chance to react at all, and even had no time to effectively resist, so he was stabbed to death. Then, the literary talent of the "Dragon View Three Armies", who is equally famous with Anyang, reacted, but failed to stop three Guan Yu from being killed in the host's camp, which shows how strong Guan Yu's martial arts are.
The reason why Guan Yu's martial arts is so strong is obviously inseparable from his height advantage. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu is the captain of the "nine-foot man"
So, if Guan Yu's height is measured by length today, how tall is he actually? A Han Dynasty man unearthed from an ancient tomb in Luoyang gave the answer. This person from the Eastern Han Dynasty showed that the word "one character" at that time was equivalent to "23.4 cm" now, so Guan Yu's height was about 2 meters 1. With this huge figure and huge weapons, the era of cold weapons is basically the existence that can trample on everything on the battlefield.