The Secret of the Three Kingdoms is the latest TV series about the Three Kingdoms this year. As soon as it aired, it was sought after by many fans. What puzzles the audience, however, is that in The Secrets of Three Kingdoms, the hero seems to be Guo Jia, but they are actually the same person. We all know that the historical drama presented in the TV series is bound to be adapted, so it is understandable to play Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai as the same person, but what is recorded in Historical Records of Xi Zhicai is true.
For Guo Jia, Cao Cao called him Zuo Qi, and history books praised him as a wonder of the world. He is not only a strategist valued by Cao Cao, but also a wizard counselor who makes people feel frightened. In the original novel The Secrets of the Three Kingdoms, Guo Jia's name in Huamen is a dramatic genius.
Because we all know that people in the Three Kingdoms at that time liked to use single names, such as Cao Cao, Guan Yu, Yuan Shao or Liu Bei, and even Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang. They all use single names. At that time, it seemed that only people with particularly poor backgrounds would use double names. Then Guo Jia abandoned the name "Xi Zhicai" and became a famous Guo Jia in history.
In fact, in real history, Cao Cao did have a counselor named Xi Zhicai. Before he existed in Guo Jia, Cao Cao always attached great importance to him. It was also because of Guo Jia's untimely death that Yu Xun recommended Guo Jia to Cao Cao. There are not many descriptions of this talented dramatist in Historical Records, so some people boldly guess that this talented dramatist is Guo Jia. It is speculated that Guo Jia became a talented dramatist, on the one hand, because he felt sorry for the death of the talented dramatist, and on the other hand, because they had too many similarities, but the main reason was that Guo Jia, a counselor who was also in Cao Cao's body, was hyped by historians, while the talented dramatist was left out in the cold.