There is no general in Shu, Liao Hua is a pioneer(shǔ zhōng wú dàjiàng，liào huà zuò xiānfēng)

There is no general in Shu, Liao Hua is a pioneer

At the time of Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition, all the generals who were good at fighting in Shu had died and no one could use them. Liao Hua, who was nearly 80 years old, could only be the vanguard. The original meaning is that even a young general of Shu is gone, and a veteran like Liao Hua is going to be a pioneer. There are no outstanding new people in the team, but the old and experienced people should take on the heavy responsibility.

The phrase "there is no general in Shu, Liao Hua is a pioneer" comes from the 24th chapter of broomstick, not from the official history.

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The phrase "there is no general in Shu, Liao Hua is a pioneer" comes from the 24th chapter of sweeping broom, not from the official history records. The original text is as follows: suddenly, an old Confucian with unknown name, broad sleeves, and rotten face came out. The man stepped into the library and did not salute the master, so he sat on the East chair and said with a sneer, "OK, OK," there is no great general in Sichuan, Liao Hua is a pioneer. "You young man, you are a famous writer. It's very strange, very strange." As he spoke, he reached into the old and dirty cloth bag on his lapel and took out a Beijing snuff bottle. He leaned and smelled it, as if there were no one else. The original intention is that the great generals in Shu died one after another, and Liao Hua was the pioneer. Generally speaking, no matter the readers of the romance of the three kingdoms or the official history of the Three Kingdoms, most people think that the following people are: < UL > < li > former general Hou Guanyu of hanshouting (about 160-220) < / Li > < li > right general Hou zhangfei of Xixiang (168-221) < / Li > < li > left general Hou machao of qianduting (176-222) < / Li > < li > later general Huang Zhong, the Marquis of the JunGuan area (? Year-220); < / Li > < li > Zhao Yun, the Marquis of yongchangting, the general of Zhendong county (? Year-229); < / Li > < li > Wei Yan, the Marquis of Nanzheng County (? Year-234); < / Li > < / UL >

Year of birth and death

As for Liao Hua's official position and the year of his birth and death are as follows: < UL > < li > Liao Hua, the Marquis of Zhongxiang, the right cavalry general (? Year-264) < li > < / UL > according to the year of his death, Liao Hua lived 30 years longer than Wei Yan, who died the last time. According to common sense, Liao Hua should be more active in the late decades than the great general of Shu. According to official records, Liao Hua didn't officially appear until 219, and then followed Zhuge Liang and Jiang Weinan in the northern expedition. He didn't die until 264, the first year of Xianxi, the year after the death of Shu Han. According to Pei Songzhi's annotation of the 13th biography of Wang Ping in the annals of the Three Kingdoms and Shu annals, it is recorded in the annals of Huayang state: "the people of that time said," there is a Wang sentence before, and then there is Zhang Liao. " It means Wang Ping, Ju Fu, Zhang Yi and Liao Hua. Liao Hua was as famous as the following three generals in the later period of Shu Han Dynasty. < UL > < li > Zhenbei general an Han Marquis Wang Ping (? - 248); < / Li > < li > Zuo general Dangqu Marquis goufu (? - 249); < / Li > < li > Zuo Che Qi general led Jizhou governor Zhang Yi (? - 264); < / Li > < / UL > according to the official history, for example, Liao Hua had many promotion records, when Liu Bei met Liao Hua, Da Yue appointed Liao Hua as the prefect of Yidu, and finally took the post of Zhenjun general According to Zong Yu, Liao Hua became an important general in the later period of Shu Han Dynasty. There is a misunderstanding that "there is no great general in Shu, Liao Hua is a pioneer", which holds that in the later period of Shu, talents withered, and Liao Hua with mediocre ability was the pioneer. In fact, the whole sentence of the old Confucian in broomstick should be: "good, good," there is no great general in Shu, Liao Hua is a pioneer. "You young man, you are a famous writer, strange, strange." Even if the words are derogatory, it's just that the "general in Sichuan" is not here. Liao Hua, the old man who is in the vanguard, refers to Liao Hua's old age, but does not indicate that Liao Hua's ability is mediocre.

Chinese PinYin : shǔ zhōng wú dàjiàng，liào huà zuò xiānfēng