Hua Xiong's birth year is unknown, and his death year was 191 AD. This man served as a governor under Dong Zhuo's tent and was a brave and skilled warrior. However, during the joint crusade against Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian was not only the governor of Changsha, but was also a valiant warrior and became the first person to break Dong Zhuo's army, and Hua Xiong was killed in the battle. In the romance novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the plot was changed to being killed by Guan Yu.
Guan Yu Hua Xiong's name is also controversial. In the Year of the Three Kingdoms, his name was written as Hua Xiong, while in the year of Guang Yun, it was thought that it should be a surname Ye Xiong. There are also many echoes of this name. Zhao Yewen, recorded in the Tongzhi, supports this. Ziji Tongjian yinjian (资治通鉴音注)year also wrote "Ye Xiong, a surname". Now, Prof. Wu Jinhua has his own opinion. He thinks that it was because he was y influenced by the novels since the Yuan Dynasty that he renamed "Ye Xiong" as "Hua Xiong" after the Song Dynasty. Therefore, if we call him Hua Xiong now, it is wrong, it is a fictional name detached from the historical character.
Why is Hua Xiong known to future generations? He was just a military general under Dong Zhuo's tent. His martial arts skills were not great in that society, and he didn't show up much in the novels, but he was well known. That's because the story of "Warm Wine Hua Xiong" made Hua Xiong famous.
What is the character Hua Xiong?
What is Hua Xiong? He was a general in Dong Zhuo's army at the time of Hua Xiong in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. His date of birth is unknown and he died in 191 AD. In the official history, Hua Xiong was killed by Sun Jian. But in the historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by Luo Guanzhong, the story of Guan Yu's "killing Hua Xiong with warm wine" has long been popular, and Guan's bravery and courage in this battle has been praised by people all over the world.
But looking at the official history, we can't find the right answer to the word Hua Xiong. Some say the word Da, others say the word Sheng. These guesses may come from some wild history, or may be fabricated by later generations, just not known now. Although as early as the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hua Xiong was a famous general and one of Dong Zhuo's most trusted generals. But both in the recorded history and in Luo Guanzhong's novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Hua Xiong was just a run-of-the-mill character, and the character was not even introduced.
Some people believe that Hua Xiong came from a poor background, and before he could get his words, his family had all died. It is also possible that Hua Xiong's family were all poorly educated and lived in a chaotic world of uncertainty, so there were no cousins for Hua Xiong. However, the recent discussion about Hua Xiong's real name has sparked another debate.
In the year of the Three Kingdoms, Zhong was directly called "Hua Xiong," but in the year of the Guangyun, there was a man called "Du Wei Ye Xiong. According to a considerable amount of evidence, some people believe that "Du Wei Hua Xiong" is "Du Wei Ye Xiong", which is just a misrepresentation of later records. There is also the possibility that "Hua Xiong" was Hua Xiong's own name, and that his real name may have been "Ye Xiong", or another name that is unknown.
Who killed Hua Xiong?
Who killed Hua Xiong? In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," a historical adaptation written by Luo Guanzhong in the Ming Dynasty, Hua Xiong, a general under Dong Zhuo, was killed by Guan Yu, Liu Bei's second brother. However, in the historical sources such as "The Three Kingdoms" written by Chen Shou, Hua Xiong was killed by Sun Jian, the then Marquis of Wucheng. So who killed Hua Xiong?
In fact, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by Luo Guanzhong is just a novel based on history, which contains a lot of artistic processing. The story, including "Warm Wine and Hua Xiong", is to set off Mr. Guan's heroic battle and add some legendary color to his image. In fact, Hua Xiong's skill at that time should be said to be very high. He was a general of the same rank as Lu Bu, and he once told Dong Zhuo in front of everyone that "I can do what Lu Bu can do" and so on. This shows that his martial arts skills were also very high. In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the "Three Heroes fight Lv Bu" was only a draw, but Guan Yu was able to "kill Hua Xiong with warm wine", which is too big a fluctuation in the level of martial arts.
But after all, fiction is fiction. Who killed the hero of history? It was actually Sun Jian. At the time, Sun Jian joined with Cao Cao and Yuan Yu to crusade against Dong Zhuo, and was attacked by Xu Rong from Dong Zhuo's army. Sun Jian escaped by breaking through the siege with his close friends. On the way, Sun Jian collected some lost soldiers. Although Dong Zhuo then sent Hu Zhen, Lu Bu, and Hua Xiong after him, Sun Jian was barely able to fight while running.
But the commander-in-chief, Hu Zhen, had been at odds with Lu Bu, who even kept disrupting the army on the march, which allowed Sun Jian to find a chance to turn back and break up Dong Zhuo's juniors, turning from outlaw to pursuer, and catching up with Dong Zhuo's general Hua Xiong, who was decapitated by him on his way to catch up with the army.