ntly; and gave the order for execution。
So father and son met their fate together in the winter of the twenty…fourth year (AD 219) in the tenth month。 Guan Yu was fifty…eight。
A poem says:
Peerless indeed was our Lord Guan Yu; of the latter days;
Head and shoulders stood he out among the best;
Godlike and terrible in war; elegant and refined in peace;
Resplendent as the noonday sun in the heavens;
Haloed as are the noblest of those early days;
He stands; the brightest model for all ages;
And not only for the strenuous days he lived in。
And another:
Seek ye a noble one? Then take ye the way of Jieliang;
Watch ye how all people revere Guan Yu;
Each excelling others to honor him;
Him; one of the three brothers of the Peach Garden Oath;
Who have won sacrifices; as emperor and king。
Inparable their aura spreads through the world;
They are resplendent as the great lights of the firmament;
Temples to our Lord Guan Yu abound; no village lacks one;
Their venerable trees at sundown are the resting places for birds。
So Guan Yu ended his life。 His famous steed; Red Hare; also captured with its master; was sent to Sun Quan; who gave it as a reward to his captor; Ma Zhong。 But Red Hare survived its master only a short time。 It refused to feed; and soon died。
Foreboding of misfortune came to Wang Fu within the city of Maicheng。 His bones felt cold; and his flesh crept。
He said to his colleague Zhou Cang; 〃I have had a terrible dream in which I saw our lord all dripping with gore。 I would question him; but I was overe with dread。 May it augur no evil tidings!〃
Just then the troops of Wu came up to the city wall and displayed th