大意失荆州 came about because of this man, Guan Yu. His negligence brought forth the fall of Jingzhou.
大意失荆州 (dà yì shī Jīng Zhōu) translates “carelessness loses Jingzhou”.
This story takes placed during the reign of Sun Quan 孙权 (182–252 ), king and founder of the Eastern Wu kingdom during the Three Kingdoms Period 三国时代 of Chinese history. The Kingdom of Shu was under the protection of General Guan Yu关羽.
One day, Zhugue Jin 诸葛瑾, a military attache in the Kingdom of Wu arrived at Jingzhou as an emissary of Sun Quan to deliver a marriage proposal to Guan Yu’s daughter on the behalf of Sun Quan’s son. Guan Yu’s rejected the offer in most ungracious and undiplomatic terms, in fact he was very insulting! “I’ll never let my daughter marry that dog!”
Zhuge Jin returned with a report of the ugly incident and this infuriated Sun Quan. In his fury, he decided to capture Jingzhou to retaliate against this insult.
One of his generals, Lu Meng, 吕蒙, offered him a strategic plan: “Of all your generals, Guan Yu would be the most worried about me, so I will pretend to be ill and resign from my position.
“Guan Yu won’t be so cautious and will let his guard down. Then when the time is right, we can strike at him when he is not expecting an attack and Jingzhou will be ours.”
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