(Three Kingdoms 1994 fansubs) Gentlemen of the Hànさんのイラストまとめ

This is why one of the popular images of Guan Yu is "Guan Yu reading the Zuozhuan/Spring and Autumn Annals at Night", both as a reference to real-life history of him as a studious man, but also to emphasize further of Guan Yu being an intellectual general than just a fighter.

Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous time of Chinese history, and the capital city of Chang'an was one of the largest cities in history, many times the size of Rome and Constantinople

So large, you can fit an airplane onto the Zhuque-highway as seen below
https://t.co/PNr0GQFHGt https://t.co/vbndvzPdRO

From Mitsuteru Yokoyama to Koei to Total War, much of the current character designs of the Three Kingdoms are inescapably intertwined to the standards set by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms lianhuanhua published in 1957 to 1961 by Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing.

->According to Book of the Later Han (because Chinese history wrote down Everything):
"进贤冠，古缁布冠也，文儒者之服也。
"武冠，俗谓之大冠，环缨无蕤，以青系为绲，加双鶡尾，竖左右，为鶡冠云。"

Jinxian-Guan(进贤冠) is the bluprint predecessor for the iconic Liangguan-hat (pic 4).

Red and black were most utilized colours thus an iconic visual feature of the Han Dynasty, influenced by dynastic Wuxing Colour theory (https://t.co/MFFXuGJHua) and Han's heritage from Warring States' Chu culture, and the practical reason of lacquers being reddish-brown and black

@DrunkRembrancer Han Dynasty seems to still maintain the latter two of these hairstyles, based on visual depictions of the time.