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I've played a lot of Dynasty Warriors and RoTK and 3 Kingdoms, but never seen any cannibal

a good chunk of that timeline is fantasy so who the hell knows.

They cut a lot of stuff out in the games. For instance, the games never mention that Liu Chan got thrown on the ground by his father after being brought back in Zhao Yun's arms. The story goes that he cared more about his favorite general than his dumb baby. He was mad at his son for putting Zhao Yun at risk and supposedly took the infant and then slammed him on the ground

He also had another son that is never in the games, but that son disgraced his father so Liu Bei had him executed. Liu Bei was actually a pretty evil person by modern standards

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I've played a lot of Dynasty Warriors and RoTK and 3 Kingdoms, but never seen any cannibal

The games are based on the book which is mostly made up. It's like asking if any one specific part of 300 is real.

IIRC there are reports of it during the Tang dynasty and again during the more recent Guangxi Massacre
Funnily enough I've been reading 3K, I'm on chapter 71 atm

Xu zhu ate some people for sure

It probably happened at some point but it's a novel, it's sensationialized

I would imagine the CCP has destroyed as much embarrassing history as they could that wasn't already public record to the outside world.

M3sterybumper posted...

Couldn't they , you know, just take the townsfolk's food

they wanted meat : 3

Zikten posted...

They cut a lot of stuff out in the games. For instance, the games never mention that Liu Chan got thrown on the ground by his father after being brought back in Zhao Yun's arms. The story goes that he cared more about his favorite general than his dumb baby. He was mad at his son for putting Zhao Yun at risk and supposedly took the infant and then slammed him on the ground

He also had another son that is never in the games, but that son disgraced his father so Liu Bei had him executed. Liu Bei was actually a pretty evil person by modern standards

Liu Bei has several sons in later RTK games, but they generally don't come of age until after his death. None of them did much, but one of their sons was Liu Chen, who is given credit for killing himself in shame during/after? Shu's surrender.
The one you mean is Liu Feng, who was his older adoptive son and governor of Shang Yong. He rejected Guan Yu's plea for reinforcements when he was attacked by Wu at Fan Castle(Guan Yu was defeated and subsequently fled but was trapped by Lu Meng at Mai Castle, where he was forced to surrender), in part because he believed Guan Yu supported Liu Shan's claim to the throne and his death would help his claim (this may not be accurate: it may simply be an ex post facto justification for the maximum punishment). Liu Bei put him to death for failing to fulfill his duty (and subsequently losing Shang Yong), IIRC.
Though that wasn't uncommon: Zhuge Liang would later put Ma Su to death, after he disobeyed orders and took up position on a hilltop instead of in the road at Jie Ting, leading to a disastrous defeat and some miserable Shu levels in Dynasty Warriors.

But this topic reminds me of this old web comic:
http://web.archive.org/web/20160408072426/http://san.paulguo.com/?id=85

maybe they meant they ate people on ancient china...as opposed to say chinette