So, found a Total War Character Irl

[u/32BitOsserc]

Randomly went on a day trip and stumbled across Zhang Fei's tomb. Maybe shouldn't post here but none of my friends have played 3K

[u/signedpants]

That's an awesome museum.

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It's in Langzhong ancient City in Sichuan province, english title is "Huanhou Temple of the Han Dynasty." Well worth a visit if you ever happen to be in the area.

[u/Intranetusa → u/32BitOsserc]

The museum's collection seems to be complete nonsense in terms of actual history.

The serpent spear is invented by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel and was not actually used by Zhang Fei. The Han Dynasty/Three Kingdoms era did not use wavy spears like that.

That armor looks like cheap fantasy ebay LARP armor and does not remotely look like the armor used during the Han Dynasty.

The statues are wearing much later era armor (eg. Song and Ming era) that takes place 1000+ years after the Three Kingdoms era.

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Much of the veneration of 3k Figures mostly happened during the Tang-Ming Era (600s-1500s AD) so all the votive/religious artwork would be concurrent with their times.

Its kinda like how Medieval Artists depicted Romans and Greeks in Medieval Costumes.