Is “He was narrow-minded and was killed by Zhuge Liang's three provocations.” true?
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According to Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wu, Biography of Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu was 'generous in temperament and broad in mind, and generally won people's hearts.' He died of illness while on an expedition to Baqiu, not from anger.
Zhou Yu
In official history, he was a magnanimous and accomplished hero of the Jiangdong region, but in the novel, he is reduced to a narrow-minded figure who dies from frustration, lamenting, 'Since Yu was born, why also Liang?'
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