"Confucius of Shantung wrote the Spring and Autumn Annals; Kuan Kung of Shansi read them," the proverb goes. Who would have guessed that the student would surpass the teacher? Although Confucius has his temples and receives his offerings, he's still just a sage; while Kuan Kung, the heroic general from the Three Kingdome Period, has been deified into the most widely worshipped god in China.
俗話說，「山東孔夫子作春秋、山西關夫子讀春秋」；不想青出於藍：當年「作」春秋的孔老師雖入主文廟、配享三牲，仍只是個凡間聖人；而「讀」春秋的關老爺，卻坐鎮武廟，升為天界尊神，成為中國人祭祀最廣的神祇。