胡适提出“箭垛式人物”概念用以指称中国历史上的传说人物。关羽就是一个有代表性的“箭垛式”人物,20世纪初学界对他的研究多呈现为文学与史学研究的两条路径。作为“箭垛式人物”的关羽形象乃是多民族文化共同建构的产物,源于不同族群间民众俗信与价值判断的交集,关涉到人类学的相关领域,而“箭垛式人物”概念提出本身也就预设和规约了人类学视域的必然介入。 Hu Shih proposed the concept of “rocket-shaped characters” to refer to legendary figures in Chinese history. Guan Yu is a representative “rocket-style” character. In the early 20th century, most of his researches in his field appeared as two paths for the study of literature and history. Guan Yu’s image as a “rocket-shaped character” is a product of the common construction of multi-ethnic cultures, originating from the intersection of popular folk beliefs and value judgments among different ethnic groups and related to the related fields of anthropology, and “ ”Concept proposed itself also presupposed and stipulated the necessary intervention of anthropological horizon.