What is gauge theory?

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We shall clarify confusions in the understandings of gauge theories within the context of Quantum Field Theory and show that General Relativity is in fact a gauge theory with the metric being the fundamental gauge variable. Different gauge structures in gauge theories, in particular diffeomorphism, will also be discussed.