This is great.
He is a man with a height of 1.82 meters. Historical records show that he looks great and handsome. This man lived 1800 years ago, and left footprints in Shandong, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi and other places, and stories about him spread almost everywhere. In those stories, he was loyal, firm and clever without exception. It can be said that he is one of the most famous celebrities in China's 5,000-year history, and his name and deeds are also in Japan. More than a hundred years ago, when western missionaries came to China to preach, they even advocated that he was the eldest son of God and Jesus was his younger brother and the youngest son of God in order to make some ethnic minorities accept Christianity more quickly. This shows the man's influence in China.
1800 years, years have filled the sky with stars.
He, Zhuge Liang, is one of them.
At first, he was just a politician, and was compared by his contemporaries to the most famous prime ministers of the three generations, "Duke Zhou" and "Yi Yin". Later, he became an invincible general, a eloquent lobbyist, an alchemist who was familiar with strange things, and a Taoist priest who called the wind and rain, so that Mr. Lu Xun used the word "demon" to describe him rudely: from the deification and rendering of Zhuge Liang to the turn of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Luo Guanzhong wrote the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which integrated Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Dan and Yin and Yang. Stories such as "Borrowing the East Wind" and "Planning an Empty City" are well known to women and children. However, most of these things are due to his good imagination and fiction.
At least there should be a "Zhuge Liang", which is closer to the "truth". Although the truth may be hard to find, we should not give up our efforts in this direction. At least there are some things to be clarified. For example, he doesn't look old at all. He has had such a youthful time, and he has also had a juvenile romance with his knees burning and climbing drums. He is seven years younger than Zhou Yu and is often a "minority". When the latter reached the peak of his life, Zhuge Liang just stepped onto his own stage. For example, although he loves his wife very much, it is said that she is a yellow and black ugly woman, but she is not the only one who has married her all his life. Zhuge Liang, who had a high position and a hard time, married a concubine after he was 40 years old. In his letter to colleagues compiled by Zhuge Jiliang, he talked about it and said that he "has no extra clothes". "Truth" may not be as dramatic as "imagination", but "truth" is more touching. I think: this Zhuge Liang, who touched us 1000, 1000, does not lie in his "Oracle" possessed by gods; But because he is an ordinary person first, he can go higher step by step based on the position that he is never higher than any ordinary person. He told mortals how many things a mortal can do and how a mortal can carve his name into the sky and become a star.
There are two things related to Zhuge Liang, and I want to talk about them; It was those two things that made me have a special affection and love for this person early. First, it was recorded in Ji Shu. It is said that Qiao Zhou, the teacher Chen Shou, the author of the history of the Three Kingdoms, went to see Zhuge Liang. Qiao Zhou was born with a strange face, and everyone around Zhuge Liang laughed. After Qiao Zhou left, relevant officials pointed out that those who laughed should be investigated for responsibility and sentenced to disrespect; Zhuge Liang smiled and replied, "I can't help laughing, let alone others?" Gently wipe-he is a tolerant person, spontaneous and humorous. Secondly, it is recorded in the novel that Huan Wen was 100 years old when he met Zhuge Liang's beadle in his expedition to Shu. Huan Wen asked, "Who can compare with Zhu Gekongming today?" The beadle shook his head and said, "Zhuge Gong didn't think he was particularly outstanding when he was alive; But after his death, I haven't seen anyone who can match him. " He is ordinary, just as the historian Mr. Fan Wenlan said: He (Zhuge Liang) did everything beneficial to the people in feudal society. Although he ruled Shu, it was the most orderly country among the three countries. Ordinary is difficult, it is difficult to keep that ordinary and firm for decades.
Proud, tenacious, calm, brave, tolerant and strong are the characters of Zhuge Liang that I want to present to readers, and they are the powerful forces that support him to grow from a wandering teenager whose parents died to a national prime minister with a black scarf, and these strengths and characters are by no means achieved overnight; That needs to be explored, cultivated and honed, so I not only want to write about these "wealth", but more importantly, I want to describe the generation and origin of these "wealth". This is not only Zhuge Liang's glory and achievements, but more importantly, his joy, pain, sadness and helplessness as an ordinary man, and how he endured and surpassed every head-on blow.
The death occurred in Wuzhangyuan.
From the age of 27, he assisted Liu Bei and served two generations of kings until he died in Wuzhangyuan at the age of 54. I spent 200,000 words telling about his life after China's entry into WTO, because The Romance of the Three Kingdoms can also be regarded as a biography of Zhuge Liang to a great extent, and I was very careful in selecting materials. If I talk too much about romance, I will talk less; There is little or no love talk, but it is very important and even indispensable to the real Zhuge Liang, so I will tell more and more details to ensure that readers know as much as possible about that person and the people around him: friends and enemies. Most of the stories I quoted come from the History of the Three Kingdoms (mainly Shu Shu) annotated by Chen Shou and Pei Songzhi, as a mirror compiled by Sima Guang, and Zhuge Jiliang compiled by Zhang Shu in Qing Dynasty (which should be the book with the most information about Zhuge Liang at present). Some stories, such as "Five Zhang Yuan Flying Stars Falling", look like gods.
At the beginning of the 4th century, about 70 years after Zhuge Liang's death, Li Xing of the Western Jin Dynasty ordered Tian Zi to write an article to commemorate his former residence. He wrote: "English is my son, and it alone contains the soul of heaven." Is it the essence of God or the essence of man? He Sizhi, He Dezhi Qing. Different dreams, different hate life! " ("How brave you are! Only you embraced the spirit of heaven and earth. Are you a god? Are you an outstanding person? How profound your thoughts are and how clear your virtue is! Generations are different, only dreams are connected with souls. I only hate not being born with you for a while! " ) These words seem to come from my heart.
Yes, English is my son, and it has a unique spirit.
This article is dedicated to Yang Du who gave birth to him, Xiangfan who raised him, Chengdu, which he loves deeply, and Chang 'an, which he will never reach.