Many people say that Zhuge Liang's wisdom and magic in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are not like humans, but almost like a monster. This is because ordinary people don't understand why smart people are so powerful, so they use deification to help them understand. This situation also exists today. It is said in Chicken Soup that many people have only developed a few percent of the human brain, but you can be a genius no matter how much Einstein develops it. This kind of pseudo-scientific content is the way of mythical wise men today.
In order to let the public understand how powerful wise men are in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Complete Biography of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties", this method of deification is also used. The Shang, Zhou and Three Kingdoms are too far away from us, and many people cannot see the deification. The content can be understood by everyone who speaks closely. There is a book "Ping Jinchuan" in the late Qing Dynasty, which tells the story of Nian Gengyao and Yue Zhongqi's efforts to pacify Qinghai Luobuzangdanjin. The book not only mythologizes Nian Gengyao as the Heavenly Dog Star and descends to earth, but also includes Taoist priests fighting lamas, Taoist priests fighting Taoist priests, and masters of the three Western religions. There are also magical contents such as the Qing army inviting the Pope of Rome to fight the "Snow Mountain Ancestor".
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the pinnacle of ancient historical fiction such as "Ping Jinchuan", but it has not overcome the shackles of the need to use deified content to let the public know how powerful the wise men are. In other words, in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", ordinary people don't understand why Zhuge Liang is so powerful, but the upper class all say that Zhuge Liang is powerful, so they deify Zhuge Liang according to their own imagination. This is just like today's people and "metaphysics masters" do not understand physical terms such as quantum entanglement, but it does not prevent them from using these terms to deify and understand traditional culture.
Take off this layer of deification and use historical materials to see this historical star. Please wear goggles to protect your eyes, otherwise you will really be blinded!
Today, keyboard warriors from all walks of life like to question Zhuge Liang’s military value. Most of them think that he is not as powerful as in the novel and is not proficient in fighting. In the first year of Shangyuan of the Tang Dynasty, Jiang Taigong was honored as King Wucheng. The ceremony was the same as that of Confucius, the king of Wenxuan. At the same time, ten famous generals of the past dynasties were appointed as the main ones. Among them were Zhuge Liang, and alongside him were Zhang Liang, Sun Wu, Bai Qi, Le Yi, Li Jing et al.
Questioning Zhuge Liang's military capabilities is like questioning these famous generals and the people who selected famous generals at the time. When Zhuge Liang was in Shu, the state of war with Wei was on the offensive side. The comparison of the national strength of the two countries was that Shu had 280,000 households and Wei had 1.03 million households. In terms of population, the two were close to Four against one, we can continue to gain an advantage. Under this premise, you will be very impressed when you read the sentence in "Departure of the Army": "Crossing Lu in May, going deep into the barren area. Now the south has been settled, and the troops are sufficient." This is because Zhuge Liang had too few Han people to go to the barbarians. In order to obtain population, soldiers and wealth, the paradoxical situation emerged that just after the war was over, the number of soldiers increased.
Kong Ming’s political ability to turn enemies into friends is still demonstrated in Yunnan to this day. The Bai, Wa and other ethnic minorities still commemorate Zhuge Liang to this day, and because of the prime minister's meritorious deeds, they are willing to join the Chinese nation and remain Chinese forever.
If this is still not understandable, we might as well use today as the background to describe a parallel time and space, so that we can more intuitively understand Zhuge Liang's political and military capabilities. In a parallel time and space, Zhuge Liang was reincarnated in the Indochina Peninsula and soon became the leader of a certain country. Then he quickly unified Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand and other countries with enmity. Under his mediation, these countries were not only unified, but also quickly integrated into one body that remained unchanged for thousands of years. Then this country that did not exist in time and space attacked China under Zhuge Liang's reincarnation. Not only was China unable to destroy it, it also put the entire South China in a defensive state and did not dare to attack.
This kind of story that sounds impossible is a true portrayal of the threat that the Shu Han posed to the Wei State under the leadership of Zhuge Liang. Qidian's Long Aotian novels didn't dare to edit it like this, but Zhuge Liang could do it.
Zhuge Liang’s cultural talents are still dazzling. Zhuge Liang is playing the game of chess, calligraphy and painting. When he was in Longzhong, Zhuge Liang made a plan for the three points of the world in the future. This is like today's young people in their 10s and 20s saying what the global situation will be like in the future. As long as you listen to me, it will be like this, and he did it.
As for Qin, didn’t it mean that the music was wrong and Zhou Lang was concerned about it? However, Zhuge Liang also had very high musical attainments. It was later said that Zhuge Liang once wrote the "Qin Jing".
Zhuge Liang's calligraphy was cherished by the world after his death. "Xuanhe Shupu" said that "since the Han and Jin Dynasties returned...Shu got Zhuge Liang". Later generations of calligraphers Wang Xizhi also copied Zhuge Liang's " "Yuanshe Post", fortunately it remains to this day.
As for painting, Zhang Yanyuan of the Tang Dynasty said in "Records of Famous Paintings of the Past Dynasties": "Both Zhuge Wuhou and his son were good at painting." In "On Painting", Zhuge Liang was also among the famous calligraphers and painters during the Three Kingdoms period.
And this is only the least worthy of mentioning among Zhuge Liang's liberal arts levels. The most noteworthy thing about him is his own thinking. Even though flashy words can be resonant for a while and make people feel romantic, only words containing thoughts such as "Shi Shi Biao" and "Long Zhong Dui" can become classics that will be passed down through the ages. These eternal masterpieces are not written by Zhuge Liang specifically for literature. Written. "Departure" is the confession the prime minister gave to the Queen of Shu before leaving for war, and "Longzhong Dui" is the content of the conversation between Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei.
Zhuge Liang was so good at liberal arts, could he not be good at science?
It was true that he invented the Wooden Ox and the Flowing Horse and the Zhuge Liangnu, and they are both recorded in official history. However, his ability to invent and create is only part of Zhuge Liang's scientific level.
There is a paragraph in "Book of Jin Astronomical Chronicles" that begins with "Chen Zhuo, Fan Li, Mr. Guigu, Zhang Liang, Zhuge Liang, Qiao Zhou, Jingfang, Zhang Heng and Yun", which are all mentioned in ancient times. The Taoist master who was familiar with astronomy then talked about the division of the nine states in the twenty-eight constellations. In other words, in the eyes of the ancients, Zhuge Liang really knew astronomy from the top and geography from the bottom.
Many wise men in ancient times were not good-looking, but Zhuge Liang was both talented and beautiful, and he could make a living with his appearance. Such a nearly perfect person would naturally become one of the brightest stars in human history.
As a historical star, Zhuge Liang mainly conveys two values. First, "Anyone who cannot shed tears when reading his master's instructions must be disloyal." As for those who can say today that Zhuge Liang wanted to seek independence for the Han Dynasty, he should not be loyal. Kong Ming was loyal to the Han Dynasty throughout his life, and even more so to the Chinese civilization represented by the Han Dynasty. Therefore, in the historical evolution, Zhuge Liang also became a symbol of patriotism. For example, Lu You said in "Sickness from the Book", "I dare not forget to worry about my country despite my humble position." ", and the following is "One example of teaching can connect the present and the past, and it is more detailed when lighting up the lamp in the middle of the night." Because of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Liang has become a symbol of Chinese wisdom among the Chinese people, and he has become the representative of the highest wisdom of Confucianism and Taoism.
Now we can understand why some people have used fabricated accusations to slander Zhuge Liang in recent years. They slandered the old man's patriotism in order to destroy our patriotic beliefs; they framed Zhuge Liang's stupidity and incompetence in order to destroy the Chinese people's respect for the Chinese sages represented by Zhuge Liang, thereby destroying our love for traditional culture. This is the reason why Zhuge Liang is crazily slandered.