The next sentence of "devoting one's best to one's best" is to die.
To devote oneself to death means to work diligently and exhaust one's efforts until one's death. It is often used to describe a person's greatness. It comes from Zhuge Liang's "The Later Master's Example". Bow: bend down; 瘘: tired. To exhaust one's efforts means to devote all one's energy.
The Three Kingdoms Shu Zhuge Liang's "The Later Disciple": I bow and do my best, and then die. Chapter 120 of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Luo Guanzhong of the Ming Dynasty: Now that I have regained control of the entire army, I will go out to Qishan again, vowing to do my best to destroy the Han traitors and restore the Central Plains. I will devote myself to death and die. Huang Zongxi of the Ming Dynasty wrote "The Inscription on the Shinto of Feng Gong, the Censor of Youqiandu, Tianjin, Liuxian": My brother, the Emperor He, knew that he had met him, and he devoted himself to death, and did not dare to talk about his illness.
During the Three Kingdoms period, after the death of Liu Bei, the leader of Shu, Liu Chan succeeded to the throne and handed over the domestic military and political power to Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang joined forces with Wu to conquer Wei, and conquered Menghuo in the south. He also actively prepared for the two Northern Expeditions. On the eve of the last Northern Expedition, he wrote "Execution of the Later Disciple" to Liu Chan to express his devotion to the country until his death.
Character profile
Zhuge Liang (181 to October 8, 234), courtesy name Kongming, nicknamed Wolong (also known as Fulong), Han nationality, Yangdu, Langya, Xuzhou (now Shandong) A native of Yinan County, Linyi City, he was the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, an outstanding politician, strategist, essayist, calligrapher, and inventor. He was named Marquis of Wuxiang when he was alive, and after his death he was named Marquis of Zhongwu. The Eastern Jin Dynasty regime named him King of Wuxing because of his military talents. His representative prose works include "Chu Shi Biao" and "Book of Commandments to Sons".
He invented the wooden ox and flowing horse, the Kongming lantern, etc., and modified the continuous crossbow, called the Zhuge Liannu, which can fire ten arrows with one crossbow. He died in Wuzhangyuan (now Qishan, Baoji) in the twelfth year of Jianxing (234). Liu Chan gave him the posthumous title of Zhongwuhou, so later generations often addressed Zhuge Liang as Wuhou and Zhuge Wuhou. Zhuge Liang "dedicated his life to death" and was a representative figure of loyal ministers and wise men in traditional Chinese culture.