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Zhuge Liang (181-23410-8) was born in Yang Du (now yinan county, Linyi City, Shandong Province). He was the prime minister of Shu and Han in the Three Kingdoms period and an outstanding politician, strategist, inventor and writer in ancient China.
The representative works of Zhuge Liang's prose include A Model and A Book of Commandments. He once invented the wooden ox, the flying horse, the Kongming lantern and so on, and transformed the crossbow, called Zhuge Lian crossbow, which can hit all targets with one crossbow. Zhuge Liang, a representative of loyal ministers and wise men in China traditional culture, devoted himself to his life and died.
Zhuge Liang lived in an era when China's calligraphy art was maturing. Zhuge Liang loved calligraphy and trained hard when he was young. He can write all kinds of fonts and is good at seal script, eight-part essay and cursive script.
In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yanyuan wrote in the Book of Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties: "Zhuge Wuhou and his son are both good at painting." Zhang Yanyuan also recorded the collection and sale of paintings at that time in his book On Painting.
He said: "Today is divided into three ancient times to determine the nobility and inferiority, and the Han and Wei dynasties are ancient, so Cai Yong, Zhang Heng, Cao Mao, Huan Fan, Xu Miao, Cao Buxing and Zhuge Liang are also."
According to the records of ancient and modern swords, in the first year of Zhangwu, Liu Bei collected iron ore in Jinniu Mountain and cast eight swords, one for Liu Bei to wear, and the other seven were given to Liu Chan, Liu Yong, Liu Li, Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun. The name of each sword is very nice, and Zhuge Liang wrote an inscription on it.
After the death of Shu Han, the whereabouts of the eight swords of Shu Lord were unknown. Later, Zhuge Liang Pei Jian Zhang was acquired by Li Gugu, who took it for himself and changed it to a famous teacher Gu Jian.
Zhuge Liang won the hearts of the people in Sichuan, and residents in many parts of Sichuan still wore white cloth until modern times. It is said that this is Zhuge Liang Dai Xiao, which lasted for more than 1000 years.
Gao Cheng's Jiyuan Incident records that Zhuge Liang was unable to cross the river when recruiting troops in the south. Meng Huo said it was an evil spirit. As long as the head and livestock were sacrificed, it would be calm. However, Zhuge Liang thought it was too cruel to use people's heads, so he rubbed them with flour and mixed them with beef, sheep and other meat instead, and named them steamed bread.