Author of the Three Kingdoms of Gong Gai 30, Author of the Three Kingdoms of Gong Gai

Eight Array Diagram Du Fu.

Famous into eight array diagrams.

The river does not turn, and the hatred is lost.

Notes] Three Kingdoms: refers to the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu.

Eight Formations: A figure composed of eight formations, which is used to drill armies or fight.

Shi Bu** refers to the fact that when the water rises, the stones of the Eight Array Diagram are still not moving.

Lost swallowing Wu: It means swallowing Wu and losing his strategy.

Brief Analysis] Nostalgic poetry is a dialogue between man and history. After Du Fu entered Shu, he had a soft spot for Zhuge Liang's talent for helping the world, which was a nostalgic poem he made on Zhuge Liang's ruins shortly after he arrived in Kuizhou (now Fengjie County, Chongqing City). "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Zhuge Liang" said that the master "deduced the art of war and made eight formations", but there are different opinions on where its ruins are.

The eight arrays on the beach of the Yangtze River in the south of Yong'an Palace in Fengjie County are particularly famous because of this Du poem. The poem praises Zhuge Liang's world-class exploits in the struggle between Wei, Shu and Wu to establish the foundation of the Shu State. Correspondingly, the eight formations he laid on the beach of the Yangtze River made his reputation even more outstanding.

The Eight Formations are a battle formation composed of eight formations: heaven, earth, wind, clouds, dragons, tigers, birds, and snakes. In the summer, the flood washed away, and these stone piles also stood still, so there is a sentence of "the river flows and the stones do not turn", which also symbolizes Zhuge Liang's loyalty and fame through the ages.

However, leaving the Eight Arrays here as a rescue measure for Liu Bei's defeat and return to Wu is really not in line with Zhuge Liang's strategic thinking of uniting Wu to resist Wei, so it is not only a historical witness of Zhuge becoming famous, but also a historical legacy of failing to complete the great cause of reunification. The sentence "hatred and loss swallowing Wu" has a difference in interpretation due to the polysemy of Chinese characters. "Dongpo Zhilin" records that Su Shi once dreamed that Du Fu said to him:

Many people in the world misunderstand my poem "Eight Arrays", thinking that the ancestor (Liu Bei) and Wuhou (Zhuge Liang) want to take revenge on Guan Gong, so they can't destroy Wu, no. I mean that it is the country of Wu Shu's lips and teeth, not a picture. Jin Zhi can take Shu, and Shu has the ambition to swallow Wu.

Take this as a hate. Du Fu used the eight arrays to think about Zhuge Liang's fame and resentment, and Su Shi used dreams to interpret the mystery in Du Fu's thinking, and they are all ** a "flawed glory" in history.

Du Fu (AD 712--770), Han nationality, the word Zimei, Henan Gongxian (now Zhengzhou Gongyi) people, known as Du Gongbu, Du Shiyi, self-named Shaoling Ye Lao, is a great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty in China, a poet, a world cultural celebrity, and Li Bai is called "Li Du". Du Fu's ancestral home is Xiangyang (now Xiangfan City, Hubei), his distant ancestor is the famous Du Pre of the Jin Dynasty, and his ancestor is the poet Du Xianyan of the early Tang Dynasty, and Du Fu himself was born in Gongxian County, Henan Province (now Gongyi, Zhengzhou). Du Fu once served as a member of the Zuo Shizhi and the Inspection and School Engineering Department, so later generations called him Du Shizhi and Du Gong.

Du Fu lived in the historical period of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and his poems mostly involve social turmoil, political darkness, and people's suffering, and are known as the "history of poetry". Du Fu worries about the country and the people, has a noble personality and exquisite poetry, and is respected as a "poet saint" by later generations. Du Fu wrote more than 1,400 poems in his lifetime, many of which were famous through the ages.

The power covers three countries, and the name becomes an eight-array map. The river does not turn, and the hatred is lost. This is Du Fu's poem evaluating Zhuge Liang.

The power covers three countries, and the name becomes an eight-array map.

From Du Fu's "Eight Arrays" in the Tang Dynasty

The power covers three countries, and the name becomes an eight-array map. (Famous into a work: famous high) the river does not turn, and the hatred is lost.

Translation: The Three Kingdoms have established world-class achievements, and you have achieved permanent fame by creating eight arrays.

Regardless of the impact of the river, the stone is still the same, and the resentment of the millennium lies in Liu Bei's misstep and wanting to swallow Wu.

Annotation Eight Formations: A figure consisting of eight formations, used to drill armies or fight.

Cover: Exceeded. Three Kingdoms: refers to the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu.

Shi Bu** refers to the fact that when the water rises, the stones of the Eight Array Diagram are still not moving.

Lost swallowing Wu: It means swallowing Wu and losing his strategy.

Hope it helps.

The next sentence of "Gong Gai Sanguo" is "Famous into Eight Formations".

This is a famous sentence in the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's [Eight Arrays] in memory of Zhuge Liang!

Bagua Diagram] Gong covers three countries, and the name becomes an eight-array map.

The river does not turn, and the hatred is lost.

The gong cover is divided into three kingdoms, and the name is eight arrays.

Famous into eight array diagrams.

The river flow stone does not turn.

Send hatred and swallow Wu.

When comprehending poetry, it is necessary to think outside of conventional grammatical conventions.

The "Three Divisions" is a temporary collocation in order to compete with the "Eight Formations". It actually means "Three Kingdoms", and the Han Dynasty is divided into three, which refers to the historical stage. Then, "merit covers three countries" is equivalent to saying "merit covers the three kingdoms (heroes)", and its merit is better than anyone else during the period of the establishment of the Three Kingdoms.

Cover: Exceeded.

"The merit covers three parts of the country, and the name becomes the eight arrays", these two sentences praise Zhuge Liang's great achievements. The first sentence is written from the general aspect, saying that Zhuge Liang has made the most outstanding achievements in the process of establishing the situation of Wei, Shu and Wu being divided into three parts of the world and standing on their own. There are many factors in the formation of the coexistence of the Three Kingdoms, and Zhuge Liang assisted Liu Bei to create the foundation of Shu from scratch, which should be said to be one of the important reasons.

The power covers three countries, and the name becomes an eight-array map.

The river does not turn, and the hatred is lost.