Zhuge Liang - The Southern Expedition

Zhuge Liang (181 - 234) was one of the greatest strategists of post-Han China, as well as a statesman, engineer, scholar, and legendary inventor of baozi. Zhuge is an uncommon two-character compound family name. Zhuge Liang - Various names in different forms. Zhuge Liang - Family name and given name. Traditional Chinese characters: 諸葛亮 Simplified Chinese characters: :诸葛亮 Pinyin: Zhūge Liàng Wade-Giles:Chuko Liang ...

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• Zhuge Liang - Various names in different forms
• Zhuge Liang - Family name and given name
• Zhuge Liang - Courtesy name
• Zhuge Liang - Other names
• Zhuge Liang - Early life
• Zhuge Liang - Rise to prominence
• Zhuge Liang - The Southern Expedition
• Zhuge Liang - The Northern Expeditions
• Zhuge Liang - Legacy
• Zhuge Liang - Zhuge Liang's Wife Huang Yueying

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Zhuge Liang felt that in order to march North he would first have to unify Shu completely. If he fought against the North while the Nanman people rebelled, then the Nanman people would march further and perhaps even press into areas surrounding the capital. So rather than embarking on a Northern Campaign, Zhuge Liang led an army to pacify the south first. Ma Su (Ma Liang's brother) proposed the plan that Zhuge Liang should work toward getting the rebels to join him rather than killing all of them and he took this plan. Zhuge Liang defeated the rebel leader, Meng Huo, seven different times, but released hi ...

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The warlord Liu Bei harbored in the neighboring city Xiangyang under his distant relative and the governor of the Jing Region, Liu Biao. Legends recounted that Zhuge Liang joined Liu Bei in 207 only after Liu visited him in person three times. In reality, one of Zhuge Liang's works accounted for three visits. Zhuge Liang soon presented his famous Longzhong Plan before Liu, and he travelled in person to the Kingdom of Wu and formed an alliance with its ruler Sun Quan. His elder brother Zhuge Jin ...

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Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang - Various names in different forms, Zhuge Liang - Family name and given name, Zhuge Liang - Courtesy name, Zhuge Liang - Other names, Zhuge Liang - Early life, Zhuge Liang - Rise to prominence, Zhuge Liang - The Southern Expedition, Zhuge Liang - The Northern Expeditions, Zhuge Liang - Legacy, Zhuge Liang - Zhuge Liang's Wife Huang Yueying

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Zhuge Liang was born in Yangdu County in Langya Commandery, at present-day Yishui County, Shandong Province. He was the second of three brothers and orphaned early; his mother died when he was nine, and his father when he was twelve. His uncle raised him and his siblings. When Cao Cao invaded Shandong in 195, his family was forced to flee south, and his uncle soon died of illness. Although both his sisters married into important families with numerous connections in the area, for ten years he resided in Longzhong Commandry (in present ...

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Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang - Various names in different forms, Zhuge Liang - Family name and given name, Zhuge Liang - Courtesy name, Zhuge Liang - Other names, Zhuge Liang - Early life, Zhuge Liang - Rise to prominence, Zhuge Liang - The Southern Expedition, Zhuge Liang - The Northern Expeditions, Zhuge Liang - Legacy, Zhuge Liang - Zhuge Liang's Wife Huang Yueying

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Zhuge Liang married Huang Yueying (黄月英), daughter of the scholar Huang Chenyan, in 197 (when he was seventeen years old and she twelve). According to legend, Miss Huang was considered a plain and self-effacing girl, but also very intelligent and wise. Zhuge Liang was the only one able to see through her ruse and come to woo her for her wisdom. Remarkably enough, it appears that Zhuge had no other wives or concubines even when he became prime minister of Shu Han, even though powerful men of the time were generally polygamists. Together, Zhuge and his wife had a son, Zhuge Zhan (諸葛瞻), who s ...

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Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang - Various names in different forms, Zhuge Liang - Family name and given name, Zhuge Liang - Courtesy name, Zhuge Liang - Other names, Zhuge Liang - Early life, Zhuge Liang - Rise to prominence, Zhuge Liang - The Southern Expedition, Zhuge Liang - The Northern Expeditions, Zhuge Liang - Legacy, Zhuge Liang - Zhuge Liang's Wife Huang Yueying

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Zhuge Liang persuaded Jiang Wei, a general of Kingdom of Wei, to defect to the Kingdom of Shu during his first Northern Expedition. Jiang would become one of the prominent Shu generals, and inheritor of Zhuge Liang's battle strategies. Jiang Wei continued to carry on Zhuge Liang's ideals and fight for the Kingdom of Shu after Zhuge Liang's death in 234. In Zhuge Liang's latter years, he launched expeditions against the Wei five times, but all except one failed, usually because his food supplies ran out, rather than failure on the batt ...

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Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang - Various names in different forms, Zhuge Liang - Family name and given name, Zhuge Liang - Courtesy name, Zhuge Liang - Other names, Zhuge Liang - Early life, Zhuge Liang - Rise to prominence, Zhuge Liang - The Southern Expedition, Zhuge Liang - The Northern Expeditions, Zhuge Liang - Legacy, Zhuge Liang - Zhuge Liang's Wife Huang Yueying

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Zhuge Liang - Family name and given name. Traditional Chinese characters: 諸葛亮 Simplified Chinese characters: :诸葛亮 Pinyin: Zhūge Liàng Wade-Giles:Chuko Liang Zhuge Liang - Courtesy name. Chinese characters: 孔明 Pinyin: Kǒngmíng Wade-Giles: K`ung-ming Zhuge Liang - Other names. Crouching Dragon Xiansheng 臥龍先生 The Crouching or Sl ...

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Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang - Various names in different forms, Zhuge Liang - Family name and given name, Zhuge Liang - Courtesy name, Zhuge Liang - Other names, Zhuge Liang - Early life, Zhuge Liang - Rise to prominence, Zhuge Liang - The Southern Expedition, Zhuge Liang - The Northern Expeditions, Zhuge Liang - Legacy, Zhuge Liang - Zhuge Liang's Wife Huang Yueying

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His name is synonymous with wisdom in Chinese. He was believed to be the inventor of the landmine and a mysterious automatic transportation device (initially used for grain described as a "wooden ox and floating horse" (木牛流馬), which is sometimes identified with the wheelbarrow. Although he is often credited with the invention of the repeater crossbow which is named after him, called Zhuge Nu, this type of semi-automatic crossbow actually first appeared during the Warring States Period, some three centuries before Zhuge's time. An early type of hot air balloon used for military signalling is also named after h ...

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Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang - Various names in different forms, Zhuge Liang - Family name and given name, Zhuge Liang - Courtesy name, Zhuge Liang - Other names, Zhuge Liang - Early life, Zhuge Liang - Rise to prominence, Zhuge Liang - The Southern Expedition, Zhuge Liang - The Northern Expeditions, Zhuge Liang - Legacy, Zhuge Liang - Zhuge Liang's Wife Huang Yueying

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