"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" should be regarded as the most successful novel of historical themes written in Chinese history, the novel gives the characters of the Three Kingdoms a more full and vivid artistic image, and the image of Zhuge Liang is loved by many people.
The author Luo Guanzhong also has a special love for the character of Zhuge Liang, in the novel Zhuge Liang calls the wind and rain, is proficient in Qimen Dunjia, and can even change his life against the sky, the author has shaped this Shu Han Xiang into a multi-wise and near-demon immortal type figure.
Zhuge Liang wrote a book called "Horse Lesson", in the ancient society that attached importance to tuyu, the official once listed his "Horse Lesson" as taboo and banned for many years, but it was still widely circulated in the folk, some people say that the 14 poems in this book are 14 prophecies, and the first 11 prophecies have been fulfilled.
Forbidden Book "Pre-Horse Lesson"
Chinese believed very much in all kinds of so-called prophecies or signs that could represent a future thing, which led to the development of Chinese tuzhiology, which refers to the signs of the image class, and the proverb refers to a certain kind of mysterious prophecy, which is propagated in the form of God's revelation, that is, God's revelation and hidden words foretelling good fortune and misfortune on earth.
Although this doctrine now seems absurd, it was particularly popular in ancient China, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, especially after the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu ascended to the throne, directly defined this absurd doctrine as an official doctrine, and the study of Tuzhi became popular and was valued by later generations of literati. Later novelists also liked to quote these illusory coincidences and mysterious prophecies when writing books.
Behind these prophecies there is a series of stories that people like, and Zhuge Liang's "Horse Lesson" is included in these ten prophecies, "Horse Lesson", also known as "Horse Front God Lesson", in fact, divination is carried out before the army conquest, and then the results of divination in front of the horse are recorded.
There are fourteen lessons, that is, fourteen poems, these 14 prophetic poems tell the fate of the 14 dynasties from the Three Kingdoms onwards, and now 11 have been realized, so can Zhuge Liang's Gua Xiang really predict history? What exactly are these 14 poems?
11 poems of realization
The content of the first song, which is the first lesson of the Gua Xiang, is "Powerless to return to heaven, bow to the end, yin dwells in the Yang Mansion, eight thousand female ghosts." Seeing the first 8 words, many people can understand that this prophecy is the history and fate of the Shu Han, even if Zhuge Liang bows down and dies, he will not be able to save the Shu Han who is about to collapse.
Yin Juyang Fu said that Shu Han will be killed by adulterers, "eight thousand female ghosts" together is exactly a "Wei" character, Shu Han was destroyed by the State of Wei is indeed fulfilled, it is worth mentioning that the Tuchen family especially like to write articles on Chinese characters, such as "eight thousand female ghosts" such as the ancient prophecy of the word is uncountable.
The content of the second song, that is, the second lesson of Gua Xiang, is "There is fire on the fire, the candle in the earth, the name is not right, there is a tiger in Jiangdong" The fire on the fire is a yan character, which is said to be Sima Yan, and this prophecy obviously predicts the development history of the Jin Dynasty.
The 3rd and 4th prophecies the Sui and Tang Dynasties, "Disturbing the Central Plains, the mountains and rivers have no master, the two or three are in their place, and the sheep will eventually begin." "Eighteen boys, starting from Taiyuan, moving is solved, the sun and the moon are beautiful" not only predicted the history of the development of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, predicted that the Li family that established the Sheng Tang Dynasty would rise from Taiyuan to seize the world, and even predicted the ascension of the heroine Wu Zetian to the throne.
The 5th predicts the history of the 5th generation and 10 countries, also predicts that the history of the 5 generations and 10 countries will end in the Song Dynasty, and even accurately predicts that this historical period will exist for 53 years, and also predicts that the people will live in pain and anxiety during this period, and the wars in the Central Plains will become more and more frequent.
The fate of the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty prophesied in the 6th and 7th songs predicted the fate of the Song Dynasty under the coercion of the Jin Dynasty, the 8th and 9th prophesied that Zhu Yuanzhang would establish the Ming Dynasty, and the 10th and 11th prophecies were that the Hu people of the Qing Dynasty would establish and die in Xuantong, and the Qing Dynasty would end with the end of the Year of the Rat, and China would become more and more powerful.
Judging from the current results, the prophecies of the first 11 songs have been fulfilled, so what are the remaining three songs?
The remaining three prophecies
Judging from the current results, Zhuge Liang's "Horse Lesson" has achieved lesson 11, and the other three have not yet found obvious instructions, but everyone can also find that most of this prophetic poem is some word-breaking game, and it is naturally not surprising that there are coincidences and rigid sets.
The remaining three poems of the 12th are "Saving from the afflictions and saving the suffering, being the only saint, the yang restoring and the healing, and the obscurity of the extreme." The 13th poem is "The virtuous do not leave the wilderness, the world is one, nameless and virtuous, and the glory of China." The 14th and final poem reads, "To occupy this lesson, the number is to count the past and the present, and its path is infinite." ”
What exactly are these three poems prophesiing? No one knows, perhaps history has not yet developed to this stage, or perhaps these predictions are just speculations made by posterity based on what happened in history, and the influence of "Pre-Horse Lessons" on China is huge, and it has been speculated and explored by many people who love this way.
In fact, in the final analysis, "Pre-Horse Lesson" is just the ancient people's insight into the development of the future, saying that it is a kind of prophecy, but it is a coincidence, no one predicts the direction of future historical development, the wheel of time rolls forward, everyone is a slim member of the big car of history, and everything we encounter now should be explained by science, not the so-called prophetic story.
Zhuge Liang was a great man in Chinese history, and he played a profound role in China's history, but even such a person could not save the crumbling Shu Han Dynasty.
brief summary:
Zhuge Liang's "Lesson before the Horse" is a magical prophecy for many people, a total of 14 gua, 14 prophetic poems, calculating the future national fortunes of China, there have been 11 fulfilled, many people are looking forward to the remaining three.
This is nothing more than a historical coincidence and the hope of the predecessors for the history of future generations, as young people in the new era, should believe in science, this kind of prophecy story, when the interesting events of history can be seen.