Today's Three Kingdoms idiom story is from the "Three Kingdoms Chronicles of Du Wei", which dates from the second year of Jianxing in the Shu Han Dynasty (224 AD). There are two protagonists in the story, one is the famous Zhuge Liang, and the other is Du Wei, who is not well known to everyone. Let's take a look at the original text:
(Zhuge Liang) sat on the throne and wrote: "Obey the virtues, hunger and thirst, clear the turbidity, and have no chance to consult." Wang Yuantai, Li Boren, Wang Wenyi, Yang Jixiu, Ding Jungan, Li Yongnan brothers, Wen Zhongbao, etc., every sigh of high ambition, not seen as old. Obscenely empty, leading Guizhou, virtue is heavy, miserable and worried. The imperial court began to be eighteen this year, Tianzi Renmin, Corporal Ed. The people of the world, simu Han, want to be with the King, the Heavenly Shunmin, supplement this Ming Lord, with the merits of Long Jixing, and the merits of Zhu Shuye. Thinking that the wise and the foolish do not conspire against each other, they cut themselves off, and they only keep their labor, and do not try to bend themselves. ”
The gist of this passage is: Zhuge Liang wrote a paragraph to express his views. Zhuge Liang wrote: "I have heard of your gaode straight line for a long time, and I have always wanted to meet you. But we are like turbid waters that do not flow apart, and we have no chance to meet. I admire the lofty aspirations of Wang Yuantai, Li Boren, Wang Wenyi, Yang Jixiu, Ding Jungan, Li Yongnan brothers, and Wen Zhongbao, and I can't see them either. Because I was only a shallow scholar, I often felt that my moral prestige was meager and my responsibility was heavy when I governed Yizhou, so I was worried all day.
The lord is only eighteen years old this year, the son of heaven is wise, and he respects a person with high moral integrity and high esteem, and who has both talent and learning. If today's situation is all thinking of the Han Room, I would like to invite you to follow the will of Heaven, conform to the people's feelings, assist this bright lord, conspire with zhongxing to do great things, and leave your name in qingshi. If you think that magi and fools cannot work together and must isolate themselves from others, this is nothing more than self-closure, which is actually wronging yourself. ”
The idiom to be said in this article comes from the content of Zhuge Liang's letter, called "do not conspire with each other", which means not to consult with each other, metaphorically different views of each other, and it is not appropriate to plan things together. The earliest source of this idiom is the Analects of Wei Linggong, "The Tao is different and does not conspire." ”
Du Wei was a hermit during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty. During Liu Zhang's reign in Yizhou, Du Wei was recruited to serve as an official, but it was not long before Du Wei resigned on the pretext of illness. After Liu Bei entered Yizhou, Du Wei even falsely claimed that he was deaf and could not come out of the door, and refused to serve Liu Bei.
Why did Zhuge Liang spend so much effort to invite a hermit to join the dynasty as an official, its actual intention was very obvious, it was to try to win over the famous people of Yizhou to serve the Shu Han Empire. However, this old master Du was not too sympathetic to Zhuge Liang's kindness. This time Zhuge Liang invited in person, Du Wei only temporarily agreed, but not long after, he only resigned because of his illness, so that Zhuge Liang wrote a letter again to keep it, but in the end he could not keep Du Wei, so he had to give Du Wei a false title of counselor, which was to find a lower step for himself.
Reference Books: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Analects