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When I was in middle school, when I was studying Chinese, the most headache was to memorize those texts, many articles were difficult to understand, and people who memorized them had headaches. I still remember the difficulties of memorizing Zhuge Liang's "Table of Renunciation", and I don't know how many times I have complained about Zhuge Murafu, what letter to write to the emperor, and I have something to say directly.
However, if Zhuge Liang really did not write this "Table of Teachers" at that time, and directly went to talk to the lord Liu Chan, then today we will not memorize this "Table of Teachers", but we will also lose many opportunities to understand the truth of history.
The ancients did not have developed communication, and in case of trouble, they either entrusted people to carry letters or communicated in the form of letters on paper. It is also an alternative kind of history.
The history of the Three Kingdoms has always been an inexhaustible topic, and in recent years, many history research enthusiasts have not been satisfied with simply analyzing history from the records of people or things in history books or documents, but they have taken a biased and unique path to try to capture various historical details from a different research angle than in the past, in order to review and analyze the history of the Three Kingdoms period.
"Chaotic Times" is an unusual book of analysis of the history of the Three Kingdoms, its author has grown up with multiple identities, both writers and screenwriters, focusing on the planning and writing of historical books, film and television dramas, publishing a number of books related to the study of the history of the Three Kingdoms, and has a unique insight into the history of the Three Kingdoms.
The starting point of the author's research in the book is precisely the correspondence between various characters in the Three Kingdoms period, and the classic "Table of Teachers" mentioned earlier will naturally be selected, in addition to many other epistle texts that will meet the reader in this book. Not only did talented courtiers like Cao Zhi, Ji Kang, and Zhuge Liang write letters, but also the writings written by some slightly literate warriors would also appear here.
The form of the letter is naturally different from the ordinary letter, only limited to talking about home, such as what kind of battle table, the next battle book, the self-recommendation letter, etc. can be classified as letters.
If you think that the book is just a summary of these letters, you are misunderstanding the book. The author's purpose in writing this book is to explore the various details in these letters, to analyze the history hidden in the vast river of history, and to restore the real historical figures.
It is said that in the second year after writing the "Table of Departures", Zhuge Liang launched the Northern Expedition twice, and wrote the "Table of Later Divisions" before the Second Northern Expedition, but because the style of the two articles before and after the two articles was so different, some people suspected that the latter was not zhuge Liang at all.
Doubt alone cannot make up one's mind about history, it must have sufficient basis. Through the layered analysis of the article "Table of Later Teachers", the author draws three possible conclusions, although different, but it is undeniable that the significance of this letter is great, perhaps more profound than the previous one.
This is one of the great charms of this book, the direction of historical research is unfolded through these letters, but it is not completely superstitious about these letters, and the most important thing is to have its own opinions and judgments!