#HistoryTalk#Zhuge Liang
When he was a child, he studied the art of war with Mr. Shui Jing, who lived in seclusion in the south of Xiangyang City. Mr. Water Mirror raised a rooster, and as soon as the rooster cried three times at noon, Mr. Water Mirror left class. Zhuge Liang listened to the lecture very enjoyably. Later, he came up with a way to sew a pocket into his pants and grab a few handfuls of millet in his pocket every day when he went to school. When noon approached, he quietly sprinkled a handful of millet out the window. When the rooster saw that there was yellow millet, he didn't care about the cry, so he pecked at it. Just after pecking, Zhuge Liang sprinkled another handful until he finished scattering the millet in his pocket.
When the rooster finished eating the millet in his pocket and barked again, Mr. Shui Jing talked about an extra hour's lesson, but the senior lady was hungry, and after a long time, he couldn't help but complain a few words: "How did you get it so late, it's past noon, and I don't know if I'm hungry!" "Didn't you hear the chicken bark?" Mr. Water Mirror said.
Shi Niang is a smart person and knows that there must be a mystery in it. The next day, when it was almost noon, she quietly came to the courtyard, and saw that the flower-necked rooster was just about to stretch its neck and call, when someone threw a handful of millet from the study window. She stepped forward, looked at the matter carefully, and quietly went home again. On this day, Mr. Shui Jing came back, and the senior lady smiled and said: "You are not as good as Little Zhuge as a gentleman." So she told Mr. Water Mirror what she had just seen. Mr. Shui Jing was stunned after hearing this, and laughed again, thinking that Zhuge Liang was really smart to feed chickens to study, and he must be a wizard in the future.
After studying hard, Zhuge Liang finally became an outstanding politician and military strategist, helping Liu Bei establish the Shu Han* and create a career for the Han dynasty. Zhuge Liang's representative prose works include "The Departure Table" and "The Book of Commandments". He once invented wooden bull flowing horses, Kong Ming lanterns, etc., and transformed the crossbow, called Zhuge Lianxiao, which can fire ten arrows in one crossbow. Zhuge Liang "bowed to the fullest, and died later" in his life, and was a representative figure of loyal ministers and wise men in traditional Chinese culture.