Idioms in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms

1. Three-legged

[Idiom explanation] It is a metaphor for three opposing situations.

[source of allusions] Biography of Hou Huaiyin, Historical Records: The world is divided into three parts, and people live on their feet.

Translation: The world is divided into three parts, just like the tripod's three legs are divided.

2. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang sent troops to the south, captured the local chief Meng Huo seven times, and released him seven times, so that he really surrendered and was no longer an enemy. Metaphor uses strategy to convince the other party.

[The source of allusions] The first discount of Xiao Weichi by Yuan Anonymous: There is nothing wrong with the whip of respecting virtue, and everything is right. You have to rush and bump, and the time will have caught you seven times.

3, three visits to the cottage

[idiom explanation] Gu: visit; A thatched cottage. It was originally a story about Liu Bei's visit to Zhuge Liang at the end of Han Dynasty. Metaphor sincerely, invited again and again.

[Source of allusions] Yuan Ma Zhiyuan's "Monument to the Blessing" is the first fold: I live in a cottage, so who can look after the cottage?

4. Looking at Shu in Delong

[Idiom explanation] Long: refers to Gansu area; Shu: It refers to Sichuan area. Having gained Longyou, we want to capture West Shu. Metaphor is insatiable.

[source of allusions] "Lu Xun's Letters to Tao Yuanqing": I really hope that my brother is free and draw a few more, although it is too long to see.

5. Debate over Confucianism

[Idiom explanation] Debate over words: fierce debate; Confucianism: refers to scholars. Arguing with many people and refuting each other.

[the source of allusions] The 43rd Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Ming Luo Guanzhong: "Zhuge Liang's verbal warfare is full of Confucianism. “