Zhuge Liang was a strange man during the Three Kingdoms period. After his glorious life was artistically processed, many magical stories and prophecies were born. , Cover eighteen, and the dragon will lie down again? These two prophecies appeared on the stone tablets unearthed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties 1,000 years later.
01. Thousand-Year Prophecy 1: Calculating the affairs of the world and teasing the younger generation Liu Bowen
Zhuge Liang’s first thousand-year prophecy happened in the early years of the Ming Dynasty. Liu Bowen was helping Zhu Yuanzhang establish After the Ming Dynasty, he felt that he was no less capable than Zhuge Liang, but the people said that he was "Zhuge Liang of the Ming Dynasty and Liu Bowen, the military counselor of the later dynasty".
Liu Bowen, who is also a warlock, naturally does not want to live under Zhuge Liang's halo all his life. In order to prove himself, he plans to find Zhuge Liang's mysterious tomb and dig it up to show that what he has learned has exceeded Zhuge Liang.
After Liu Bowen's calculation, he came to Zhuge Liang's tomb. As soon as he excavated, he found a stone tablet. On this stone tablet was engraved "I am here, no one is here". Liu Bowen saw the inscription. Finally, he proudly said that Zhuge Liang was nothing more than that, and dug in even more energetically.
When Liu Bowen was about to completely dig the tomb passage, another stone tablet appeared. There were actually 6 incredible characters on this stone tablet: Only Bowen came alone.
After Liu Bowen saw these 6 words, it was like a bolt from the blue. He completely surrendered to Zhuge Liang's wisdom and knelt three times and kowtowed to him.
02. Millennium Prophecy 2: Instructions are written on the stone tablet, and you will sleep peacefully after a thousand years
This prophecy occurred in Zhuge Liang’s Wuhou Temple. It is said that after Mr. Zhuge’s death, the world commemorated him. , a Wuhou Temple was built specifically for him. After 1,000 years of ups and downs, by the time of the Qing Dynasty, the Wuhou Temple was dilapidated, so an official named Song Ke led people to repair it.
But during the repair process, they accidentally discovered an ancient stone tablet full of traces of time, with vaguely engraved words on it: Lord of Water and Moon? Geng Bu Da? Gai Shiba? Dragon Relying? There are 12 characters in total. This inscription puzzled Song Ke, so he consulted local knowledgeable people and got the answer.
It turns out that this inscription is a split word couplet, and when they are put back together, they are: Qing (if taken apart, there are three dots on the left: "水", "月" on the bottom, and "Zhu" on the top), Kang ( The combined deformation of "Geng" and "Bu Da"), Song Dynasty (Bao Hijab, "Ten" and "Eight" put together to form wood), Zhuge Liang fell asleep again.
Translate this sentence into popular vernacular: During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, a man named Song would let me sleep peacefully again. ?Zhuge Liang
After understanding the meaning of the inscription, Song Ke couldn't help but marvel. He was deeply impressed by Zhuge Liang's great wisdom. He immediately renovated the Wuhou Temple and built a pavilion where the inscription was found. , and a tomb was rebuilt to commemorate Zhuge Liang.
03. Zhuge was deified, and the stories and prophecies were fabricated by later generations
In fact, if you analyze these prophecies and stories calmly and objectively, you will find many loopholes. During his lifetime, Zhuge Liang was dedicated to reviving the Han Dynasty. He worked hard all day long and was personally involved in everything.
Moreover, before Zhuge Liang died, he told Liu Chan to send four strong men to carry his coffin southward, and then bury it when the rope was broken. Zhuge Liang's tomb was just a simple one. , there are no tomb passages, stone tablets, etc. After the incident, these four strong men were also silenced by Liu Chan, and basically no one would look for his tomb.
As for Liu Bowen, after he helped Zhu Yuanzhang complete his great cause, he became a mature and steady person. He was not the kind of fool who had no need to dig someone's grave.
In addition, Taoist practitioners must respect their predecessors. Even if he dissatisfied with Zhuge Liang, he would not do such immoral things as digging people's graves. He does not even have the most basic respect and is not worthy of being called Role model. The person who made up this story is probably a fan of Liu Bowen. In the Ming Dynasty, people regarded Liu Bowen as a god. This story is more likely to come from the storytellers of the Qing Dynasty.
As for the 12-character prophecy of Wuhou Temple in the Qing Dynasty, it is even more unbelievable.
Wuhou Temple has no direct relationship with Zhuge Liang himself. Zhuge Liang will not leave any prophecies here. He is not buried here, so there is no need for anyone to rebury him.
In the Wuhou Temple, there are only symbolic tombs from beginning to end. Judging from the motives, conditions, etc., these are just stories made up by Jianghu storytellers. Simply speaking from the perspective of legends, these stories sound really fascinating and make people admire Zhuge Liang even more.
However, we still have to clearly realize that the thousand-year prophecy is not the handwriting of Mr. Zhuge Wolong, it is only part of his myths and legends.