Qin and Han · Strategist and Statesman

Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮

Attested AD 208 - AD 214

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhuge Liang was a Strategist and Statesman.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Kongming	孔明	Kongming
Epithet	Crouching Dragon	臥龍	Wolong

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 208 to AD 214 Jingzhou and Shu service with Liu Bei
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Three Kingdoms 37, passage 5

Family

Sibling of Elder Sister of Zhuge Liang
elder sister 小姊 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 37, passage 12

Places and affiliations

Polity Shu Han · Relation Served
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 37, passage 51

Events and relationships

Relation Colleague of · Person Pang Tong (龐統)
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 37, passage 51

References in the histories

Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 37Volume 37: Book of Shu 7: Biographies of Pang Tong and Fa Zheng · 7 passages

〈《襄陽記》曰：諸葛孔明為臥龍，龐士元為鳳雛，司馬德操為水鏡，皆龐德公語也。〈The Xiangyang Ji records that people called Zhuge Liang the Sleeping Dragon, Pang Tong the Fledgling Phoenix, and Sima Hui the Clear Mirror of Water—epithets attributed to Pang Degong.

孔明每至其家，獨拜床下，德公初不令止。 Whenever Zhuge Liang visited, he alone bowed low at the bedside; Degong did not at first tell him to rise.

諸葛亮亦言之於先主，先主見與善譚，大器之，以為治中從事。 Zhuge Liang spoke for him as well. Liu Bei received Tong, conversed at length, thought highly of him, and named him Assistant Clerk to the Administrator.

時孔明諫孤莫行，其意獨篤，亦慮此也。 Zhuge Liang alone urged me not to travel—his concern ran deepest because he foresaw exactly this.

親待亞於諸葛亮，遂與亮併為軍師中郎將。 He honored Tong next after Zhuge Liang and made Tong and Liang joint Military Advisers of the Household.

亮留鎮荊州。 Zhuge Liang stayed behind to guard Jingzhou.

拜統父議郎，遷諫議大夫，諸葛亮親為之拜。 He ennobled Tong’s father as a Court Gentleman and advanced him to Grand Counselor of the Household; Zhuge Liang himself led the ceremony of respect.