Zhuge Liang will call the wind and rain, and watch the sky at night. Is it fairy or evil?

In fact, both immortals and goblins deified Zhuge Liang to some extent. This is not the creation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but the result of long-term accumulation. Zhuge Liang is undoubtedly one of the key figures in the romance of the Three Kingdoms. In order to highlight his resourcefulness, the author took pains to record many stories that had nothing to do with him in history, and even fabricated myths about him. In the 1920s, Mr. Lu Xun once said in "A Brief History of China's Novels", "As for writing people, it is also quite a loss, so that to show that Liu Bei's length and thickness are close to falsehood, and Zhuge Liang's wisdom is close to demon."

Lu Xun said here that in order to highlight Zhuge Liang's cleverness, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms wrote that he was resourceful and almost omnipotent, but he wrote like a devil, which seemed unreal. The so-called evil here actually refers to some strange descriptions of Zhuge Liang in the novel. One thing that impressed me the most was that during his stay in Battle of Red Cliffs, he wore cassock and borrowed the east wind from the sky. For example, when he left Qishan five times, he did Taoism and land contraction. This is nothing. The most surprising thing is that 30 years after Wargo's death, he smuggled Wei Jun to Yin Ping.

He saw the stone tablet inscribed by Zhuge Liang, which read: "When a fire starts, someone has passed;" It turned out that he had predicted that in the first year of Yan Xing, Wargo would sneak into this place, and he and Zhong would soon die. All this has come true. Such descriptions can be found everywhere in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Such Zhuge Liang is not only a strategist who strategizes thousands of miles away and is sure to win, but also a master who gives orders and divines the stars. In the eyes of many ancient readers, Zhuge Liang is simply a god with immortal spirit. He is more sacred and worthy of worship. However, under the modern thinking, the description of Zhuge Liang will inevitably make readers feel absurd and somewhat unacceptable. No wonder Lu Xun thinks he is a demon.