Kong Mingqiao borrowed the meaning of Dongfeng.

Zhuge Liang is good at predicting the weather. He knew when there would be a southeast wind by forecasting, so as to achieve the goal of burning Chibi. Metaphor is to use the change of weather in time and correctly to fight and win! Describe that you can predict in advance and skillfully use external forces to achieve your goals.

The story of Kong Ming borrowing from Dongfeng: In 208 AD, Cao Cao led an army to attack Sun Quan, and Sun Quan and Liu Bei formed an alliance against Cao Cao.

Zhou Yu, the general of Sun Quan, was very jealous of Zhuge Liang's talent and wanted to design and kill Zhuge Liang, so he asked Zhuge Liang to make a military order and build 100 thousand arrows in ten days. Zhuge Liang skillfully used the foggy weather to get 100 thousand arrows from Cao Cao with a straw boat, and Zhou Yu's plan to kill Zhuge Liang failed.

Later, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang made a plan to burn Chibi, but it was winter and the northwest wind blew for several days, so the plan to burn Chibi could not be implemented. The fire attack will not only burn Cao Jun, but also hurt himself. Zhou Yu was impatient and fell ill. Zhuge Liang went to see Zhou Yu and wrote a prescription: "If you want to break Cao Bing, you need fire. Everything is ready, only the east wind. "

Zhou Yu admitted that Zhuge Liang had guessed his heart. Zhuge Liang said that he could borrow the east wind and let Zhou Yu build a nine-foot-high seven-star altar for him. Zhou Yu did this, and Zhuge Liang went to the altar. A few days later, the southeast wind really blew, and Zhou Yu once again had the idea of killing Zhuge Liang, but Zhuge Liang had guessed Zhou Yu's intention to harm himself.

Before Zhou Yu's people arrived, he returned to his base area, Xiakou. Before leaving, he left a message to Zhou Yu: "I hope Governor Zhou can make good use of this wind to break Cao Bing, and Zhuge Liang will temporarily return to Xiakou, and we will meet again another day."

The story of Zhuge Liang's borrowing from the east wind has been widely circulated among the people in China, becoming a symbolic event of Zhuge Liang's resourcefulness. In fact, the east wind at Chibi was not borrowed by Zhuge Liang, but the normal change of the weather, and Zhuge Liang just used the weather skillfully. Therefore, Zhuge Liang borrowed an idiom from the east wind to use the weather skillfully.

Extended data

The story of Kong Ming's borrowing from the East Wind comes from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which the story of Kong Ming's borrowing from the East Wind is designed, which highlights his intelligence.

On the surface, Kongming borrowed the east wind, which made the Battle of Red Cliffs-China Sun-Liu alliance burn Chibi successfully. In fact, the southeast wind at that time was an inevitable weather change during the winter solstice season, not borrowed by Kong Ming. Therefore, Kong Ming used Dongfeng to play an idiom, which was a clever use of time.

Zhuge Liang didn't take part in Battle of Red Cliffs in history, and he didn't have the ability to give orders. Zhou Yu is in command of Battle of Red Cliffs, and the east wind is a natural phenomenon on the Yangtze River. Zhou Yu and Huang Gai practiced for a long time in the local water army, and they knew exactly when the east wind started. They cleverly seized the fighter plane and defeated Cao Jun, and Zhou Yu was very broad-minded, which was different from the description in the romance.

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