Borrowing arrows from a straw boat

Definition: Use wisdom and rely on other people's human or financial resources to achieve your own goals.

The 46th chapter of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" uses the phrase "Kong Ming borrowed an arrow for his cunning plan, and Huang Gai was punished for his secret plan."

Afterwords

Borrowing arrows from a straw boat—and enjoying the harvest

Borrowing arrows from a straw boat—and returning home with a full load

Borrowing arrows from a straw boat—there are Borrowing without repayment

Borrowing arrows from a straw boat - wrong (fog)

Zhuge Liang borrowing arrows from a straw boat - using a suspicious strategy

Zhuge Liang's straw boat Borrowing Arrows - A Magical Plan

Lu Su boarded Kong Ming's ship - confused

Summary of Contents

This text is based on my country's famous classical historical novel Rewritten from a passage in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The story is that Zhou Yu was jealous of Zhuge Liang's talents and wanted to frame him. Zhuge Liang battled wits with Zhou Yu and won cleverly. Zhou Yu had to admire that Zhuge Liang's talent was better than his own.

Paragraph meaning

The first paragraph (sections 1-2): It tells that Zhou Yu was jealous of Zhuge Liang's talent and made things difficult for Zhuge Liang with the task of making 100,000 arrows in a short period of time.

The second paragraph (sections 3 to 5). It is said that Zhou Yu sent Lu Su to find out how Zhuge Liang made arrows, and Zhuge Liang asked Lu Su to help prepare for borrowing arrows.

The third paragraph (sections 6-9): Talks about Zhuge Liang using a straw boat to borrow arrows from Cao's army.

The fourth paragraph (section 10): Talking about Zhuge Liang delivering the arrow as scheduled, Zhou Yu had to admire that Zhuge Liang's talent was better than his own.

Central Idea

This article narrates the story of Zhuge Liang's ingenious design of "borrowing arrows from a straw boat" and praises Zhuge Liang's outstanding talent and broad mind for taking the overall situation into consideration.

Writing characteristics

1. The plot is vivid and exciting.

2. Pay attention to using the character's language to express the character's psychology and develop conflicts, so the character image is clear. For example, in the first paragraph of the text, Zhou Yu was jealous of Zhuge Liang's talent and tried to use his ability to make 100,000 arrows in a short period of time. Conspiracy to make things difficult for Zhuge Liang, the two sides went through a "battle of words" to highlight the character image: Zhou Yu has a gentle face and a poisonous heart, harboring murderous intentions in his chest, and is delighted with his success. Zhuge Liang, however, knew everything was as good as a god, and he followed his plan without showing any signs of it.

Study point tips

1. Learn new words in this lesson and practice making sentences using "entrust" and "easily".

2. Clarify the narrative sequence of the article, and distinguish the causes and consequences of things based on understanding the content of the text.

3． Read the text emotionally.

Knowledge expansion

1. Background introduction:

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan each occupied one side and attacked each other. At that time, Cao Cao had just defeated Liu Bei and sent troops to attack Sun Quan. So Liu Bei and Sun Quan united to resist Cao Cao. Liu Bei sent Zhuge Liang to Sun Quan to help him fight. Sun Quan's general Zhou Yu was jealous of Zhuge Liang's talents and wanted to frame him. The story of "The Straw Boat Borrowing Arrows" happened when they joined forces to fight against Cao Cao.

2. Character introduction:

Zhuge Liang: courtesy name Kongming, a statesman and strategist of the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period.

Zhou Yu: courtesy name Gongjin, a famous general of Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period and the governor of Soochow troops.

Lu Su: courtesy name Zijing, a famous general of Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period. After the death of Zhou Yu, he was the governor of Soochow's military force.

Cao Cao: courtesy name Mengde, a statesman and military strategist during the Three Kingdoms period. He was the prime minister during the reign of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and later established the Wei State during the Three Kingdoms period.

The straw boat borrowing arrows in the official history

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a novel with a lot of fictional elements. In the official history, the straw boat borrowing arrows happened during the Ruxu Battle between Sun Quan and Cao Cao. , Sun Quan took a boat to personally spy on Cao Cao's military situation. Cao Cao found out and ordered his soldiers to shoot arrows to attack. Sun Quan's boat was deflected and almost sank. He turned the boat around and let the arrows continue to shoot. In this way, the boat was balanced, and Sun Quan Drive the ship away. Cao Cao was very impressed by Sun Quan's cleverness and left a famous saying: "Having a son should be like Sun Zhongmou."

Zhuge Liang's "borrowing arrows from a straw boat" is one of the most exciting stories in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". After reading this story, people often marvel at Zhuge Liang's intelligence. However, Zhuge Liang never did this in his life. So, was this story made up by Luo Guanzhong out of thin air? That's not the case, because he does have his roots. See below

According to Pei Song's annotation in "Three Kingdoms? Book of Wu? The Second Biography of Master Wu", in the first month of the eighteenth year of Jian'an (AD 213), Cao Cao and Sun Quan faced off against each other in Ruxu (today's West Chao Lake, Chao County, Anhui Province). a section of the Yangtze River). In the first battle, Cao's army was defeated and could not hold on. One day, Sun Quan took advantage of the mist on the water and took a light boat to break into Cao Jun's front line from Ruxukou to observe Cao Jun's deployment. Sun Quan's canoe traveled five or six miles, and the drums and drums were beating. However, Cao Cao was suspicious by nature. Seeing the power of Sun Jun's purge, he was afraid of fraud and did not dare to fight. He sighed and said: "I should have a son like Sun Zhongmou, and Liu Jingsheng's son has the ears of a pig!" "Subsequently, Cao Cao ordered all bows and crossbows to fire at the Wu ship. After a while, Sun Quan's boat tilted due to too many arrows on one side, and was in danger of capsizing. Sun Quan ordered the ship to be turned around so that the other side would receive another arrow. After a while, the arrows were all leveled, and Sun Jun returned safely. Only then did Cao Cao realize that he had been fooled.

It can be seen that it was not Zhuge Liang who "borrowed arrows from a straw boat", but Sun Quan, and this incident happened five years after the Battle of Chibi.