Zhūgě Liàng jí 諸葛亮集
Collected Works of Zhuge Liang (Reconstructed) by 諸葛亮 (撰)
About the work
A reconstructed collection (jíyìběn 輯佚本) of the literary and administrative writings of Zhūgě Liàng 諸葛亮 (181–234 CE), Prime Minister of Shǔ-Hàn 蜀漢. Organized in five juǎn, the collection opens with the 〈草廬對〉 (Thatched Cottage Dialogue, also known as the 隆中對 Lóngzhōng Dialogue), the famous strategic address to Liú Bèi 劉備 preserved verbatim in Sān guó zhì (Shǔzhì 蜀志, juǎn 35, Zhūgě Liàng biography and Péi Sōngzhī 裴松之 annotation). Further contents include edicts addressed to later emperor Liú Shàn 劉禪 (〈為先帝與後帝遺詔〉, 〈又詔〉, 〈南征詔〉), the canonical 〈前出師表〉 (First Memorial on the Dispatch of Troops), military memorials, administrative documents, and letters. Citations are drawn from Sān guó zhì biographies and Péi Sōngzhī’s annotations quoting the Zhūgě Liàng jí 諸葛亮集. Compiled by Zhāng Pǔ 張溥 for his Hàn Wèi Liùcháo bǎisān jiā jí 漢魏六朝百三家集.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This text is an extra-catalog reconstruction not included in the Sìkù quánshū 四庫全書.
Abstract
Zhūgě Liàng 諸葛亮 (181–234 CE; zì Kǒngmíng 孔明; posthumous title Wǔhóu 武侯, Martial Marquis; CBDB id 25403) was a native of Yángdū 陽都 (modern Shandong) who spent his early years in retirement near Jīngzhōu 荊州 at the Lóngzhōng 隆中 estate (modern Hubei), where Liú Bèi 劉備 famously visited him three times before he emerged from seclusion (207 CE) — the basis of the idiom sāngu máolú 三顧茅廬 (three visits to the thatched cottage). He served as Liú Bèi’s chief strategist and, after Liú Bèi’s death (223 CE), as regent and Prime Minister (chéngxiàng 丞相) for Liú Shàn 劉禪. He died on campaign against the Wèi state (234 CE) at the Battle of Wǔzhàngyuán 五丈原. His biography is in Sān guó zhì (Shǔzhì, juǎn 35). See 諸葛亮 for full biography.
Zhuge Liang is one of the most celebrated statesmen and strategists in Chinese history, revered across the centuries as the ideal of the loyal, wise minister. His 〈出師表〉 (Memorial on Sending out the Troops) — preserved in Wén xuǎn (juǎn 37) — became a canonical model of loyal remonstrance and is among the most famous documents in classical Chinese prose. The 〈草廬對〉 is the foundational text of the Three Kingdoms strategic analysis, outlining the tiānxià sānfēn 天下三分 (tripartite division of the realm) strategy. A collection of his writings (Zhūgě Liàng jí 諸葛亮集) in twenty-four juǎn was compiled at the order of Liú Shàn shortly after Zhuge Liang’s death (attested in Sān guó zhì), making it one of the earliest deliberate literary compilations of a single official’s writings in Chinese history; this original collection is lost. Zhāng Pǔ’s reconstruction recovers fragments cited in Sān guó zhì biographies and annotations. The standard reconstruction of his prose is in the annotated edition Zhūgě Liàng jí 諸葛亮集 (Zhōnghuá, 1960).
Translations and research
- Knechtges, David R., and Taiping Chang, eds. Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature: A Reference Guide. Leiden: Brill, 2010–2014. Entry on Zhuge Liang.
- De Crespigny, Rafe. Imperial Warlord: A Biography of Cao Cao, 155–220 AD. Brill, 2010. (Context for the Three Kingdoms period.)
- Knechtges, David R. Wen Xuan, or Selections of Refined Literature. Princeton University Press, 1982–1996. Translations of the Chūshī biǎo 出師表.
- Zhōnghuá shūjú 中華書局, ed. Zhūgě Liàng jí 諸葛亮集. Zhōnghuá, 1960. Standard annotated reconstruction.
Links
- Wikipedia: Zhuge Liang