Longzhongとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Longzhong is a scenic area with 1700 years of history and a total area of 209 square kilometres (81 sq mi) located at the junction of three counties away from Hubei Xiangfan: Xiangyang, Nanzhang and Gucheng, which is approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) away from Xiangfan City. The famous statesman Zhuge Liang from the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history lived in Longzhong seclusively for more than ten years. It is where Liu Bei met Zhuge Liang and the story of the Longzhong Plan occurred. Liu Bei made three trips before he was able to see Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang showed Liu Bei the Longzhong Plan, a long-term strategy that outlined how Liu Bei could compete with Cao Cao. This episode gave the birth to a modern Chinese idiom, “San Gu Mao Lu”, which means to repeatedly request somebody to take up a responsible post (simplified Chinese: 三顾茅庐; traditional Chinese: 三顧茅廬; pinyin: sān gù máolú).