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Three Kingdoms 365

Three Kingdoms 365
[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 142] Three Slices of the World — Zhuge Liang hands Liu Bei a map of the three realms
Under the afternoon light, the three slices of the five-chi (尺) map grew clearer by one measure. Kongming (孔明), with the tip of his fan, placed a dot upon each slice in turn. The three dots were each a different color. At the center of …
Yeon Samheum, the Commentator · 2026/10/14 20:10
Three Kingdoms 365
[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 141] A Map of Five Measures — Zhuge Liang unfolds a map of the three realms for Liu Bei, who sees his own name placed at its center.
On the morning after the third stride, Kongming (孔明) opened before Liu Bei (劉備) a paper map five chi (尺) wide. The map followed the same composition as the three strands drawn upon the earth of the yard yesterday. Only now, upon the p…
Yeon Samheum, the Commentator · 2026/10/13 20:10
Three Kingdoms 365
[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 140] The Courtyard of the One Who Waits — Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang sketch a map of the realm in the courtyard dirt
On the morning after the third gate had opened, Liu Bei (劉備) and Kongming (孔明) continued their conversation upon the stone in the yard at Wolonggang (臥龍崗). The first brief exchange had been about "the difference between a name and a…
Yeon Samheum, the Commentator · 2026/10/12 20:10
Three Kingdoms 365
[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 139] The Third Door — Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang meet after the third visit
On a morning in the new spring of Jian'an 14 (209 CE), three horses stood again before the brushwood gate of Wolonggang (臥龍崗) in Nanyang (南陽). Liu Bei (劉備) was not yet at the threshold of fifty-nine, but in the spring of his forty-e…
Yeon Samheum, the Commentator · 2026/10/11 20:10
Three Kingdoms 365
[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 138] Three Men Turning Back — Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei sit side by side in the backyard at dusk
It was the evening after Zhang Fei's (張飛) first complaint had been laid down in the back yard. The three men sat side by side upon a stone. Liu Bei (劉備) in the middle, Guan Yu (關羽) on the left, Zhang Fei on the right. The sun had lea…
Yeon Samheum, the Commentator · 2026/10/10 20:10
Three Kingdoms 365
[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 137] Zhang Fei — The day Zhang Fei first voiced his complaint to his brothers
It was the afternoon of the fifth day after they had returned from the second stride that had come to nothing. In the back yard of the magistrate's office at Xinye (新野), Liu Bei (劉備) was walking his round, as on any afternoon. Guan Yu …
Yeon Samheum, the Commentator · 2026/10/09 20:10
Three Kingdoms 365
[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 136] Twice the Road for Nothing — Liu Bei visits Wolong Ridge a second time, finds Zhuge Jun and leaves a letter
Four months had passed since the frost of the first visit melted. An autumn wind had come and gone, and the three characters above the brushwood gate of Wolonggang (臥龍崗) hung where they had hung before. On an early morning in the late a…
Yeon Samheum, the Commentator · 2026/10/08 20:10
Three Kingdoms 365
[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 135] Footprints on the First Snow — Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei visit Zhuge Liang’s hut but find no one home
Ten months after Xu Shu (徐庶) had left, it was an early morning at the threshold of the early summer of Jian'an 13 (208 CE). The season for first snow in the back yard of Xinye (新野) had already passed. But a late-spring rain that came u…
Yeon Samheum, the Commentator · 2026/10/07 20:10
Three Kingdoms 365
[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 134] He Leaves One Word Behind — Xu Shu tells Liu Bei Zhuge Liang’s name and dwelling place.
At dawn the next morning, at the center of the guest hall at Xinye (新野), Xu Shu (徐庶) stood with his hands clasped before Liu Bei (劉備). Behind them, Guan Yu (關羽) and Zhang Fei (張飛) had already taken their places. Sleep had not yet…
Yeon Samheum, the Commentator · 2026/10/06 20:10
Three Kingdoms 365
[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 133] Letters She Did Not Write — Xu Shu weighs two letters, one from his mother and one forged.
The two letters reached the guest hall at Xinye (新野) on the same evening because Cheng Yu's (程昱) two messengers had, by chance, ridden at matching speeds. That evening, Xu Shu (徐庶) went alone into a small inner room and laid the two …
Yeon Samheum, the Commentator · 2026/10/05 20:10

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