The Three Visits

Looking Three Times at the Thatched Hut; hanging scroll, ink on silk, by Dai Jin (1368–1644)

The Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage[1][a] (Chinese: 三顧茅廬) refers to the event in the late Eastern Han dynasty (c. 2nd century AD) when the future Shu Han emperor Liu Bei visited Zhuge Liang’s residence three times to ask him for help.[1][5] The Zizhi Tongjian recorded that the meeting(s) took place in 207.[6] The event is briefly mentioned in the historical Records of the Three Kingdoms[7] and fictionalized in more detail in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Jiao, Liwei; Kubler, Cornelius C.; Zhang, Weiguo (2013-08-06). 500 Common Chinese Idioms: An annotated Frequency Dictionary. Routledge. pp. 143–144. ISBN 978-1-136-88256-2.
  2. ^ Sing, Lam Lai (2015-05-20). Conservatism and the Kissinger–Mao Axis: Development of the Twin Global Orders. Lexington Books. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-4985-1140-7.
  3. ^ MacDonald, Margaret Read (2013-12-16). Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook. Routledge. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-135-91714-2.
  4. ^ 臺灣人類學刊. 中央硏究院民族學硏究所. 2004. p. 71.
  5. ^ Yi, Yang (2023). Chinese Narratology II: Ancient and Modern. Taylor & Francis. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-000-96513-1.
  6. ^ Zizhi Tongjian (1084), vol. 65.
  7. ^ Zhu, Liyuan; Blocker, H. Gene (1995). Contemporary Chinese Aesthetics. Peter Lang. p. 291. ISBN 978-0-8204-2527-6.


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