People used to think that Zhuge Liang's "fledgling first achievement" was to burn Bowangpo, but this statement came from the description in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and there was no such record in the official history. The actual situation was that Bowangpo was burned in the twelfth year of Jian 'an (207), and Liu Bei was in charge of the battle. At that time, Zhuge Liang was still lying high in Longzhong, and Liu Bei arrived at Caotang in the thirteenth year of Jian 'an (208).

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1. The full name of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, also known as Biography of the Three Kingdoms. The author is Luo Guanzhong, a novelist and dramatist in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties.

The novel describes the contradictions and struggles between the political and military groups of Wei, Shu and Wu Sanda, led by Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan in the 3rd century A.D., and shows the sharp, complex and distinct political and military conflicts in that era under the broad social and historical background, which has had a far-reaching impact on the political and military strategy of later generations.

This novel is one of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels and China's first historical chapter novel.

2. The History of the Three Kingdoms is a biographical national history written by Chen Shou, a historian in the Western Jin Dynasty. It records the biographical chronology of Cao Wei, Shu Han and Wu Dong during the Three Kingdoms period in China, and it is one of the "four great histories" with the highest evaluation among the twenty-four histories.

The History of the Three Kingdoms was first circulated in three books: Shu Wei, Shu Shu and Wu Shu. In the sixth year of Xianping (1003), three books were merged into one in the Northern Song Dynasty, and finally became one book. There are 65 volumes in the book, 30 in Shu Wei, 0/5 in Shushu/KLOC and 20 in Wu Shu. This book completely depicts the historical panorama of China from division to unification in the last hundred years from the end of Han Dynasty to the beginning of Jin Dynasty.

The History of the Three Kingdoms is short in narrative, three of which are rarely repeated, rich in information and meticulous in selection of materials, which have been valued by historians of past dynasties and regarded as biographical historical masterpieces.

The reflection is sixty-five, Shu Wei thirty, Shu Shu fifteen and Wu Shu twenty. The name of the reflection: no ambition, no ambition. Wei Zheng has biographies, Shu and Wu only have biographies, and Chen Shou is a courtier of the Jin Dynasty, who won the world after Wei, so the History of the Three Kingdoms respects Wei as orthodox.