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From :   Pooshybooshy

Date : 2008-01-08 / 10:42PM

Ni hao again, Benny. My mistake; I didn’t mean name, but Title. It’s the title of a work by the strategist Zhuge Liang, in which he advises Liu Bei not to attack Cao Cao while he is strong, but to ally with Sun Quan and to take the lands of Jingzhou to expand his empire- so that means it wouldn’t be Pinyin… it might be that it just doesn’t have a meaning, but I assume it must of had a meaning. It’s not too important, but I’d like to know what it means (if it has a meaning).
Seeing as it was written in the third century, I have no idea if it was given that name from the moment it was created, or if it has only been recently adopted. :-/

Xia ci jian. ;)

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Jenny

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2008-01-09 / 01:42PM

Hi,Pooshybooshy.
“LongzhongDui” in chinese is “隆中对”.
“Longzhong” is a name of place which zhuge liang lived in。I think “dui” is one kind of article form has no substantive meaning.

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2008-01-09 / 04:33PM

Hey! Now let me put everything organized。lóng zhōng duì隆中对 is a very famous dialogue between liu bei and zhu ge liang. At that moment. liu bei was in his difficult situation, so asked zhu ge liang for advice. As you know, he helped liu bei a lot.

There is a famous novel called"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" you can have a look.

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