After Event "Kong Ming"

"After-event Kong Ming, or After-event Zhuge Liang."



Zhuge Liang (181-234) was one of the greatest strategists who served Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms war in China.


(The image taken from 3Kingdoms depicts a statue of Zhuge Liang)

Books has been written regarding that war such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms or San Guo
Yan Yi by Luo Guanzhong.


Zhuge Liang was known as the Sleeping Dragon as he isn't one who does anything rashly and rushed. He was one of the most accomplished during his time and is often depicted with a fan made of crane feathers, though some calls it goose feathers. Zhuge Liang was known as Kong Ming to close relations.

"After-event Kong Ming" is now a popular Chinese idiom.

It refers to someone who acts highly-knowledgeable and superior in an event that has already occurred. Ex- The tsunami had striked and Bobbie Boo went around telling people, "I knew this would happen of course. Which is why I told you before.....etc etc"

When in actual reality, he really knew little or nothing about the event before it happened.

As Zhuge Liang was a extremely intelligent person, he knew many things others did not and was often accurate with his predictions. Someone who was an "After-event Kong Ming" is basically someone who pretends to be highly intellectual on that event after it had already happened.

A faker of sorts =3