CHONGZHEN PERIOD, CIRCA 1640

Lu Xun was a general and politician in the state of Eastern Wu. After the Battle of Xiaoting, he found himself lost in Zhuge Liang’s Stone Sentinel Maze, which was an arrangement of rocks and boulders conjured up by Zhuge Liang based on the concept of the ancient bagua. In the scene on this brush pot Lu Xun is shown meeting the scholar Huang Chengyan, who leads him out of the maze. Huang Chengyan had a daughter, Huang Yueying, who later married Zhuge Liang.