Zhūgě Liàng niánqīng shí yǐnjū zài Xiāngyáng de Lóngzhōng.
Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion at Longzhong near Xiangyang in his youth.
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The Siege of Xiangyang (襄阳之战, 1267-1273) was the six-year showdown that broke the Southern Song. Held by the Lü brothers against Kublai Khan's Mongol forces - including newly-imported Persian counterweight trebuchets - its fall opened the road to Hangzhou.
Jin Yong's wuxia trilogy makes Xiangyang the symbolic last bastion of Han China; in the sequel 神雕侠侣 (The Return of the Condor Heroes), Guo Jing dies defending its walls.
