Before the song and Yuan Dynasties,

Before the song and Yuan Dynasties, the folk people and intellectuals had different paths for the deification of Zhuge Liang's image. The folk people added religious and mysterious elements to Zhuge Liang's story from the memory of Zhuge Liang, which gradually separated him from the image in the historical biography and gave him a supernatural color; Intellectuals are willing to praise Zhuge Liang from the level of wisdom and spirit because they respect Zhuge Liang, so that Zhuge Liang's status has been continuously raised, and even rose to the status of "God" and worshipped. In the song and Yuan Dynasties, economic development promoted the cultural integration among all levels. On the one hand, the legends about Zhuge Liang continued to spread among the people, and its scope of influence continued to expand; On the other hand, out of the needs of livelihood and market, intellectuals pay more attention to the preferences of the people in the selection of literary and artistic creation, and their writing techniques are more life-oriented. These made many stories, including the stories of the Three Kingdoms, have new development in the literary creation of the song and Yuan Dynasties. The deified image of Zhuge Liang is naturally different from before in this process, which is most obvious in the Pinghua of the annals of the Three Kingdoms and the Three Kingdoms drama of the yuan Dynasty involving the image of Zhuge Liang.