For the older generation, particularly men, the experience of listening to Three Kingdoms stories at Grandpa's knee is fairly universal. Little boys have always been especially fascinated by Zhuge Liang's "wooden ox," that amazing invention which carried the Shu army provisions in the campaign against Wei. "What actually was the wooden ox?"
其實老一輩中國人，尤其是男性，小時候幾乎都有坐在阿公身邊聽三國故事的經驗；孔明最後為攻打魏國，籌運糧草而發明的奇器「木牛流馬」，更曾讓許多的小男孩魂縈夢繫﹘﹘「木牛流馬究竟是什麼東西？