In 1986 Wang Jian made his second-generation wooden ox--three full-scale models--and took them to central China for trials on the very tracks where Zhuge Liang transported his army's provisions. Foreign academics and the Japanese media took particular note.
一九八六年，王湔又做山第二代木牛流馬，三座放大成原寸的模型，並運到漢中，實地行走在當年諸葛亮運糧的古道上，吸引了外國學者、日本媒體注目。