Lantern fairs brighten Chinese heritage

The temple is China's only shrine where a subordinate is enshrined with his emperor.

Marquis Wu, or Zhuge Liang (181-234), was a legendary premier and strategist of the Shu Kingdom (221-263) during the Three Kingdoms period.

In Zhuge's youth, the royalty of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) was weak and warlords were entangled in fighting, which led to the country being divided into three kingdoms — Wei, Shu and Wu.

Zhuge, the personification of wisdom and loyalty, helped Liu Bei (161-223), a distant but ambitious relative of the royal family, to establish the Shu Kingdom.

Before Liu's death, he said that if his son proved to be a hopeless and weak-minded person, Zhuge could become the emperor. Liu's son proved to be a poor emperor, but Zhuge offered help instead of dethroning him and eventually died of overwork.

At the time of year, lanterns light up the sky at the Jinsha Site Museum in the western suburbs of Chengdu.