The origin of the name of the Warring States Policy, and who wrote the Warring States Policy

The original names of "National Policy", "State Affairs", "Short and Long", "Things Language", "Long Book", "Repair Book" and so on. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, when Liu Xiang was collating group books, he found six kinds of manuscripts that recorded Zonghengjia in the royal collection, but the content was chaotic and the text was incomplete. So Liu Xiang compiled the "Warring States Policy" according to the country.

Because most of the records in his book are the political propositions and diplomatic strategies of the country that the Zonghengjia supplemented during the Warring States Period, Liu Xiang named the book "Warring States Policy".

Dear, "Warring States Policy" is a historical proclamation in ancient China, not written by one person independently, but completed by multiple authors in cooperation with Shi Feng. "Warring States Policy" records the political, military, diplomatic, cultural and other aspects of China's old friends during the Warring States Period. According to historical records, the authors of "Warring States Policy" include Wu Qi, Sun Wu, Sun Bin, Zhang Yi, Su Qin and other famous politicians, military strategists and diplomats during the Warring States Period.

However, it is difficult to determine the specific authorship and contribution, because the historical "Warring States Policy" has been sorted out and made many times. The extant version of the "Warring States Policy" has been compiled by later generations, including historical biography, political discourse, and strategic tactics of the Warring States period.

The original author of the country-specific history book compiled by Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty in "Warring States Policy" is unknown, and it is generally believed that it is not the work of one person. Most of the materials are dated to the Warring States period, including the writings of the strategists and the records of historical sources. The original title of the book is uncertain, and the book was not written for a while, probably after the unification of Qin.

After Liu Xiang sorted it out, he deleted the obviously absurd content, rearranged the style according to the country, and named it "Warring States Policy".

The Warring States Policy has a total of 33 volumes, divided into "Eastern Zhou", "Western Zhou", "Qin", "Chu", "Qi", "Zhao", "Wei", "Han", "Yan", "Song", "Wei", "Zhongshan", and the "policy" of the twelve kingdoms. It mainly describes the political propositions and strategies of the Zonghengjia (lobbyists) in the Warring States Period during the 245 years from Zhibo's destruction of the Fan clan in 490 BC to the defeat of Qin Shi Huang in 221 BC, or it records the activities and rhetoric of the Zonghengjia in lobbying various countries during the Warring States Period and the story of the struggle between power and wisdom, showing the historical characteristics and social features of the Warring States Period, and is an important classic for the study of the history of the Warring States Period.

The "Warring States Policy" seen today is far from the version of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and many chapters in it are more fictional literary stories than history.