Isn t The Art of War still complete?

According to historical records, before the Western Han Dynasty, it was only found in the "Historical Records: The Biography of Sun Tzu Wu Qilie", called "Thirteen Articles", which coincides with the number of articles circulating today. As for the statement that "Wu Sun Tzu's Art of War 82 Chapters, Figure 9 Volumes" in the Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles, the study believes that there are two possibilities: one is the elaboration, interpretation and play of the "Art of War" by Sun Tzu's students and descendants; Another possibility is that according to the font size, 13 are bamboo slips, and 82 are silk scripts.

In the industry, there is the president of the Ancient Military Science Research Association in Xi'an, and there is an original book of "Eighty-two Articles of Sun Wu's Art of War". He believes that the 13 chapters of the Art of War, which are now recognized, are only a condensed version of the 82 chapters of the book. He said that the first of the "13 articles", "Soldiers, the Tricks of the Country", devotes 6 articles to explaining the problem of "Tao" in the "82 Articles"; In the "Operations" section of the "13 Articles," there are only a few simple sentences about "the speed of the soldiers," while the "82 Articles" devote 9 pages to summing up 52 reasons for the failure of the battle and 32 reasons for the victory of the battle.

Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the eighty-two articles may be explanatory works. In the historical records of the pre-Qin period, there is no record of the eighty-two articles. However, in the "Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles", there is a saying that "Wu Sun Tzu's Art of War" has eighty-two articles, and the picture is nine volumes'. ”

In the Han Tomb of Yinque Mountain in Shandong, 15 military books have been sorted out instead of 13. There are other articles related to the art of war that have not been sorted out. He has always believed that there should be more than 13 articles in The Art of War.

The Han Tomb of Yinque Mountain in Linyi, Shandong Province has unearthed bamboo slips "The Art of War" and "The Art of War of Sun Bin", as well as some military texts and some military books. The 82 articles of Sun Wu's Art of War are in the hands of Zhang Jingxuan, a native of Xi'an, and some of the content is consistent with the Han Jian's military writings, and the collector has published 18 of them, and the others are still being sorted out. The content is disputed.

The Eighty-two Articles of the Art of War of Sun Wu are fake, forged by modern people. The National Academy of Military Sciences has long identified it as fake, and advanced identification technologies such as carbon identification have also shown that the "Eighty-two Articles of Sun Wu's Art of War" was written no earlier than 1970 at the earliest.

Among the more than a dozen articles of the so-called "82 Articles of the Art of War of Sun Wu" that have been published, there are many errors and fatal wounds, which even the forgers themselves cannot explain, for example, there are many poetic idioms and tactics that only exist in later generations and cases that happened later.

From the point of view of connotation, the quality of the slow liquid fabrication is also relatively low, and the burning completely deviates from the quality of the original disturbance of Sun Tzu's Art of War. "The Art of War" (also known as "The Art of War", also known as "The Art of War", which corresponds to the Art of War made by Sun Bin) should have been a very connotative work, so that without detailed research, it may not be possible to thoroughly understand the deep meaning of it, so that people feel that it is "ordinary". However, the inferior counterfeiting technology of "82 Chapters of the Art of War of Sun Wu" and the deliberate patchwork of the text will make people quickly understand the meaning of "author (forger)", but they will not gain anything other than to learn some cases of tactics (which are outdated because they are very limited).

"The Art of War" is also known as "The Art of War" and "Sun Tzu". The most famous military book in ancient China, it is listed as the first of the "Seven Books of Wujing". According to the "Book of Sui and the Book of Books", it was written by "Wu General Sun Wu".

The Art of War is recognized as the oldest surviving work of military theory in the world, written at the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

It inherits and develops the war experience and military theories of its predecessors, reveals a number of objective laws of war, has simple materialism and dialectical thinking, and is known as the "classic of war" and the "originator of military science," and occupies a prominent position in the world's military history.

Book Concept

The book studies war as a major event that has a bearing on the lives and deaths of the military and the survival of the country, and calls for a cautious attitude toward war and to be prepared. The book focuses on the basic factors that determine the victory or defeat of a war, and believes that a general is "an auxiliary to the country" and that a good general must possess the five conditions of "wisdom, trustworthiness, benevolence, courage, and strictness."

In terms of the ideology of administering the army, it advocates "ordering them to be written and using force in unison." The captives were asked to "be good and raise them". The famous saying in "The Art of War" that "knowing one's opponent and knowing oneself will not be defeated in a hundred battles" reveals the law of correctly guiding warfare, which is still a scientific truth to this day.

The book's expositions on operational principles, operational forms, and operational guiding principles are all based on the idea of "knowing one's opponent and knowing oneself and not being defeated in a hundred battles."