From Sun Wu's The Art of War in the Spring and Autumn Period, the original excerpt:
Tao makes people consistent with the world, can die with it, can live with it, and is not afraid of difficulties and dangers. Heaven, yin and yang, cold and heat, time system. People living on land are high and low, far and near, dangerous and easy, wide and narrow, dead and alive. General, wisdom, faith, benevolence, courage and strictness. Legalism, music system, official way, main use. We should listen to these five things. Those who know will win, and those who don't know will be invincible.
Translation:
Politics is to make people agree with the wishes of the monarch and let them die for the monarch in wartime. Weather refers to the changes of day and night, sunny and rainy, hot and cold, and seasonal climate. Terrain refers to the conditions of high mountains and depressions, short distance, flat and narrow pass, convenient advance and retreat, etc.
A general is a commander's intelligence, honesty, kindness, courage, strictness and other qualities. System is the formulation and management of military system, military law and military materials. All these five aspects, the generals need to know.
Extended data
Creative background:
Sun Wu was active from the end of 6th century BC to the beginning of 5th century BC, from Qi State to Wu State, and was recommended by the senior minister of Wu State (Wu Zixu). He presented thirteen articles of Sun Tzu's Art of War to He Lv, the king of Wu, and was reused as a general. This article is one of them, talking about temple calculation, that is, before sending troops to the temple, comparing the situation of the enemy and ourselves, estimating the possibility of winning or losing the war and making a battle plan.
Appreciate:
The chapter Ji mainly discusses the extreme importance of studying and planning war from a strategic perspective, and discusses the basic conditions that determine the outcome of the war. And put forward some tactics of fighting.
Among them, "general" means that generals must have five basic qualities: intelligence, faithfulness, benevolence, courage and strictness, which are embodied in their five basic qualities: intelligence, faithfulness, benevolence, courage and strictness, which are embodied in their resourcefulness, faithfulness in rewards and punishments, love for soldiers, courage and determination, and strict military discipline.
Sun Tzu believes that these are the five basic conditions for becoming a general, and a general who leads troops to fight must have a comprehensive and profound understanding of them in order to be invincible, which embodies a far-sighted military strategic vision and mature political wisdom.
About the author:
Sun Wu (about 545 BC-about 470 BC) was born in Le 'an (now northern Shandong Province) at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. China, a famous strategist and politician in the Spring and Autumn Period, was honored as a soldier sage or grandson (Sun Wuzi), also known as "the most holy strategist", and was known as "the teacher of a hundred schools of thought" and "the originator of eastern military science".
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