Encountering the Military Sage: The Discovery and Decipherment Mystery of the "Art of War" in the Yin Yun Mountain Han Tomb

Author: Yue Nan
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: A Mystery of Chinese Cultural History Series. On Mount Yinque, an ancient tomb over two thousand years old was accidentally discovered, and the classic military text The Art of War and the long-lost original of Sun Bin's Art of War, which had been submerged for millennia, emerged into the world, resolving a century-old academic debate. In the spring of 1972, on Mount Yinque in Linyi City, Shandong Province, a laborer known as "Liu" suddenly unearthed an ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty, and a batch of bamboo slips came to light. The discovery of this treasure unveiled the beginning of the "revival of archaeology" since the founding of New China, especially the simultaneous excavation of the classic military text The Art of War and the long-lost original of Sun Bin's Art of War, which had been missing for over a thousand years, abruptly resolved a century-long academic puzzle and opened a new era for the study of these two military texts. This book narrates, in a literary style of (), the entire process of the discovery, excavation, and the study, interpretation, and decipherment of the bamboo slips unearthed from the Yinque Mountain Han tomb by scholars.