武经七书

《武经七书》是中华地区古代七本重要的军事法规及著作，其中包括《孙子兵法》。这些典籍在公元11世纪开始被冠以此名，并从宋代开始被列入大多数军事百科全书中。历代官员必须阅读《武经七书》的部分或全部，方可获得升迁。多个世纪以来，学者们的各样注释及分析生成了多个选集。

名单

《孙子兵法》 ，春秋末期的齐国人，孙武著。全书为十三篇。始计第一、作战第二、谋攻第三、军形第四、兵势第五、虚实第六、军争第七、九变第八、行军第九、地形第十、九地第十一、火攻第十二、用间第十三。

《吴子兵法》 ，战国时卫国人吴起所作。分上下两卷，每卷三篇，共六篇。与《孙子》一起并称“孙吴兵法”。《吴子》一书虽仅五千字左右，但内容十分丰富，是继《孙子》以后又一部具有重大理论价值的兵学论著。

《六韬》 ，周朝人，旧题姜尚著，分《文韬》、《武韬》、《龙韬》、《虎韬》、《豹韬》、《犬韬》，共六卷。

《三略》 ，秦朝末年人，旧题黄石公撰。此书侧重于从政治策略上阐明治国用兵的道理，不同于其他兵书。它是一部糅合了诸子各家的某些思想，专论战略的兵书。

《司马法》，春秋时代后期齐国的将军、田穰苴所作。共155篇。《司马法》最早见于《汉书·艺文志》，称《军礼司马法》。汉朝以后，该书多有散佚，至唐朝编《隋书·经籍志》时录为3卷5篇，列入子部兵家类，称为《司马法》，即今本《司马法》3卷5篇的原型，其中既涉及了春秋时的制度，亦涉及了战国时的制度。

《尉缭子》， 战国时代魏国人，尉缭所作。书中杂家类著录《尉缭》29篇，兵形势家类著录《尉缭》31篇。《尉缭子》的军事思想具有战国时代的特色，宋元丰年间（1078年—1085年），被定为《武经七书》之一，为武学科举必读的兵学教材。

《唐太宗李卫公问对》，唐朝人，旧题李靖所撰。该书体裁是传统的问答式，全书共有98次问答。由于新旧唐书都没有此书的记载，所以许多人怀疑此书是伪作。

The Seven Military Classics (traditional Chinese: 武經七書; simplified Chinese: 武经七书; pinyin: Wǔjīngqīshū; Wade–Giles: Wu ching ch'i shu) were seven important military texts of ancient China, which also included Sun-tzu's The Art of War. The texts were canonized under this name during the 11th century AD, and from the time of the Song dynasty, were included in most military leishu. Emperor Shenzong, the sixth emperor of the Song dynasty, determined which texts would be included in this anthology in 1080. For imperial officers, either some or all of the works were required reading to merit promotion, like the requirement for all bureaucrats to learn and know the work of Confucius. The Art of War was translated into Tangut with commentary.

List

According to Ralph D. Sawyer and Mei-chün Sawyer, who created one of the latest translations, the Seven Military Classics include the following texts:

Jiang Ziya (Taigong)'s Six Secret Teachings

The Methods of the Sima (also known as Sima Rangju Art of War)

Sun Tzu's The Art of War

Wu Qi's Wuzi

Wei Liaozi

Three Strategies of Huang Shigong

Questions and Replies between Tang Taizong and Li Weigong

There are no other known variations of the Seven Military Classics anthology with alternating members but the constituent works themselves have had many multiple versions, especially The Art of War, which has had at least several dozen different translations to English in the 20th century alone.

Despite prominence of military texts in the Yi Zhou shu, none of the anthology chapters were regarded as classics.

Influence

There were many anthologies with different notations and analyses by scholars throughout the centuries leading up to the present versions in Western publishing. The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty commented on the seven military classics, stating, "I have read all of the seven books, among them there are some materials that are not necessarily right and there are superstitious stuff can be used by bad people."

Members of the Chinese Communist Party also studied the texts during the Chinese Civil War as well as many European and American military minds.

The Art of War was studied by warring Japanese clans during internal civil wars such as the Genpei War, the Sengoku Jidai, and the Boshin War in Japan.

Chinese military works like Su Shu, San Liu, Six Secret Teachings and Art of War were translated into Manchu. Manchus used Manchu translations of the Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms to learn military strategy.