? The Warring States Policy is a collection of articles that recorded the words and deeds of counselors and military strategists during the Warring States period. This is not a person's job. It brings together the lobbying words and contingency stories of military strategists from the Warring States to the Qin and Han Dynasties. It is neither temporary nor alone.
During the Warring States period, some people specialized in diplomatic strategy, used the skills of vertical and horizontal cooperation, concluded agreements with countries, isolated and attacked enemy countries, and were known as military strategists in history. They attach great importance to the art of speaking. In order to learn and talk about touching skills, they constantly collect information and store it for later use. Sometimes they will draft and practice by themselves. Many chapters of the Warring States Policy were produced in this way. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was compiled into a book by Liu Xiang, and the title was also decided by Liu Xiangding.
Liu Xiang (about 77- 6 years ago) was a famous scholar in Han Dynasty. In addition to Confucian classics and literature, he also made great contributions to the collation of ancient books. When the Han Dynasty became emperor, Liu Xiang was asked to proofread a batch of books, and The Warring States Policy was one of them. The articles collected in this book have been circulated under the titles of national policies, national affairs, short stories and long stories, long books and revised books before him. All he did was collect, sort by country and approximate time, and delete repeated chapters.
? The Warring States Period is an era of drastic changes in the ancient history of China. In terms of social economy, it changed from slavery to feudal landlord system. Politically, the struggle for hegemony from a small country in the Spring and Autumn Period has become the main competition among the seven great countries of Qin, Qi, Chu, Zhao, Wei, Han and Yan. This has prompted monarchs and dignitaries in various countries to pay attention to some people who are not from the Shiqing family but have practical ability in some aspects, forming a prevailing wind of "cultivating scholars".
Inspired by this situation, vagrants with various political views came into being. They traveled around the world to lobby, hoping that their views could be adopted by the politicians and reused. In the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang was divided into 33 volumes according to the twelve strategies of Eastern Zhou, Western Zhou, Qin, Qi, Chu, Zhao, Wei, Han, Yan, Song, Wei and Zhongshan, which was named Warring States Policy. It records the 245-year history from the Spring and Autumn Annals to the Chu and Han Dynasties. Therefore, this book is active in thought, with many intrigues, which does not conform to Confucianism. Therefore, it was rejected by Confucianism and did not spread widely in the world. Later, it gradually became incomplete. For example, in the Warring States Policy compiled by Liu Xiang, Kuai Tong said that Han Xin was independent, which was quoted in Historical Records and Biography of Sima Zhen, and was later lost in the Warring States Policy.
? According to Chongwen general catalogue, * * lost 1 1 article. Ceng Gong, a famous litterateur in the Northern Song Dynasty, asked for books from the private library of scholar-officials and revised them. Because of his fallacy, he made up 33 more articles. However, due to historical reasons, Ceng Gong's The Warring States Policy and Liu Xiang's The Warring States Policy are different in content. Therefore, there are two versions of "The Warring States Policy" in history, with Liu Xiang as the ancient prose and Ceng Gong as the new edition.