Sun Tzu's Art of War has been circulated for more than two thousand years, and its versions appear constantly, but it also changes due to collation, so there are different types. Because of the relationship between version and type, different transmission systems have been formed. Five editions: According to what we have seen so far, Sun Tzu's Art of War mainly has five editions, including Sun Tzu's Art of War on bamboo slips in Yinqueshan Han Tomb, Sun Tzu's Note by Wei Wudi in the Song Dynasty, Sun Tzu's Note by Eleven Scholars in the Song Dynasty, Sun Tzu's Note by Seven Scholars in the Song Dynasty and Sun Tzu's Note by Ten Scholars in the Qing Dynasty. Among the five versions, Sun Tzu's Art of War, a bamboo slip from the Han Tomb in Yinque Mountain, is the earliest. Huang Pumin and Zhao Haijun believe that Han bamboo slips are "the earliest manuscript of Sun Tzu's Art of War discovered so far" in Notes on Sun Tzu's Art of War (Yuelu Bookstore 1996 edition), which is "closer to Sun Wu's manuscript". Wei Wudi's annotation on The Art of War is based on the original version, which is the earliest one. Wei Wudi notes that The Art of War is the source of the Five Classics system, even the source of ancient books handed down from ancient times. Li Ling thinks that compared with other Song versions, Cao's annotated version is quite different from Eleven Annotations, and slightly better than Wu's annotated version. There are two kinds: "Handed down edition and simplified Chinese edition belong to two different teaching systems, so the versions of Sun Tzu's Art of War can be divided into two kinds, one is the simplified Chinese edition and the other is the handed down edition". There are Wei Wudi's Notes on Sun Tzu, seven Wu Jing Shu and eleven Notes on Sun Tzu handed down from ancient times. All handed down from generation to generation are of the same type. Guo Huaruo put forward Ten Notes of Song Edition and Seven Books of Jason Wu's Grandson in the Notes of Sun Zi reprinted in 1984. "Both of them are actually based on Cao Cao's annotation ..." Yang Bing An and Mu Zhi Chao also thought in the Textbook of the Origin and Development of Two Manuscripts of Sun Zi 1986: "I think that since Cao Cao's brief interpretation of Sun Zi, the spread of Sun Zi has always been inseparable from Zhu Cao's influence". Han bamboo slips are another type. Its importance lies in that Liu Xiang and Hong Ren made a comprehensive comparison of many ancient manuscripts of Sun Zi before, and selected them in many ways, choosing the good ones and following them, which became the handed down version of the book. Xu Yong pointed out in "Several Problems in the Current Study of Sun Zi" that the simplified version of Han Dynasty "may be closer to the original version of Sun Wu and his later studies; Only the title has no title; The order of some titles is different from that of handed down books; It is similar to the quotations in Tongdian, Beitang Shuchao and Taiping Yulan, but it is obviously different from the Eleven Notes. Therefore, it is of great value to collate the handed down version of Sun Tzu's Art of War. These two types involve the collation and revision of military science. Since then, the Art of War has remained basically stable. There are three main systems: one is the "Han Simplified Edition" system. Xu Yong proposed in Some Problems in the Current Study of Sunzi that the bamboo slips of Sunzi unearthed in Shangsunjiazhai, Datong County, Qinghai Province should also be included in the Han bamboo slips system. The second is the Jason Wu system. Niu et al. thought in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "From the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, all the published Seven Books of the Five Classics, Seven Notes of the Five Classics and Sun Tzu's Single Notes were followed by Thirteen Books of Sun Tzu, forming the circulation system of the Five Classics. "The third is the ten-note system of Sun Tzu's Art of War. Eleven Annotations to Sun Tzu in the Southern Song Dynasty, published by Sun Xingyan School in the Qing Dynasty, "replaced the position of the Five Classics" system. After liberation, most researchers of Sunzi took Ten Notes of Sunzi as the base book and formed the system of Ten Notes of Sunzi. The Five Classics system is a military textbook, focusing on practicality, while the Ten Records of Sun Tzu system is a reader for scholars, focusing on textual research and understanding. Therefore, these two systems are formed to meet the needs of different fields. The system of Han bamboo slips meets the needs of restoring Sun Tzu's Art of War. After the Han bamboo slips were unearthed, Sun Tzu's Art of War handed down from ancient times was collated, forming a new collation of Sun Tzu's Art of War, thus forming a system represented by Sun Tzu's collation. However, this system has been challenged at present, because it was too superstitious at first, and now some people tend to deny Han bamboo slips. The same problem of these two tendencies lies in insisting on treating Sun Tzu's Art of War from the perspective of handed down books.
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