Ancient China · Strategist and Writer

Taigong 太公

Early Western Zhou

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Taigong was a Strategist and Writer.

Life and dates

Attested activity

太公兵法
Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 55, passage 36

Works and attributed material

Art of War of Taigong 太公兵法
Relation Attributed author
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 55, passage 36

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 55, passage 36

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 55House of Marquis of Liu · 2 passages

旦日視其書，乃太公兵法也。 At daybreak Liang examined the book and found it to be the Art of War of Taigong.

良數以太公兵法說沛公，沛公善之，常用其策。 Liang repeatedly expounded the Art of War of Taigong to the Duke of Pei, who took to it at once and regularly adopted his stratagems.