{"id":9809,"date":"2019-11-21T15:13:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T15:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=9809"},"modified":"2019-11-21T16:16:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T16:16:42","slug":"san-shi-liu-ji-thirty-six-stratagems-wu-zhong-sheng-you-create-something-from-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/san-shi-liu-ji-thirty-six-stratagems-wu-zhong-sheng-you-create-something-from-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u4e09\u5341\u516d\u8ba1 Thirty-Six Stratagems: \u65e0\u4e2d\u751f\u6709 Create something from nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !im<em><\/em>portant; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&#8221;>Chapter 2: Enemy Dealing Stratagems \u654c\u6218\u8ba1<br \/>  <\/span>  <\/p><div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: font-weight: letter-spacing: line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: text-transform: none; white-space: widows: word-spacing: -webkit-text-stroke-width: background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u65e0\u4e2d\u751f\u6709 w&uacute;zh\u014dngsh\u0113ngy\u01d2u<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(0, 98, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Create something from nothing<\/strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u539f\u6587\uff1a<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(0, 98, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Content:<\/strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u8bf3\u4e5f\uff0c\u975e\u8bf3\u4e5f\uff0c\u5b9e\u5176\u6240\u8bf3\u4e5f\u3002\u5c11\u9634\uff0c\u592a\u9634\uff0c\u592a\u9633\u3002<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(0, 98, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A plain lie. Make somebody believe there was something when there is in fact nothing.You use the same feint twice. Having reacted to the first and often the second feint as well, the enemy will be hesitant to react to a third feint. Therefore the third feint is the actual attack catching your enemy with his guard down.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">During the<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">An Lushan (\u5b89\u7984\u5c71 \u0101n L&ugrave;sh\u0101n)<\/strong>&nbsp;rebellion in 756 AD the Tang general<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Zhang Xun (\u5f20\u5de1 Zh\u0101ng X&uacute;n)<\/strong>&nbsp;was under siege by the forces of general Linghu Chao. Outnumbered twenty to one, the defending Tang forces soon ran out of arrows. To remedy this general Zhang ordered his men to make<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">straw dummies (\u7a3b\u8349\u4eba d&agrave;oc\u01ceor&eacute;n)<\/strong>&nbsp;and to dress them in black uniforms. That night the dummies were lowered over the city walls by ropes, accompanied to the beat of<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">war drums (\u6218\u9f13 zh&agrave;ng\u01d4)<\/strong>. General Linghu thought the enemy was launching a surprise night offensive and ordered his archers to shower the figures descending the walls with arrows. o<em><\/em>nce the dummies wher riddled with arrows the Tang soldiers pulled them back up the walls and thus restored their supply of arrows. The next night the Tang again lowered the dummies but General Linghu ordered his men to<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ignore (\u4e0d\u4e88\u7406\u4f1a b&ugrave; y\u01d4 l\u01d0hu&igrave;)<\/strong>&nbsp;them believing it was the same trick to get more arrows. When general Zhang saw that no one was firing at the straw dummies, he ordered that five hundred of his best<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">troops (\u90e8\u961f b&ugrave;du&igrave;)<\/strong>&nbsp;be lowered instead. They made a lightning<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">raid (\u7a81\u88ad t\u016bx&iacute;\uff09<\/strong>&nbsp;on the encamped soldiers who were caught completely by surprise. The siege was lifted and general Linghu&#8217;s army fled the field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">One method of using this stratagem is to create an illusion of something&#8217;s existence, while it does not exist. Another method is to create an illusion that something does not exist, while it does.<\/p>\n<p>  <span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !im<em><\/em>portant; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&#8221;><br type=\"_moz\" \/>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-4278489162\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;During the&nbsp; An Lushan (\u5b89\u7984\u5c71 \u0101n L&ugrave;sh\u0101n)&nbsp;rebellion in 756 AD the Tang general&nbsp; Zhang Xun (\u5f20\u5de1 Zh\u0101ng X&uacute;n)&nbsp;was under siege by the forces of general Linghu Chao. Outnumbered twenty to one, the defending Tang forces soon ran out of arrows. To remedy this general Zhang ordered his men to make&nbsp; straw dummies (\u7a3b\u8349\u4eba d&agrave;oc\u01ceor&eacute;n)&nbsp;and to dress them in black uniforms. That night the dummies were lowered over the city walls by ropes, accompanied to the beat of&nbsp; war drums (\u6218\u9f13 zh&agrave;ng\u01d4). General Linghu thought the enemy was launching a surprise night offensive and ordered his archers to shower the figures descending the walls with arrows. once the dummies wher riddled with arrows the Tang soldiers pulled them back up the walls and thus restored their supply of arrows. The next night the Tang again lowered the dummies but General Linghu ordered his men to&nbsp; ignore (\u4e0d\u4e88\u7406\u4f1a b&ugrave; y\u01d4 l\u01d0hu&igrave;)&nbsp;them believing it was the same trick to get more arrows. When general Zhang saw that no one was firing at the straw dummies, he ordered that five hundred of his best&nbsp; troops (\u90e8\u961f b&ugrave;du&igrave;)&nbsp;be lowered instead. They made a lightning&nbsp; raid (\u7a81\u88ad t\u016bx&iacute;\uff09&nbsp;on the encamped soldiers who were caught completely by surprise. The siege was lifted and general Linghu&#8217;s army fled the field.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2848,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-historical-stories","category-chinese-literature"],"views":482,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}