creating something out of nothing(wú zhōng shēng yǒu)

creating something out of nothing

There is something out of nothing: the seventh one in the thirty six stratagems, the original is: "lie, not lie, but lie.". Shaoyin, Taiyin, the sun Originally, it didn't, but it insisted that it did. This is a fabrication. This plan comes from chapter 40 of Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher (some are also called strategists), "everything in the world is born of being, and being is born of nothing.". Laozi revealed the law of interdependence and mutual change between the existence and non existence of all things. Wei Liaozi, an ancient Chinese militarist, applied Lao Tzu's dialectical thought to military affairs to further analyze the relationship between nothingness and reality.

Related idioms

Taoism believes that the material in nature comes from the invisible space; it says that things that do not exist are real things. All things are born of nothing. According to Laozi, all things in the world are born in existence, and others in nothingness Wang Bi's note: "where there is a beginning, there is nothing.". If you have all your desires, you will have nothing. " (2) yuan Wumingshi's "Dian Jiang lip" divertimento: "the Tao originally has no wonderful reason of words and deeds. It can only be known at home if it can capture the essence of heaven and earth. If you want to get into the fire, don't be too late. " 2. It means fabrication out of thin air. (1) in the fourth chapter of the outlaws of the Marsh: "you are in the back hall of magistrate Cai Jiu, and you can tell the truth and do harm to others, and encourage him out of nothing." (2) Volume 38 of the book "the first time to make a case is amazing": "Zixi is never done by human beings. Most of all, it's out of thin air, which is quite novel. " (3) in Liang Shaoren's essays on two kinds of autumn rain: a letter to the circle of children: "there is a good thing in it It's a joke to make out of nothing. " (4) Act 1 of Cao Yu's Peking Man: "don't make something out of nothing, take Miss Su and be happy." (5) how did Liang Huarong back to the court in Chapter 34 of Water Margin by Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty? In fact, Liu Gao was born out of nothing. He was forced to take revenge on himself. Hua Rong had a family and a country, so he had to stay here. There is no doubt about it

Thirty six strategies

brief introduction

Something out of nothing: the seventh one in the thirty six stratagems, which originally didn't exist, insists that it does. This is a fabrication. "Thirty six strategies", or "thirty six strategies", refers to the Thirty-six Strategies of Military Science in ancient China, which originated from the southern and Northern Dynasties and was written in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a Book of war based on the excellent military thought and rich struggle experience in ancient China. It is one of the long cultural heritages of the Chinese nation.

original text

Lie also, not lie also, actually its use also. Shaoyin, Taiyin and Taiyang.

notes

① Take advantage of, not take advantage of, actually take advantage of: take advantage of, cheat, take advantage of. Reality, reality, reality. To deceive the other party with the false image is not to deceive the other party to the end, but to let the other party take the false image as the real one. (2) Shaoyin, Taiyin and Taiyang: the "Yin" refers to the false image and the "Yang" refers to the true image. Cover up the true image with the false image big and small.

explain

To deceive the enemy with supposition is not to deceive completely, but to skillfully change from falsehood to truth, from falsehood to reality, to cover up the truth with various kinds of suppositions, to create the illusion of the enemy and to strike the enemy by surprise. This is the reason that Shaoyin, Taiyin and the sun transform into each other in the book of changes.

Notes

According to the ancients, if there is nothing to show, you can lie. You can't feel it for a long time, so you can never feel it. For example, Linghu Chao surrounded yongqiu, Zhang Xun and jiesong were more than a thousand people. They put themselves in the dark and let the city down at night. The Chaobing soldiers fought to shoot them and got hundreds of thousands of arrows. After that, they let people down in the night, and the Chaobing soldiers laughed and didn't have any equipment. They used five hundred dead men to chop down the Chaoying camp, burn the barracks, and chase them for more than ten li (New Tang Dynasty book, 1922, biography of Zhang Xun, strategic research, Tang Dynasty).

Name source

This plan comes from chapter 40 of Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher (some are also called strategists), "everything in the world is born of being, and being is born of nothing.". Laozi revealed the law of interdependence and mutual change between the existence and non existence of all things. Wei Liaozi, an ancient Chinese militarist, applied Lao Tzu's dialectical thought to military affairs to further analyze the relationship between nothingness and reality. "Weiliaozi · Zhanquan" says: "the power of war depends on the extreme of the Tao. If there is one, there will be none. If there is one, you can trust it?" He advocates confusing the enemy with the illusion of "nothingness", taking advantage of the fact that the enemy is used to "nothingness", turning nothingness into existence, taking emptiness as reality, and attacking the enemy by surprise. It can be seen that the characteristic of this plan is to create a kind of illusion, deliberately let the enemy see through and lose their vigilance, and then turn nothing into something, turn the false into true, and turn the false into the real; when the enemy really attacks the enemy, he still thinks it's a false enemy and does not take precautions, so that he can win the war.

Related allusions

True or false, Zhang Xingshi attacked Qianxi in 465, the first year of emperor Taishi of song and Ming Dynasties. Liu or killed his brother Liu ziye and became emperor himself. The change of power caused chaos. In the second year of Taishi period, Liu Zixun became emperor in Xunyang (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province), and marched into Fanchang and Tongling to reach Jiankang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), Liu Yi's capital. Liu may dispatch his main forces to fight against the enemy. Liu Zixun sent sun Chongwen to guard Zhejiao (now southwest of Fanchang County, Anhui Province) and Liu Hu to guard quewei (now in Tongling). Liu Ge sent Zhang Xingshi, the general of Longxiang, to lead the water army down the south of the Yangtze River and captured two towns in Hukou at one stroke. Later, they were blocked in quewei island. Under the situation of confrontation between the two armies, Zhang Xingshi advocated using a capable army to occupy the main points of the upper reaches, cut off the front and back contact of Liu Zixun's army, in order to find opportunities and win by surprise. Qianxi is located in the upper reaches of the Qianjiang River. The terrain is dangerous. The river is turbulent and full of vortices. The ships coming and going here have to berth. It is the throat of Liu Zixun's army. Therefore, Zhang Xingshi decided to break through from here. Liu Hu, Qianxi's garrison, was not weak, so Zhang Xingshi decided to outwit him. He sent a few boats to drive upstream quickly. Qian Xi's garrison found out that they were about to take action, but Zhang Xingshi's boat immediately turned around and went back. For several days in a row, every day so, Qian Xi garrison also used to. One night, Zhang Xingshi led a large number of warships and sailed forward. Liu Hu thought at first that they were bluffing again and ignored them. Later, when he heard that they were really a large number of warships, he sent some of them to monitor Zhang Xingye's movements. The next evening, Zhang Xingshi stopped at jingjiangpu and Liu Hu's boat stopped on the other side. In the evening, Zhang Xingshi led all the warships to enter Qianxi quickly. The ships Liu Hu sent to watch couldn't understand the enemy's purpose and the general's intention. He watched all Zhang Xingshi's warships enter Qianxi. When Liu Hu understood and sent the fleet to attack again, Zhang Xingshi was ready to defend. Liu Hu's ships rushed into the river vortex, crowded, slow, and lost coordination with the land infantry, and finally defeated. Li guangbu's suspicions: General Li Guangfei took more than 100 cavalry to act alone. On the way, he saw thousands of Hun cavalry. When the Huns saw that Li Guang and others had only more than 100 cavalry, they thought it was a trick to lure them. They were very surprised, so they galloped to the mountains to set up their positions. Li Guang's subordinates were unprepared. They were scared when they met enemies dozens of times more than themselves and wanted to run back. Li Guang said: "we have left our troops for tens of miles. If we run away like this now, the Huns will surely chase us and kill us. If we stay here, the Huns will think that we are the bait of the army and dare not attack. " So he ordered all the cavalry to "march forward!" and then he went down to a place two li away from the Xiongnu position and stopped. Li Guang also ordered: "all the people should take off their saddles and rest in place." His cavalry asked anxiously, "there are many enemies, and they are very close to each other. What should we do if something happens?" Li Guang replied, "those Huns expected us to go back and then pursue them. Now we have to take off our saddles and say we won't go." Sure enough, the Hun cavalry did not dare to attack. At this time, Hu side out of a white horse general, trying to guard his soldiers, Li Guangli immediately mounted, and more than a dozen cavalry. After that, he went back to his original place, untied the saddle and ordered the soldiers to lie down on their horses. When it was almost dark, Hu Bing was still very surprised and did not dare to attack. In the middle of the night, the Huns were afraid that the ambush troops would attack them at night, so they all withdrew. The next morning, Li Guang led more than 100 people back to the army safely. Zhao Gao pointed out that deer was a horse. Qin Shihuang unfortunately died during his inspection tour. He was surrounded by his youngest son Hu Hai. Prince Fusu was on the northern border with Mengtian to defend against the invasion of northern Xiongnu, but he failed to accept the imperial edict in time. Li Si, the prime minister, and Zhao Gao, the eunuch, conspired to forge two imperial edicts. One is to pass the throne to his second son Hu Hai, the other is to give Fu Su and Meng Tian death. Later, Fu Su and Meng Tian committed suicide after accepting the false imperial edict. Hu Hai was originally a weak, incompetent and fatuous man, and because he was young and inexperienced, he was completely controlled by Zhao Gao. Zhao Gao is more and more powerful, but he is also afraid of the power of Lisi. In the second year of Qin II, he framed the Liston bandit. Hu Hai believed it, so he killed Li Si and killed the nine ethnic groups. This is the crime of "making something out of nothing", but Qin II Hu Hai was grateful to Zhao Gao: "if I didn't have you, I would have been killed by Lisi!" Zhao Gao saw that Hu Hai was so stupid, and he relied more on power than on purpose. After Lisi's death, Zhao Gaosheng became the prime minister, more and more dominating the world, taking charge of state affairs, killing dissidents and committing all kinds of crimes. Qin II was also happy not to ask about the government, all day long licentious. Zhao Gao was still not satisfied with his officials, for fear that because of his humble background, his officials would not listen to him and would usurp the throne. So I came up with a plan

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