鬼谷子 / Guiguzi
鬼谷子 / Guiguzi appears in 《资治通鉴·周纪》16丨孙膑庞涓恩怨纠葛 桂陵之战 as the teacher under whom 孙膑 and 庞涓 study military methods. The source does not develop a broad biography; it uses Guiguzi to explain the shared training background that makes Pang Juan’s later fear and betrayal more pointed.
The page is deliberately source-scoped. In this wiki branch, Guiguzi matters because his teaching setting links two divergent outcomes: Pang Juan converts talent anxiety into court violence, while Sun Bin later converts the same strategic learning into resource reallocation and indirect military pressure.
《资治通鉴·周纪》29丨苏秦励志爽文：知识改变命运 adds another student pair: 苏秦 and 张仪. The episode uses Guiguzi differently here. Su Qin’s initial post-study failure weakens a simple “名师出高徒” story and supports 失败后的自学翻身: the later breakthrough comes after Su Qin returns home humiliated and studies again.
《资治通鉴·周纪》30丨苏秦的“开挂”人生 links Guiguzi to technique rather than only teacher lineage. The episode notes that the received 鬼谷子 text contains “揣” and “摩” chapters, using that vocabulary to explain 苏秦’s 揣摩 after deep reading 《阴符》.
《资治通鉴·周纪》31丨合纵连横 围殴秦 keeps Guiguzi in the background by making Su Qin and 张仪 classmates whose shared training does not make them allies. The episode uses that relationship to stage 合纵 and 连横 as rival but intertwined professional paths.
《资治通鉴·周纪》56丨 瞧瞧两千多年前啥是大丈夫 cites Guiguzi through 扬雄’s 《法言》 critique. The passage, as presented by the episode, says Zhang Yi and Su Qin learned from Guiguzi and used hezong/lianheng arts, but Yang Xiong denies that effectiveness or temporary order makes those arts morally acceptable.
Hanji 1019 cites the Guiguzi line “谋之于阴，成之于阳” while interpreting 刘宠’s death. Here Guiguzi is not a student-lineage marker; the episode uses the text to argue that public action depends on hidden planning and on protecting oneself from the backlash of “势.”
Connections
- 孙膑 and 庞涓 - students named by the earlier source.
- 苏秦 and 张仪 - student pair added by Zhouji 29.
- 《阴符》 and 揣摩 - Zhouji 30 text-and-technique branch.
- 合纵 and 连横 - Zhouji 31 rival paths followed by the student pair.
- 扬雄, 《法言》, and 动机导向的才干评价 - Zhouji 56 moral critique of Guiguzi-linked persuader arts.
- 刘宠, 袁术, and 行势情战略评估 - Hanji 1019 use of Guiguzi language for hidden planning and dangerous momentum.
- 战国时期 - historical setting for the strategist tradition in the episode.
- Tian Ji Horse Racing / 田忌赛马 and Encircling Wei to Rescue Zhao / 围魏救赵 - later Sun Bin strategy branch.
- 魏国 and 齐国 - states in which the students’ rivalry becomes political.
- 失败后的自学翻身 - Zhouji 29 correction to the simple teacher-success myth.