entity Updated 2026-08-19 Tags: Book, Military-Thought, Archaeology, Pre-Qin, Warring-States

《孙膑兵法》 / Sun Bin’s Art of War

《孙膑兵法》 / Sun Bin’s Art of War enters the wiki through 《资治通鉴·周纪》16丨孙膑庞涓恩怨纠葛 桂陵之战, where the host notes that the long-lost text was excavated in 1972 from the Yinqueshan Han tombs in Linyi, Shandong. The episode uses the find as a source-critical point: 孙膑 and Sunzi should not be collapsed into one person, and their military texts should not be treated as the same book.

The text’s wiki role is therefore evidentiary as much as military. It supports the episode’s historical reasoning by showing how archaeology can resolve an old identification problem without requiring the episode to reconstruct the full textual history.

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