Yue Chengong, a Huang-Lao scholar from Song, shunned officialdom unlike his famed military kinsman Yue Yi. Fleeing Zhao’s fall to Qin, he settled in Qi, won renown for mastering the Dao De Jing, and was revered as a worthy teacher by local elites.
Sun Wu, or Sun Tzu, (fl. late 6th century BCE), a renowned military strategist of the late Spring and Autumn period, is regarded as the founder of the Chinese “School of Military Thought” and revered by later generations as “Sunzi” (“Master Sun”). His courtesy name was Changqing, and he was a native of the…