SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

Wu

  • Han Feizi – Chapter 51

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    This Han Feizi ‑ Chapter 51 (Loyalty and Filial Piety) challenges traditional sage‑king narratives. It stresses unchanging hierarchical order, prioritizing law over reputed worth, and dismisses empty diplomatic vertical‑horizontal alliance theories.

  • Han Feizi – Chapter 49

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    This Han Feizi ‑ Chapter 49 (Five Vermin) argues governance must adapt to changing eras. It denounces five harmful social groups sapping state strength, advocating strict law‑reward‑punishment and prioritizing farming‑warfare over empty moral rhetoric.

  • Wu Zixu’s Strategy to Exhaust Chu: Wear out the rested enemy to seize victory

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    This article explains Sun Tzu’s tactic of exhausting rested foes via Wu Zixu’s plan against Chu. Wu split troops for rotating border raids to tire Chu’s army. Three parallel historical cases further illustrate this harassment strategy to seize battlefield initiative cheaply.

  • Do Not Rely on the Old Ways: The Fable of Waiting by the Stump [Han Feizi]

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    In ancient times, the human population was small while birds and beasts were numerous. People could not withstand the harm inflicted by wild animals, insects, and snakes.

  • Records of the Three Kingdoms – Sanguo Zhi

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    A historical text compiled by Chen Shou (233–297 CE) during the Western Jin dynasty. It is a biographical state-by-state history chronicling the Three Kingdoms period – Wei, Shu, and Wu – and comprises 65 scrolls: Book of Wei (30 scrolls),Book of Shu (15 scrolls), and Book of Wu (20 scrolls).

  • The Flames of Yiling [Three Kingdoms]

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    This article recounts the Battle of Yiling. Grieved by Guan Yu’s death, Liu Bei ignored advice to attack Wu. Lu Xun waited patiently, then launched a devastating fire attack, destroying Shu’s army. Liu Bei fled to Baidicheng (Baidi City), fell ill, and entrusted his kingdom to Zhuge Liang.