List of Chinese military texts
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List of Chinese military texts

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Name	Authors	Content	Dynasty	Date	Origin	Image	Description

Sun Bin's Art of War (Chinese: 孫臏兵法; pinyin: Sūnbìn Bīngfă)	Sun Bin	The treastise contains 89 extensive chapters, with four volumes of pictures attached.	Warring States period.	4th century BC	Qi state

Thirty-Six Stratagems (Chinese: 三十六計; pinyin: Sānshíliù Jì)	Unknown; attributed to various	A text used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, as well as in civil interaction, often through unorthodox or deceptive means	Unknown; attributed to various	Unknown; attributed to various	Unknown; attributed to various	-	A page from a Ming Dynasty edition of the Book of Qi, from which the name of the Thirty-Six Stratagems comes from.

Wujing Zongyao (Chinese: 武經總要; pinyin: Wǔjīng Zǒngyào; Wade–Giles: Wu Ching Tsung Yao; literally: "Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques")	Zeng Gongliang (曾公亮), Ding Du (丁度), and Yang Weide (楊惟德)	The text is a Chinese military compendium, covering a wide range of subjects, everything from naval warships to different types of catapults.	Northern Song Dynasty	1044 AD	Northern Song state	-	An illustration of the Wujing Zongyao showing a Chinese Song Dynasty naval river ship with a Xuanfeng traction-trebuchet catapult on its top deck.

Huolongjing (simplified Chinese: 火龙经; traditional Chinese: 火龍經; pinyin: Huǒ Lóng Jīng Wade-Giles: Huo Lung Ching)	Jiao Yu and Liu Bowen	A treastise that outlines the use of various 'fire–weapons' involving the use of gunpowder. It discusses various gunpowder compositions, bombs, fire arrows, rocket launchers, land mines, naval mines, proto–guns, fire lances, bombards and cannons.	Ming Dynasty	14th century	Ming state	-	Huolongjing depicting the 'Flying Crow with Magic Fire', an aerodynamic winged rocket bomb.

Jixiao Xinshu (Chinese: 紀效新書)	Qi Jiguang (戚繼光)	A text in which Qi Jiguang writes about strategy, armed and unarmed fighting and many other aspects of warfare.	Ming Dynasty	16th century	Ming state	-	Painting of Qi Jiguang, author of Jixiao Xinshu.

The General's Garden (simplified Chinese: 将苑; traditional Chinese: 將苑; pinyin: Jiàng Yuàn)	Zhuge Liang (諸葛亮)	A short text plagiarising earlier military treatises, falsely attributed to Zhuge Liang.	Song Dynasty	12th century	Song state	-	Part of a 12th-century manuscript scroll of the Tangut translation of The General's Garden.

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