A Research On "Huqianjing" Of Xu Dong In Northern Song Dynasty

The early Song dynasty,Xudong's work,Huqianjing is one of the top ten military writings of our country.It refers to The Art of War and Taibaiyinjing.It comprehensively introduces the military knowledge of the previous generation,The book records military thought and military practice and reflection.Its content is extensive and profound.covering all aspects related to operations.The book has 10 volumes and 210 articles.For now,there is no intensive research on this comprehensive military book.This thesis focus on Xudong,background,strategy and tactics,logistic support and divination,based on above to make a estimate.There are many reasons why Xudong has written Huqianjing.The Northern Song Dynasty since the late Tang Dynasty two hundred years of war situation,the establishment of a relatively unified dynasty.But its strength is weak,so has received the Khitan regime and the threat of the party regime.In order to enhance the national strength,the community set off a wave of Confucianism to talk about the military boom.Xudong was born in the official family,to Confucianism for a living,with a brief officer experience,In order to be able to find an officer again,he wrote Huqianjing during his removal.Huqianjing is a comprehensive record of the strategy and tactics,which is the succession of previous experience.Choosing generals shows high theoretical value.Huqianjing recognizes that the generals have a very important role in the war,so the king should trust the generals so that they can make independent decisions and give full play to the generals.This book provides a complete set of general criteria for the selection,for future generations have important significance.Spy using has an important influence on the process of war and is an important tactic.Huqianjing inherited the predecessors of the use of spy theory,refined the use of spy,which is of great significance to later generations have had a profound impact.On the weapons research,due to the author's reasons,Huqianjing is not much innovation,mainly inherited the results of predecessors.This collection of previous achievements,for readers to fully understand the relevant circumstances,this is a convenient way.This thesis focus on bow crossbow and other weapons.to research weapon theory.Xudong attachs great importance to logistic support.There are several chapters and details in his book.Xudong initial established water using theory.As the Northern Song Dynasty has been facing the difficulties of horses shortage,Huqianjing used a lot of chapters to study the horses,.Huqianjing recorded militaryrelated medical knowledge has a strong practicality,such as trauma,plague,skin frostbite,etc.,this book on these issues are discussed in a chapter.Other medical knowledge is scattered throughout the book,and these medical knowledge plays an important role in the treatment of soldiers' injuries.All above research in Huqianjing was epoch making and ground-breaking.Military feudal superstition is an important part of Huqianjing.This thesis provides a detailed description of the content,details the prediction of the rainbow,and points out that the prevalence and military-related feudal superstition,the general fool the soldiers Strategy.It reflected the feudal impacts and belief.In short,Huqianjing comprehensively absorbs the predecessors of the military theory,brought together the tactics of China's cold weapons era,Huqianjing is an important military book,which has a certain influence for late generation military writers and military books.