Illustrated Liu Bowen’s Art of War: Golden Letter and Jade Mirror Qimen Dunjia Lower Part Introduction to Dunjia study”. Legend has it that this technique was invented by the Yellow Emperor in ancient times. Jiang Ziya of the Zhou Dynasty, Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms, etc.

Illustration of Liu Bowen’s Art of War: Jin Han Yu Jing Qi Men Dun Jia Lower Part of Dun Jia Essentials

Introduction

Qimen Dunjia is the first secret art among the three great numbers “Qimen, Taiyi, and Liuren” in ancient China. It is the highest level of forecasting, known as “the study of emperors”. Legend has it that this technique was invented by the Yellow Emperor in ancient times. Jiang Ziya of the Zhou Dynasty, Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms and others all used Qimen Dunjia superbly in marching and fighting. The famous “Eight Arrays” was created by Zhuge Liang according to the theory of the Qimen. In “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, Zhuge Liang used the magic tricks and borrowed the east wind. In the Ming Dynasty, Liu Bowen collected the achievements of Zhang Liang and Zhuge Liang, summed up the theories of the predecessors, and searched for many secret folk versions, sorted them out, and finally revised them into this “Golden Letter and Jade Mirror Qimen Dunjia” in our hands. Today, the military is no longer the ancient tactics of flat confrontation, and Qimen Dunjia has also faded out of the military field, but it can still measure daily life, choose auspicious times and auspicious methods, and avoid unfavorable factors. Different from other Qimen classics, “Golden Letter and Jade Mirror Qimen Dunjia” focuses on sharing Pepsi, such as loan, marriage, going out, illness, examination, promotion… You can find prediction methods in the book. On the basis of keeping the original text, this book carefully proofreads and adds vernacular summaries to present the profound knowledge and methods to readers with modern graphic techniques. It is a rare collection of masterpieces.

Brief introduction of the author

Liu Ji, courtesy name Bowen, was a military strategist, statesman, and mathematician in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. He assisted Zhu Yuanzhang in establishing the imperial career and the Ming Dynasty, and was called “Zhuge Liang of the Ming Dynasty” by later generations. He was extremely intelligent and extremely talented since he was a child, and he is very familiar with various schools of thought, especially astronomy, geography, art of war, and spells. His natural endowment and acquired hard work made him quickly stand out and become a great talent in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Because of his high intelligence and talent, and his great reputation, he was portrayed by the people as a fairy figure who could “know five hundred years before and five hundred years later”. His works are quite abundant, such as “Hundred Wars and Strange Strategies”, “Eighteen Strategies for Current Affairs”, “Fire Dragon Artifact Formation”, “Di Tiansui”, “Song of Shaobing” and so on. “Golden Letter and Jade Mirror Qimen Dunjia” is his collection of Zhang Liang and Zhuge Liang’s achievements, summarizing the theories of predecessors, and searching for many folk secret versions, and sorting it out. It condenses his actual combat experience in many years of military career. A classic among books.

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Illustrated Liu Bowen’s Art of War: Jin Han Yu Jing Qi Men Dun Jia Lower Part of Dun Jia Essentials