What is the Guigu Zi about?

Guigu Zi (鬼谷子) is the only theoretical work that lays down the system of thinking of Zongheng and Hengjiao (纵横家), which has been preserved to this day. It can be said to be a book on military affairs, but its content covers diplomatic tactics, negotiation skills, the way to use military force, the strategy of success, and the understanding of others' psychology, etc. It observes and recognizes the world from people's psychology, and aims at obeying and satisfying people's desires. Its value has been criticized and criticized by many people.

Those who rejected the Guigu Zi basically looked at it from the perspective of traditional morality or from the perspective of practical utility. Those who are positive or cautious about "Guigu Zi" have a positive or negative attitude. Although some of them are also from personal feelings and practical utility, such as: Changsun Wuji, Chen Zi'ang. However, most of them have already started from the ideological and academic value. For example: ruan yuan sure "ghost valley" is mainly to see the "ghost valley" in the history of thought and academic value, liu fengfeng sure "ghost valley", but also because of the initial see the "ghost valley" in the thought and rhetoric of creativity.

Guigu Zi was a person in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the teacher out of Taoism, but also the Zongheng and Hengjiao, the ancestor of the military, his shrewdness lies in that, at that time, the hundred schools of thought and culture of the schools of thought can be proficient, and his creation of the work of "Guigu Zi" by the world's research.

This "Guigu Zi" is ostensibly to talk about the lobbying between the kings at the time, the way to split the world, knowledge of people with the tactics of the military, but to this day, the ancient for the modern world still has a lot of profound truth, and can learn from, and therefore used in diplomacy and military, dealing with people, the workplace with the people in charge of the people, can be cited to reflect the three, to be able to apply.