Sun Bin (Military Strategist)
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Sun Bin (Military Strategist) 🇨🇳

孫臏 (Known as "Sun Bin")
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Born c. 380 BCE 🇨🇳 Juan / Yanggu (Shandong), Qi State (China)
Passed Away c. 316 BCE Linzi (Shandong), Qi State (China)
Lifespan ~64 years old
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"Pang Juan dies beneath this tree! (Words carved upon the tree trunk at the Maling ambush)."

Archival Overview

Descendant of Sun Tzu and chief military strategist of the State of Qi whose tactical brilliance devised 'Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao' and won the Battle of Maling.

Biographical Record

Sun Bin (died 316 BC) was a preeminent Chinese military strategist and general of the Warring States period, acknowledged as a direct descendant of Sun Tzu. Betrayed by his envious fellow student Pang Juan in the state of Wei, Sun Bin was falsely convicted of treason and subjected to horrific punishment—his kneecaps were surgically removed and his face tattooed as a criminal.

Rescued and brought to the state of Qi by General Tian Ji, Sun Bin became the supreme strategist of King Wei of Qi. He authored the masterwork Sun Bin's Art of War (Sun Bin Bingfa), rediscovered in Han tomb excavations in 1972. Sun Bin formulated the classic strategy 'Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao' at the Battle of Guiling (354 BC) and lured Pang Juan into an ambush at the Battle of Maling (342 BC) by reducing cooking fires each night to feign troop desertion, destroying the Wei army.

Key Life Milestones

Battle of Guiling

Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao

Attacked the undefended capital of Wei to force the withdrawal of Pang Juan's besieging army from Zhao, crushing them on their return march.

Battle of Maling

The Stratagem of the Diminishing Stoves

Feigned mass desertions by reducing cooking fires daily, luring Pang Juan into a nighttime crossbow kill-zone at the narrow Maling Pass.

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Final Resting Place

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Sun Bin Memorial Tomb Complex
Juancheng (Heze), China
GPS: 35.5922, 115.5111
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