[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Thirty-Six Strategies 24: Borrow The Road To Conquer Guo

This stratagem advises using an ally's strategic location as a launch point for your own troops.

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Thirty-Six Strategies 23: Befriend A Distant Enemy To Attack One Nearby

This stratagem has two applications: the first is the more obvious. Avoid a two-front war by making peace with everybody else before you go to war against an opponent.

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Thirty-Six Strategies 22: Shut The Door To Catch The Thief

If you have the chance to completely capture the enemy then you should do so thereby bringing the battle or war to a quick and lasting conclusion. To allow your enemy to escape plants the seeds for future conflict...

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] The Latecomers Surpass the Old-timers

This story comes from The Historical Records. Later generations use the set phrase "the latecomers surpass the old-timers " to indicate that successors can excel the predecessors...

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Thirty-Six Strategies 21: Shed Your Skin Like The Golden Cicada

The cicada sheds its skin intact, so that the shell looks like a real cicada. Similarly, outnumbered generals or those who were targets for assassination created false impersonations of themselves to escape danger.

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Thirty-Six Strategies 20: Fish in troubled waters

Literally speaking, this idiom means fish would be confused and disoriented in troubled waters, in this case people could take the opportunity to catch it and thus acquire unexpected profits.

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Thirty-Six Strategies 19: Take a drastic measure to deal with a situation

The idiom literally means to take away the firewood from under the cauldron. As figure of speech it indicates to remove the ultimate cause of trouble.

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Thirty-Six Strategies 18: Catch bandits first catch the ringleader

When used for military affairs, it means catching the ringleader is an available way to crumple up the main force of the enemy, because this action will get the enemy into confusion and lose battle effectiveness.

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Thirty-Six Strategies 17: Throw out a brick to attract a jade

Now people try to use this statement which indicates that one first establishes a superficial opinion or analogy in order to lead others setup higher purposes or features.

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Mencius' Mother Moving Three Times

The Chinese people think the outside environment is very important for a people's growth, Mencius's mother( Mencious, the great chinese ideologist in the ancient time)moved three times to find a better neighbourhood for the growth of his son.