本书以著名的三十六计为框架，描述历史上的三十六种诡计。每计后的注释，是依据《易经》中阴阳变化之理和古代兵家刚柔、奇正、彼己、主客、劳逸等对立统一关系相互转化的思想写成的。(Based on the famous Thirty-Six Stratagems, this book introduces 36 deceptions in history. The notes after each deception is based on the law of changes of yin and yang in I Ching, and the unity and opposites relationship and the mutual transformation of military and civil strategies, sudden and regular attacks, enemies and friends, two sides of war, and labor and leisure in military strategies of ancient China.)