曹操是孫子學中重要的一環。學者認為《孫子》流傳可分為曹注本以前、以後兩個 時期。曹操對東漢以來風行的古代兵書作過系統鑒選。例如，重新刪選《吳孫子》，單 獨抽出《十三篇》作注；又編輯其他雜篇為《續孫子兵法》；後集各家兵法為《兵書接 要》，諸般作為讓他成為譯注孫子學文獻基礎之奠基者，影響後世極大。本文旨在分析 曹操影響孫子學的後世發展，並究其因何在。

Warfare is a necessary evil that comes with the development of civilizations. Sun Tzu’s the Art of War should be seen as a very influential military treatise reflecting Chinese warfare experiences. Cao Cao (曹操) is a renaissance man of the late East Han dynasty. Being a famous poet and a victorious general, his exegesis on Sun Tzu reveals his literary understanding and military experiences. Why, one might ask, is Cao Cao important in Sunziology? Some scholars1 argue that the distribution of Sun Tzu’s the Art of War can be divided into two periods: prior to Cao Cao’s Concise Exegeses on Sun Tzu (《孫子略解》), and after its publication. Cao Cao systematically evaluated Sun Tzu’s the Art of War (aka Wu’s the Art of War《吳孫子》), edited and modernized it, and wrote an exegesis on the original Thirteen Chapters (《十三篇》). He also gathered the miscellaneous Sun Tzu articles and composed the Sun Tzu’s the Art of War, Part II (《續孫子兵法》). He collected texts by other authors who wrote on the subject and compiled the book, Summary of the Art of War (《兵書 接要》). Cao became regarded as a founder of discursivity in this field, and, his exegeses on Sun Tzu are valuable because they contain both theoretical and practical meanings, and thus have served as a model for many scholars following his path of interpretation. For this reason, this paper intends to examine how Cao influences the course of the study in Sunziology.