Jiāng tài gōng 姜太公 / Lǚ Shàng 呂尚 / Tàigōng Wàng 太公望 (trad. dates often given as c. 1156–1017 BCE) — the founding strategist of the Western Zhōu, traditionally credited with assisting King Wén and King Wǔ in establishing the Zhōu dynasty after the conquest of Shāng. Best known from the Liù tāo 六韜 strategic treatise (received text Hàn-era, attributed to him). From the late-imperial period he is the canonical patron deity of military strategists and divinatory-strategists; his cult is bound up with the broader yīnfú jīng / bīngjiā shénjī (strategist spirit-mechanism) tradition. He is the namesake of KR5i0061 Tài gōng yīn fú jīng, a late-Míng / early-Qīng pseudepigraphic scripture in the Yīnfú class. Standard reference: Sawyer, The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China (Westview 1993), translation of the Liù tāo; Lewis, Sanctioned Violence in Early China (SUNY 1990).