create/beget/fabricate (sth) out of nothing

(China idiom)

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Out of nothing: the seventh plan in "Thirty-six Plans", the original text is: "Yes, no, exactly." Shaoyin, Taiyin, Sun. "This finger didn't, but insisted that there is. Now describe fabrication out of thin air. This statement comes from the 40th chapter of Lao Zi's Tao Te Ching, an ancient philosopher in China (some are also called military strategists): "Everything in the world is born of something, and everything is born of nothing". Laozi revealed the law of interdependence and mutual change of all things. Wei Liaozi, an ancient Chinese military strategist, applied Laozi's dialectical thought to the military and further analyzed the relationship between nothingness and reality.