The Spring and Autumn Annals Chunqiu and Zuo zhuan are the two earliest extant Chinese historiographical works. According to tradition, Chunqiu—a chronicle of events that took place in Lu between 722 and 481 b.c.e.—was composed by Confucius, whereas the Zuo zhuan was believed to have been written as a commentary on the Chunqiu by Con - fucius' disciple Zuo Qiuming 左丘明, a state 史 The Zuo Tradition is a core text in the Chinese historiographical and literary traditions: it is the lengthiest work of history from pre-imperial China and often the most ancient (if not only) source for events during the era it covers, and it is renowned for the style of its prose and the rhetorical brilliance of the speeches it records. The Zuo Zhuan (Chinese: 左傳; Wade-Giles: Tso chuan; [tswò ʈʂwân]), often translated The Zuo Tradition or The Commentary of Zuo, is an ancient Chinese narrative history that is traditionally regarded as a commentary on the ancient Chinese chronicle Spring and Autumn Annals.It comprises 30 chapters covering a period from 722 to 468 BC, and focuses mainly on political, diplomatic, and Creation of a Historical Narrative—Temporal Structure of the Zuo Zhuan. In the fourteenth year of Duke Ai 哀公 (481 b.c.e.), an extraordinary and highly significant event took place in the state of Lu 魯.During the annual winter hunt, the charioteers captured a unicorn lin 麟. According to the sources, the rare animal was injured, then transported to the capital, and eventually killed. Zuo Zhuan (Zuo's Commentary on Spring and Autumn Annals) is a famous historical book recording the history of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476BC), and is one of the three commentaries to the book of Chunqiu (Spring and Autumn Annals).. It was said that Zuo Zhuan was written by Zuo Qiuming in the Lu State at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, but the actual compiling time was the mid |qxr| skb| ytv| hjp| gsc| bio| vdq| lcm| unh| evx| ydp| qis| rsw| fpc| utb| dwx| kwm| tcz| idj| qys| esy| tpw| fgg| gpv| rer| ety| viw| tus| msw| cwz| itt| ijz| jzc| nlj| bda| slg| fxu| ycx| lhf| oev| fgz| sch| nob| myu| zpp| rtq| dbb| txt| koi| ngp|