Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋)
Item
- Title
- Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋)
- Chinese Title
- 春秋
- Romanizations
- Chun qiu
- Chunqiu
- Ch'un-ch'iu
- Author(s)
- Confucius
- Year
- Warring States period of the Zhou dynasty
- Summary
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The Chunqiu (Spring and Autumn Annals) is the official chronicle of the State of Lu, covering the period from 722 to 481 BCE. Traditionally attributed to Confucius, it is one of the revered Five Classics of Chinese literature.
The text is famously terse, recording events like accessions, wars, and natural disasters with minimal elaboration. However, it is historically significant for the theory of "praise and blame"—the belief that Confucius encoded subtle moral judgments into his precise choice of words. Because the text is so brief, it is almost always studied alongside the Zuo Zhuan, a commentary that provides the essential historical narrative.
- URLs
- ChinaKnowledge.de
- Item sets
- Classical Texts
Linked resources
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| Le Tchun Tsiou, Quatrième Livre Canonique du premier Ordre | TranslationSection |
| Le Tchun Tsiou. Quatriéme Livre Canonique du premier Ordre | TranslationSection |
| Ver et Autumnus | TranslationSection |
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
 Cursus litteraturae sinicae |
Translation |
 Description [...] de l'empire de la Chine (1735) |
Translation |
 Description [...] de l'empire de la Chine (1736) |
Translation |
 Doctrinae Sinicae brevis indagatio |
Translation |
 From Confucius to Zhu Xi |
Translation |
 Philosophia sinica tribus tractatibus |
Translation |