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2 unusual facts about Spring and Autumn Annals


Chunqiu

Chunqiu or Ch‘un-ch‘iu (Chinese: "Spring and Autumn") usually refers to the Spring and Autumn Annals, a history of the state of Lu during the early Eastern Zhou dynasty.

Li Tao

But his greatest passion was in the field of history: he devoted himself in the learning of The Spring and Autumn Annals, looked up to Sima Guang and strongly believed that history should be written as a guide for Confucian ethics.


History of Chinese newspapers

The historic roots of Chinese language periodicals goes back to the Spring and Autumn Annals, and traces through more than a thousand years of tipao, including Kaiyuan Za Bao and the Peking Gazette.

Records of the Grand Historian

For example, in the first chapter, "Annals of the Five Emperors," he writes, "I have read the Spring and Autumn Annals and the Guoyu." In his 13th chapter, "Genealogical Table of the Three Ages," Sima Qian writes, "I have read all the genealogies of the kings (dieji 谍记) that exist since the time of the Yellow Emperor."


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