Together with the Gongyang Zhuan and Guliang Zhuan, the work forms one of the surviving Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals.
Zuo Zongtang | Zuo Zhuan | Wang Zuo | Guliang Zhuan | Gongyang Zhuan | Zuo Shusheng |
Along with the Zuo Zhuan and Guliang Zhuan the work is one of the Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals.
Along with the Zuo Zhuan and Gongyang Zhuan the work is one of the Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals.
As a historian, Xu Xusheng authored the 1943 book, Zhong-guogushi tie chuanshiio shidai ("The legendary times in early Chinese history") where he comments that the name of Five Emperors was not mentioned until the Warring States era and cannot be found in the Zuo Zhuan, Guoyu, Lunyu, Mozi or Mengzi.