文档介绍：Zuo Zhuan 1
Zuo Zhuan
Zuo Zhuan
First page of the book
Author Zuo Qiuming
Original title 左傳
Country Zhou Dynasty China
Language Classical Chinese
Subject History of China during the Spring and Autumn Period
Published no later than 389 BC
Zuo Zhuan (Tso Chuan; Chinese: 左傳), or Chunqiu Zuo Zhuan, sometimes translated as the Chronicle of Zuo or
mentary of Zuo, is among the earliest Chinese works of narrative history, covering the period from 722 to
468 BC. It is one of the most important sources for understanding the history of the Spring and Autumn Period
(Chunqiu). Together with the Gongyang Zhuan and Guliang Zhuan, the work forms one of the surviving Three
Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals.
Zuo Zhuan is traditionally attributed to Zuo Qiuming, as mentary to the Spring and Autumn Annals. Most
notable modern scholars of this book such as Yang Bojun (楊伯峻) hold that the work piled during the
Warring States period, with pilation date not later than 389 BC.
Liang Qichao (梁启超) further proposed from internal parative textual analyses that the extant editions of
Zuo Zhuan and Guoyu derive from a pre-Liu Xiang edition of "Guoyu" that originally had passages from the two.
The neatly delineated, plementary distribution of accounts between the two was to him evidence
that Liu Xiang extracted historical accounts parallel to those in the An