Spring and Autumn Annals
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The Spring and Autumn Annals is an ancient Chinese chronicle that has been one of the core Chinese classics since ancient times. The Annals is the official chronicle of the State of Lu, and covers a 2
19th-century replica of Du Yu's 3rd-century CE annotated Annals
An excerpt from the Spring and Autumn Annals carved on a surviving slab of the "Zhengshi Stone Classics" (正始石經, also known as the "Santi Stone Classics" 三體石經), dated to the year 241, now located in the Luoyang Museum. The "Zhengshi Stone Classics" are almost completely lost, only except for a few remnants.
The beginning of the Spring and Autumn Annals from a later printed edition
Russian translation, 1876
Lu (state)
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Lu was a vassal state during the Zhou dynasty of ancient China located around modern southwest Shandong. Founded in the 11th century BC, its rulers were from a cadet branch of the House of Ji that rul
Spring and Autumn Annals
…Annals is an ancient Chinese chronicle that has been one of the core Chinese classics since ancient times. The Annals is the official chronicle of the State of Lu, and covers a 242-year period from 722 to 481 BCE. It is the earliest surviving Chinese historical text to be arranged in annals form. Because it was…
A remnant of the city wall of Lu's capital city, surviving on the outskirts of Qufu