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
The Spring and Autumn period was a period in Chinese history corresponding roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou, characterized by the gradual erosion of royal power as local lords nominally s
Spring and Autumn Annals
…as "an arid and dead chronicle". The Annals have become so evocative of the era in which they were composed that it is now widely referred to as the Spring and Autumn period. Legge, James (1872), The Ch'un Ts'ëw with The Tso Chuen, The Chinese Classics, Vol. V, Hong Kong: Lane, Crawford, & Co. (part 1 and part 2 at the…
Leather horse armour from the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, 5th century BCE
Yue style bronze building and entertainers (Spring and Autumn period)
Urbanization during the Spring and Autumn period.