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    The Zuo Zhuan (Chinese: 左傳; Wade–Giles: Tso chuan; [tswò ʈʂwân]), often translated as The Zuo Tradition or as The Commentary of Zuo, an ancient Chinese...
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    peers and reportedly appreciated by the people. Favorably treated in the Zuo Zhuan (an ancient text of history), Zichan drew comments from his near-contemporary...
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    basic philosophical outlook of Zuo Zhuan, attributed to Zuo Qiu Ming, is strongly Confucian in nature. The Zuo Zhuan's overarching theme is that haughty...
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  • Miáo; 'Three Miao'), the tribes that attacked Emperor Yao's tribe. In Zuo Zhuan, Shanhaijing, and Shenyijing, the Four Perils (Hanzi: 四凶; pinyin: Sì Xiōng)...
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    elaborate on or find deeper meaning in the brief entries in the Annals. The Zuo Zhuan, the best known of these commentaries, became a classic in its own right...
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  • with the Zuo Zhuan and the Guliang Zhuan, the work is one of the Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals. In particular, Gongyang Zhuan is a central...
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  • write of the Zuo Zhuan's superiority to both the Guliang Zhuan and the Gongyang Zhuan. Jia produced the work, arguing that only Zuo Zhuan agreed with the...
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     556, 557. Cook; Major (1999), pp. 15, 16. Zuo Qiuming (2015), p. 98. Zuo Qiuming. "Book 5. Duke Xi". Zuo Zhuan (in Chinese and English). Retrieved 27 August...
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    although its modern form is a reconstruction. The ancient narratives Zuo Zhuan and Guoyu contain the oldest descriptions of divination using the Zhou...
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    reference to the game is generally recognized as the historical annal Zuo Zhuan (c. 4th century BCE). Despite its relatively simple rules, Go is extremely...
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    the beginning of the Warring States period. Ancient sources such as the Zuo Zhuan and the eponymous Chunqiu record the various diplomatic activities, such...
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    was also defeated during that campaign remains unclear; reports in the Zuo Zhuan and the Bamboo Annals make it likely that Xu forces continued to resist...
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    of the Huaxia concept is in the Zuo Zhuan, a historical narrative and commentary authored before 300 BCE. In Zuo zhuan, Huaxia refers to the central states...
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    eDigest. August 8, 2020. Retrieved July 25, 2022. "Duke Zhao, Year 31". Zuo Zhuan (in Chinese). Streisand, Barbra (2023). My Name Is Barbra. US & UK: Viking...
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    lin (麟) was captured in the 14th year of Duke Ai of Lu (魯哀公) (481 CE); Zuo Zhuan credited Confucius with identifying the lin as such. The bisyllabic form...
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    In 641 BC, Liang was conquered by the State of Qin. According to the Zuo Zhuan, the Liang people were not able to bear the work given to them by the...
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    known during the Shang period. The first known usage of Taotie is in the Zuo Zhuan, a narrative history of China written in 30 chapters between 722 and 468 BCE...
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  • these texts would have been exempted, and that the Book of Rites and the Zuo Zhuan did not contain the glorification of defeated feudal states which the...
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    primarily on the grounds that he is not mentioned in the historical classic Zuo Zhuan, which mentions most of the notable figures from the Spring and Autumn...
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    the conquest, and is completely absent in earlier works such as Guoyu, Zuo zhuan, and Records of the Grand Historian. Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diao Chan and...
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    Confucian classics and in astrology. The Shenxian zhuan (Biographies of Divine Transcendents) says Zuo Ci was expert in fenshen multilocation, divination...
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  • surrounding his death are detailed in the Chinese classic text Zuo Zhuan. According to the Zuo Zhuan, the duke first dreamt of a malevolent spirit. After waking...
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  • military power. In spring 645 BC, Chu finally invaded Xu. According to the Zuo Zhuan, the invasion was a retaliation for the destruction of Shu and the related...
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    work of Chinese history, the Zuo Zhuan or Commentary of Zuo, was traditionally considered to have been written in Lu by Zuo Qiuming. The state's capital...
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    originated in China roughly 2,500 years ago in ancient chronicles such as the Zuo Zhuan. It originates from ancient Chinese legends about the spirits that harm...
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    Pre-Qin Surname System (《先秦姓氏制度考察》) (in Chinese), Fuzhou: Fujian People's Publishing. Zuo Qiuming, Zuo Zhuan (《左传》). Miyake, Marc. 2018. Chu and Kra-Dai....
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    including classical works such as the Analects, the Mencius, and the Zuo Zhuan. These works served as models for Literary Chinese (or Classical Chinese)...
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    Annals Bamboo Annals Zuo Zhuan • 1st Year of Lŭ Yìn Gōng Zuo zhuan • 6th Year of Zhuāng Gōng, see also the Eighteenth year Zuo Zhuan • 28th Year of Xī Gōng...
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    primarily on the grounds that he is not mentioned in the historical classic Zuo Zhuan, which mentions most of the notable figures from the Spring and Autumn...
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  • and, by extension, its commentaries such as the Zuo Zhuan, the Gongyang Zhuan, and the Guliang Zhuan. After the death of Duke Hui of Lu in 723 BC after...
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