The translation of Zhao Jianzi s article in L s Spring and Autumn .

The full text and translation of Lu's Spring and Autumn Period.

Lü's Spring and Autumn Period is a miscellaneous work compiled by Lü Buwei, the prime minister of the Qin State in the last years of the Warring States Period (around 239 B.C.), which is also known as "Hail Lü Lan". The book is divided into 12 periods, 8 reviews, and 6 treatises, with a total of 12 volumes, 16 articles, and more than 200,000 words. It was written in 239 BC, on the eve of the unification of the Six Kingdoms by the Qin State.

Lü's Spring and Autumn Period is divided into 12 periods, 8 reviews, and 6 treatises, with a total of 26 volumes, 160 articles, and more than 200,000 words. The content is mixed, and there are various schools of thought such as Confucianism, Taoism, Mo, Law, Soldiers, Agriculture, Vertical and Horizontal, Yin and Yang, etc., so the "Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles" and so on are included in the miscellaneous families. Although the content is mixed, it is not without a system in terms of organization, and it is not without theory in compilation, and it is not without a system in terms of content.

As the book "The Public" says: "There is no pure white fox in the world, but there is a pure white fur, and the white is taken." The purpose of compiling "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" is obviously to gather the essence of each family and form the thought of one family, that is, to take Taoist thought as the backbone and integrate the doctrines of each school.

According to Lü Buwei, the book's approach to the ideas of each school is entirely based on objectivity, and it has a fair attitude towards all schools of thought and treats them equally. For "private sight blinds the eye, private hearing deafness, and selfish concern makes the heart mad." If all three are selfish and refined, then there is no wisdom to be public.

If wisdom is not fair, the blessing will decline day by day, and the disaster will be prosperous. (Lü's Spring and Autumn Period, Preface).

The 12 epochs of Lü's Spring and Autumn Period are the main purpose of the book and an important part of the book, which are divided into "Spring Chronicle", "Summer Chronicle", "Autumn Chronicle" and "Winter Chronicle". There are 5 articles in each period, for a total of 60 articles. This book is based on the "Dharma Heaven and Earth", and the Twelve Chronicles are the heavens that symbolize the "Great Yuan", so this part uses the December Order as a clue to combine materials.

"Spring Chronicle" mainly discusses the way of health preservation, "Summer Chronicle" discusses teaching principles and theories, "Autumn Chronicle" mainly discusses military issues, and "Winter Chronicle" mainly discusses human quality issues. Eight reviews, now 63 articles, apparently taken off one. The content starts from the groundbreaking, and has always talked about the way of being a person, the way of governing the country, and how to recognize and distinguish things, how to use the people, and be the king.

Lü's Spring and Autumn Period preserves the different doctrines of the various schools and schools of the pre-Qin period, and also records a lot of ancient historical news, the last words of the ancients, ancient texts and some ancient scientific knowledge, many of which are not found in other books.

In the past, "Lü's Spring and Autumn" was well received by people. Sima Qian called it "the preparation of all things in heaven and earth, ancient and modern". In the Book of Reporting Ren'an, Renru even compares it to "Zhou Yi", "Spring and Autumn", "Chinese", "Lisao" and so on.

When Gao Lu of the Eastern Han Dynasty commented on it, he said that it was "greater than the right of all the sons".