Zuo Zhuan is China's first detailed narrative chronicle of history, what is the main record?

To know what is recorded in Zuo Zhuan, first of all, it must be clear that the full name of Zuo Zhuan is Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals, and then changed to Spring and Autumn Annals Zuo's Biographies during the Han Dynasty, which recorded the history of Spring and Autumn Annals from the year of Lu Yin Gong Yuan to the 27th year of Lu Ai Gong. It is dated from 722 BC to 468 BC.

Zuo Zhuan is a great book with real charm. In the era of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, when bamboo was used as paper and the pen was used as a knife, this great work of 180,000 words could be regarded as a miracle. Turning the pages of this masterpiece, which has made extraordinary achievements in literature and historiography, it seems that the windy and magnificent scroll of the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,000 years ago is displayed in front of our eyes. The wars of bloodshed and sculling, the lives of one and all, the debates and exchanges of various ideas, the inheritance of various rules and regulations and cultural customs, and the vicissitudes of history for nearly three hundred years are all shown in the encyclopedic work Zuo Zhuan

Zuo Zhuan is the first detailed chronicle in our country, and it has far-reaching impacts in the fields of economics, historiography, and literature; however, among the pre-Qin ancient books, Zuo Zhuan is the most important book in China. However, among the pre-Qin ancient books, Zuo Zhuan is also one of the most controversial classical works. Issues such as the nature of Zuo Zhuan, its authorship, the date of its creation, and its relationship with Spring and Autumn Period and Guoyu (The Language of the State) can be said to have been the subject of numerous studies in different dynasties.

This provides us with a wealth of information to study Zuo Zhuan, but also increases the great challenge of this work: standing on the shoulders of giants undoubtedly gives us a broader vision, but the outstanding research results of the predecessors are also a kind of confinement, which makes it difficult for us to break through the innovation; moreover, more than 2,000 years ago, ancient people lived in the natural environment, all aspects of the social situation, and even the language and writing have been greatly developed and changed, even if the canonical texts are not available, we will not be able to find any new information. Moreover, more than two thousand years ago, all aspects of the natural environment, social patterns, and even the language and writing of the ancients had changed greatly, so even with the records of the canonical texts and the supporting evidence of the unearthed artifacts, most of our interpretations are just a kind of conjecture - all these are the difficulties in our modern study of the Zuo Zhuan.

But Zuo Zhuan itself is a very attractive text, it is not only a history book, but also a pioneering work of Chinese narrative literature, scholars have studied and interpreted it from the aspects of economics, history and literature, and the essence of it has been widely used; Zuo Zhuan also carries the cultural information and humanistic spirit of the Chinese nation from the ancient times to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which has influenced China for thousands of years, and is still a source of innovation for the cultural inheritance of the Chinese nation today. Zuo Zhuan also carries the cultural information and humanistic spirit of the Chinese nation from ancient times to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which has influenced China for thousands of years and is still the source of our national cultural inheritance and innovation.