Zuo Zhuan is China's first what history book

Zuo Zhuan (左传) is China's first chronicle with a complete narrative.

Zuo Zhuan is essentially an independently written work of historical literature, which began in the year of Lu Yin Gong Yuan (722 BC) and ended in the twenty-seventh year of Lu Ai Gong (468 BC), and is based on the Spring and Autumn Annals and illustrates the outlines of the Spring and Autumn Annals through the recounting of specific historical facts of the Spring and Autumn Annals period.

The Zuo Zhuan has been released in 2021 as one of the 100 Classics of Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture. The old biography of Zuo Zhuan was written by Zuo Qiu Ming during the Spring and Autumn Period, and is recently believed to have been compiled by someone during the Warring States period. It is one of the important classics of Confucianism, and an important study history book for Confucian scholars of all generations, together with Gongyang Chuan and Guliang Chuan, known as the "Three Chuan of the Spring and Autumn Period".

Zuo Qiu Ming Introduction

Zuo Qiu Ming, birth and death date is unknown, one said that the compound surname of Zuo Qiu, the name of Ming; one said that the single surname of Zuo, the name Qiu Ming. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, he was a historian, writer, thinker and essayist.

Zuo Qiu Ming was a historian of the state of Lu, and it is said that in order to analyze the Spring and Autumn Annals, he made Zuo Zhuan (also known as Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals) and Guoyu, and when he made Guoyu, he was already blind, and the two books recorded a lot of important historical events of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Annals and preserved the original materials of high value. Due to the detailed historical information and vivid writing style, they have aroused the love and discussion of scholars in ancient and modern China and abroad, and have been praised as "Sage of Literature and History" and "Ancestor of the Scripture Ministers and Historians". Confucius and Sima Qian both honored Zuo Qiuming as a "gentleman".