Spring and Autumn Giant: The Story of China

Author: Chen Zuhuai
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: The Story of China is a comprehensive showcase of the latest achievements in the study and promotion of Chinese history and culture. Many top scholars in Chinese historiography have contributed to the writing, reviewing, and advisory work of this book. Professor Li Xueqin of Peking University, President of the Society for the Study of Pre-Qin History, serves as the Chief Consultant for this book. Renowned scholars such as Meng Shikai, Xu Zhuoyun, and Liu Xiuming serve as the chief editors or consultants for individual volumes, infusing their years of academic research into the book. At the same time, the planning editors of this series have boldly explored ways to greatly enhance the modern awareness of Chinese history books. They aim to not only truly "transmit" history but also pay attention to the changing ways and interests of modern readers in seeking knowledge. The books integrate narrative-style text reading, exquisite and delicate image appreciation, and convenient and practical retrieval functions, creating a unique book format that bridges high-end reading materials and popular publications. Readers can enjoy the aesthetic pleasure brought by stories while also exploring the profound wisdom of history. The book collects over 3,000 images, including photographs of cultural relics, reconstructed illustrations of historical sites, historical maps and diagrams, perspective views, and scenes of scientific archaeological excavations. It also extensively uses keyword retrieval methods widely used on computer networks, revealing the core of the stories through keywords. The Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were a great era of liberation in Chinese history. In the development of literature, there is a clear fact: the decline of poetry and the rise of prose. In the early years of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the foreign political relations of the countries can be roughly divided into three types: one is the relationship between the Huaxia and the Yi-Di, two is the relationship between the feudal lords and the Zhou, and three is the relationship between the feudal lords themselves. During the process of gradual decline of the aristocratic class in the Spring and Autumn period, those who knew etiquette and had knowledge were often in lower positions, while those who did not know etiquette and lacked knowledge were in higher positions. However, those who truly had knowledge ultimately achieved a brilliant Spring and Autumn period.