Bribery In The Book Of Zuo Zhuan

Spring and Autumn period was a disorder times. The old system since Western Zhou Dynasty collapsed gradually and the new system is gestating. Zuo Zhuan recorded some bribe phenomena which emerged in political, diplomatic and military activities among and in countries, and bribe became a very prominent social phenomenon at that time. Because of historical features, the certain circumstances and other reasons, these bribe acts are rich variety and in different types. This article will be divided into six chapters explore bribery nature, type, features, effects and other related derivative.In the first chapter bribe is defined. In this chapter, we explain the meaning of bribe and define bribery in the book of Zuo Zhuan . This chapter first begin from inspecting the original idea of bribe and its original meaning is property or leaving property with no commending or criticizing. We define bribe according Spring and Autumn era features and bribery in the book of Zuo Zhuan . In Spring and Autumn era, bribe prevailing in the political, military and other activities is different from award ceremony in normal ritual activities, concreted into utilitarian nature and criminal nature bribe.Chapter 2 focused on the types of bribe reflected in the Zuo Zhuan. According to the motives and interests bribery is broadly divided into the following main types of manifestations: 1, Bribery in military activities. Features of the war in Spring and Autumn period decided that power rivalry needs great leaders situation and war is not doom his country. 2, Bribery in power rivalry. In Spring and Autumn period, Zhou royal declined, losing the ability to control countries. Power rivalry intensified in countries. For the process of obtaining advantages and victory hierarchy tend to use means of bribery roping expand its own strength. 3, Bribery decayed from award...