An Assay On The Relationship Between The Narrative Discourse Of ZuoZhuan And Its Interpretation About ChunQiu's Description Of The Events Of Murdering Monarch

ZuoZhuan is a controversial ancient book. The past and latest scholars have had great disputes and disagreements on issues concerning who the author was, when it was completed and its relation with ChunQiu, etc.An important issue of these disputes is the relation between the narration and interpretation in ZuoZhuan. Scholars who insist that ZuoZhuan is an interpretation of ChunQiu emphasize the relation of cooperation between them. Scholars who insist that ZuoZhuan was an unique historical book point out that it is not cooperative between them and the interpretation in ZuoZhuan must come out of later hands.This paper does not want to show preference to any of them. We agree that the narration of ZuoZhuan is very important to explain ChunQiu, but with many case analyses we discover that there is a tense relation between the narration and the interpretation about murdering monarch in ZuoZhuan. This proves that it is really not very cooperative between the narration and the interpretation in ZuoZhuan. There are different answers to explain this tense relation. We think it may be a very important reason that the narration can express the ideas of the narrator exclude of the interpretation due to characteristics of itself.