The Research About Espionage In The Spring And Autumn Period

The Spring and Autumn Period is a important stage of development in ancientChinese a society.The contending for hegemony among vassal states,in the vassalstates,the struggle for power is getting worse among family of princes, between thefamily of princes and ministers,between ministers and ministers,this is the mainfeatures of the Spring and Autumn society.In order to achieve their strategic goalbetter,espionage be used widely in this period,and these activity sometimes play a keyrole in politics events.About espionage in the Spring and Autumn Period,there are some revant papers inacademics, but the papers some not rigorous others make espionage in the Spring andAutumn Period mixed with other period of history,and espionage in other period ofhistory as the subject of the papers. Investigate its reason,there are few record of “spy”and intuitive espionage in the historical records about the Spring and AutumnPeriod.The researchers need to analysis the historical events in historical records and incombination with definition of espionage to distinguish it is or not espionage,it makesintensity of work and error rate increase objectively.I divid spies in the Spring and Autumn Period into two part: full-time spy andtemporary spy.The full-time spy who is recorded as “spy”in the historical records,theyare sent by vassal states to word in other vassal states.There are few record about thispart.The subject of spies in the Spring and Autumn Period is temporary spy.Temporaryspy is who has have a public identity then appointed in accordance with the othersto commit espionage,thus access to identity of temporary spy.The members oftemporary spy cover all levels in the Spring and Autumn Social, we can found therecords about monarch’s wives,ministers,doctors,servants, thieves, prisoner,envoise commit espionage.Someone of them rely on the public identity for the coverand the others rely on skills and experience to finish leader’s goal.The species of espionage in the Spring and Autumn Period is very rich, basicallysame to today. We can found investigation, stealing intelligence, assassination, lurker,spreading runmors,alienation and other espionage in the historical records. The espionage in the Spring and Autumn Period develop from primitive and XiaDynasty,Shang Dynasty,Zhou Dynasty,it inherit some characteristics of beforedynasties,based on characteristics of the Spring and Autumn Period develop veryfast.Throughout espionage in the Spring and Autumn Period,I summary severalcharacteristics:First,the espionage in the Spring and Autumn Period focus on thepolitical field;Second, the most of espionage in the Spring and Autumn Period possesstimeliness;Thrid,the most of spies come from the upper class;Fourth,assassination is alarge proportion of espionage in the Spring and Autumn Period.The espionage in the Spring and Autumn Period have an affect on Spring andAutumn Social,reflect in following aspects:the impact on contending for hegemonyamong vassal states. The espionage in the Spring and Autumn Period service politics,espionage have an impact on the activity of hegemony and power;Due to frequentespionage,the attention is more and more high;In the late of Spring and AutumnPeriod the book about theory of espionage Military Science Of Sun Zi Paper of SpierUsed be written,it summaries the importance of espionage in the Spring and AutumnPeriod and before Dynasty and expound the ways about using spies,it produce profoundimpact to later generations.