The Study Of The Stories Of Spring And Autumn Period In Lv's Spring And Autumn Annals

During the Warring States period,in order to explain and prove their own ideas,philosophers often quoted various kinds of stories for reasoning.Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals are typical examples of such works.All kinds of stories in Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals can be divided into legendary age stories,Xia?Shang and Western Zhou Dynasty stories,stories of Spring and Autumn and stories of Warring States period.The stories of Spring and Autumn are the most abundant part in Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals,and also the part that best reflects the author's intention to write a book.The protagonist in the story of the Spring and Autumn period is the Overlord of the Spring and Autumn period,?wise emperors and the virtuous ministers who assisted them.The author quotes the story of these people many times,so that readers can see the unique quality of the virtuous monarch and virtuous ministers.The stories of Qi Huangong?Guan Zhong?Jin Wengong?Qin Mugong and Zhao Jianzi are quoted for many times in the book,which makes the images of these sages more prominent.The author uses their stories to show his ideal image of monarch and minister and his ambition to assist the monarch to unify the world.Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals,as a representative work of miscellaneous schools,has absorbed the thoughts of all kinds of school in per Pin period,Confucius and his disciples are the most frequently appeared scholars in Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals.They show the images of Confucius?Yan Hui?Zi Lu?Zi Xia etc,with stories.They quote Confucian classics many times in the book,which shows the author's praise for Confucianism.At the end of the Warring States period,storytelling has become a fashion.Story is an important part in the works of the Warring States period,and a powerful "general material" library has been formed,causing the situation that the same cases are used in different books.Most of the stories in Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals are found in other ancient books of the pre Qin period.The stories of Spring and Autumn period in Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals can be found in Zuozhuan,Guoyu,Guanzi,Yanzi Spring and Autumn Annals,Zhuangzi and other books.The content and sentences of the stories in the text of using the same cases are very similar with the other ancient books,and even the texts in the relevant books are basically alike.It can be seen that the authors refer to the recordation in Zuozhuan,Guoyu,Guanzi,Yanzi Chunqiu,Zhuangzi and other books when they wrote these books.These ancient books that were written earlier than Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals are the source of the stories in it.