Discuss His Gentleman's Personality Style From "Zuo Zhuan" Betrothal Gift

“Rites are different,music is the same”,Zhou Tianzi hopes that the Zhou Dynasty will reach a highly civilized social condition by formulating a detailed and complete system of rites and music.Among them,the ceremony of “less than one year's diplomatic visit and more than three years' diplomatic visit”aims to educate the public to be able to “show great or small”,”devote to respect and humility”,“show principle between the monarch and minister” and “pay more attention to ceremony and less money” in order to achieve a peaceful and stable social situation of “no invasion from outside and no military use from inside”.The diplomatic visit in Master Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals inherits and develops the characteristics of the Western Zhou Dynasty's banquet and etiquette and the benefits of diplomatic exchanges in the Warring States period which are rich and profound in content and endless in flavor.The article summarizes the word “diplomatic” appearing in Master Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals.On this basis,the article makes statistics and analysis on the number and content of “gentleman” appearing in Master Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals,and divides the meaning of gentleman into four categories.Through mutual demonstration with the “gentleman” characters in Master Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals,this paper elaborates on the political purpose achieved by each country's officials and the personality style embodied in the process of engagement.Finally,taking the development and change of the meaning of the word “ gentleman” in the Pre—Qin Period as a clue based on the documents such as Shangshu,The Book of Songs,The Analects of Confucius,the Master Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals,and the Warring States Policy,this paper analyzes the specific content of the change of the meaning of the word “gentleman” and the social and historical reasons for the change,discusses whether the country's rulers attach importance to morality and righteousness,and whether the sage advocates morality and character are the important reasons for the change of the word “gentleman” above documents in detail.