Maps of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period

The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period are divided into the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The watershed was in 453 BC, when Han, Zhao and Wei wiped out Zhi's family and carved up the State of Jin.

in the spring and autumn period, politically, all kinds of reforms and political reforms were continuously connected, while the countries that successfully carried out political reforms became stronger. Through such political changes, slavery eventually died out and the emerging feudal system was gradually established.

The Warring States (476 BC, 453 BC or 43-221 BC) was called the Warring States by later generations.

the eastern Zhou dynasty was destroyed by Qin in the late warring States period (256 BC), so the warring States period was not completely included in the eastern Zhou dynasty in time. In 334 BC, Xuzhou was the prime minister, and in 323 BC, the five kingdoms were the queens, and all the major governors arrogated to themselves the title of king (Wu, Yue and Chu were already kings in the Spring and Autumn Period), and the authority of the king of Zhou was further damaged.

The Warring States Period and the Spring and Autumn Period before it were all re-divided by later historians into the historical period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The name "Warring States Period" was taken from the Warring States Policy compiled and annotated by Liu Xiang in the Western Han Dynasty. With the development of time, this view has been perfected and supplemented by its supporters. The major historical events before the first 43 years were the destruction of Wu by Gou Jian, the king of Yue, in 473 BC, and the division of Jin among the three families in 43 BC.

At present, the viewpoint of Historical Records has been adopted by most people because it includes the above important historical events. The end of the Warring States Period was the unification of China in Qin Dynasty (221 BC).

Extended materials

The name Chunqiu (77 BC-476 BC) was named after Chunqiu, a chronicle of Lu State. It is said that Chunqiu was revised by Confucius, but there are still many questions about this in academic circles, and there is no unified view. This book records the history from the year of Luyin (722 BC) to the fourteenth year of Lu Aigong (481 BC), which is * * * 242 years.

For convenience, post-historians generally start from the founding of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in the first year of Zhou Pingwang (77 BC) to the forty-third year (477 BC) or forty-fourth year (476 BC) of Zhou Jingwang (some scholars think that it should be the end recorded in Zuo Zhuan (468 BC), the extinction of the three schools (453 BC) or the separation of the three schools (43 BC). The Spring and Autumn Period was followed by the Warring States Period.

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