"Lu Shi Chun Qiu" is an ancient work written during the Warring States Period around 239 BC, written by Lu Buwei and his disciples.
"Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals" is a miscellaneous book compiled by Qin Prime Minister Lu Buwei at the end of the Warring States Period (around 221 BC), organized by his disciples. It is also known as "Lü Lan" and was written in 239 BC. It was the eve of Qin's unification of the six kingdoms. The book respects Taoism and affirms that Lao Tzu conforms to objective thoughts, but discards the negative elements.
At the same time, it integrated the strengths of Confucianism, Mohism, Legalism, and the military to form a theoretical system covering politics, economics, philosophy, morality, and military aspects. Lu Buwei's purpose is to synthesize the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought, summarize historical experience and lessons, and provide long-term state governance strategies for the future rule of Qin.
"Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals", also known as "Lü Lan", is a famous miscellaneous book compiled by disciples under the auspices of Lu Buwei, the Prime Minister of the Qin State. It was written on the eve of Qin Shihuang's unification of China.
This book is based on "Taoism" as its main body, and uses the thoughts and theories of famous schools, Legalists, Confucians, Mohists, farmers, military strategists, and Yin-Yang schools as materials. It melts the theories of hundreds of schools of thought into one furnace, sparkling with The light of profound wisdom. Lu Buwei wanted to use this as the ideology after the unification of Qin.
However, Qin Shihuang, who later came to power, chose Legalist thought, which frustrated all schools of thought, including Confucianism. "Lu's Spring and Autumn" is a collection of the culmination of pre-Qin Confucianism and a representative work of miscellaneous scholars in the late Warring States period. The whole book is divided into twenty-six volumes, one hundred and sixty chapters, and more than 200,000 words.
"Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" is divided into twelve chapters, eight readings, and six treatises. It focuses on learning from various schools of thought, with Taoism as the main body, and also draws on Yin and Yang, Confucianism, Mingfa, military and agricultural schools. A comprehensive and complete work based on the theory. Therefore, "Hanshu·Yiwenzhi" and others listed it in Zajia. Gao You said in "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" that "this book advocates morality as the goal and inaction as the guideline."