Which dynasty was the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty?
The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period belong to the whole Eastern Zhou Dynasty at the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is an eventful autumn.
What is the origin of the Spring and Autumn Period in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period?
Lu historians recorded the major events reported by various countries at that time by year, season, month and day, and recorded them in spring, summer, autumn and winter in a year. In a word, they named this chronicle Spring and Autumn Annals. Confucius compiled and revised the Spring and Autumn Annals compiled by Lu historians and became one of the Confucian classics. "Spring and Autumn Annals" recorded an important event of ***242 years from the year of Lu Yinnian (722 BC) to the fourteenth year of Duke Xiang of Lu (4865438 BC+0 BC).
Because the historical facts recorded in it are roughly equivalent to an objective historical development period, historians of all dynasties have used the title of Spring and Autumn Annals as the name of this historical period.
For the convenience of narration, the Spring and Autumn Period began in 770 BC (the first year of Zhou Pingwang) when Zhou Pingwang moved eastward to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and ended in 476 BC (the forty-fourth year of Zhou Dynasty) on the eve of the Warring States Period, with a total of 295 years.
After the Spring and Autumn Period, the seven vassal states of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin fought for years. At that time, people called these seven vassal states "vassal states". Su Qin's younger brother, Su Dai, said in "The Warring States Policy Yance I": "Where there are seven warring states, Yan is weak."
It can be seen that the seven vassal States at that time all had the title of Warring States. By the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the meaning of the word "Warring States" had not changed. It was not until the end of the Western Han Dynasty that Liu Xiang compiled the book Warring States Policy that he began to use "Warring States" as the name of a specific historical period. The Warring States Period began in 475 BC (the first year of Zhou Yuanwang), began in the Chronicle of Six Countries in Historical Records, and ended in 2265438 BC (the 26th year of Qin Dynasty). Qin unified the six countries in 255 years.