The previous sentence of "Happiness will last forever": If you are virtuous, you will be happy.
"Zuo Zhuan" is based on "Spring and Autumn", and uses materials from other countries such as "Zhou Zhi", "Jin Cheng", "Zheng Shu", "Chu Chu", etc., by recording the specific historical facts of the Spring and Autumn Period. Explain the outline of "Spring and Autumn". Sima Qian's "Historical Records: Chronology of the Twelve Princes" said: "Zuo Qiu Ming, a gentleman of Lu, was afraid that all of his disciples would be heresy, and each would follow his own ideas and lose his truth. Therefore, because Confucius' historical records specifically discussed his words, he became the Zuo family in the Spring and Autumn Period."
Huan Tan's "New Theory" further believes: "The sutras and transmissions of "Zuo Shi" are like the outside and the inside of clothes, and they are inseparable. The sutras are not transmitted, so that the sage can't understand them after ten years of closed-door thinking. "Yang Bojun concluded in his article "Zuo Zhuan" that there are four ways in which "Zuo Zhuan" transmits the "Chun Qiu": namely, "explaining the calligraphy of the "Chun Qiu", supplementing the "Chun Qiu" with facts, and correcting the errors and additions of the "Chun Qiu". "Unscriptural biography"
About the author:
Zuo Qiu Ming (about 502 BC - about 422 BC) was the capital of the Lu state in Junzhuang (now Feicheng City, Shandong Province) in the late Spring and Autumn Period. A native of Hengyu Village in the east of Shiheng Town, his surname was Qiu and his given name was Ming. Because his father was the historian of Zuo, he was called Zuo Qiuming[6] (As for Zuo Qiuming’s name, it has long been due to the pre-Qin and Han dynasty literature’s reference to Zuo Qiu Ming. The records of the author Zuo Qiu Ming are very limited. Scholars in the past dynasties have argued endlessly about the situation of Zuo Qiu Ming's surname.
One theory is that the surname was Zuo Qiu and his given name was Ming; , but according to historical records, Zuo Qiu Ming is a descendant of Jiang Ziya. The direct descendant of the Sunqiu (Qiu) family is more reliable, and the collateral line of the Zuo family needs to be discussed). A historian, writer, thinker, essayist, and military strategist in the late Spring and Autumn Period. At the same time as Confucius or slightly younger than Confucius.