Elaboration in the Spring and Autumn Period
The Spring and Autumn Period is the historical stage of the first half of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in China. The historical period from 770 BC to 476 BC is called the Spring and Autumn Period. Historian Lu records the major events of various countries at that time by year, season, month and day, which are recorded in spring, summer, autumn and winter in a year. In a word, he named this chronicle Spring and Autumn Annals.
The Spring and Autumn Period began in 770 BC when Zhou Pingwang moved eastward to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in the first year of Zhou Pingwang, and ended on Thursday, 476 BC, when he was fourteen years old, on the eve of the Warring States Period, for a total of 295 years. It is said that in 453 BC, Han, Zhao and Wei wiped out Zhi. The other is that it ended in 403 BC and the three tribes were divided into Jin.