"Lü Shi Chunqiu" was produced in the late Warring States period, and was compiled by Qin Xiang Lü Buwei to compile the doctrine of the Hundred Families and Nine Streams, and the content was mixed, and there were many Taoist, Confucian, and Yin-Yang ideas. Different from the pure doctrine of each school, while miscellaneous schools are used for their own use, they have also undergone certain development and transformation, so that they constitute a unique theoretical system.
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Lü's Spring and Autumn
"Lü Shi Chunqiu" was produced in the late Warring States period, and was compiled by Qin Xiang Lü Buwei to compile the doctrine of the Hundred Families and Nine Streams, and the content was mixed, and there were many Taoist, Confucian, and Yin-Yang ideas. Different from the pure doctrine of each school, while miscellaneous schools are used for their own use, they have also undergone certain development and transformation, so that they constitute a unique theoretical system. It also indicates that in the imminent emergence of the Great Unified Dynasty of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the hundred schools of thought of the Sons and Hundred Schools also appeared from the integration and unification trend of division to integration.
When Lü Buwei was the Face of Qin, he solicited 3,000 disciples and collected 161 articles of "Eight Views", "Six Treatises", and "Twelve Chronicles", with more than 200,000 words, which were combined into "Lü's Spring and Autumn". This book is clearly organized and eclectic, skillfully integrating the ideas of each school into its own theoretical framework, and the literary concepts it expresses have surpassed those of the pre-Qin dynasties. According to legend, Lü Buwei once published the "Lü's Spring and Autumn" at the xianyang city gate, and if the guests could increase or lose a word, they would be rewarded with thousands of gold.
Because "Lü's Spring and Autumn" is composed by many people, the style is not uniform, but some of the articles are concise and short, and the style is simple and smooth, which can still be called excellent literary prose. For example, in the "Heavy Self" section, we first start with the finger that people do not love others but love themselves, and people do not love the jade of Kunshan but love the jade of themselves, and talk about the importance of life in depth layer by layer; in the "Noble Prince" chapter, it is said that "the saints rule the world, and they must first be fair", first put forward the argument, and then explain it with examples such as the remains of the Jing people and the Huan Gong Ask Guan Zhong. In addition, the creation and use of fables is also very mature and sophisticated. For example, in the "Cha Jin" section, in order to reflect the proposition of changing the law according to the times, the fable story of "carving a boat and seeking a sword" is used. The fables in the book are vivid and concise, the center is prominent, and the meaning is often broken at the end, which makes people feel an epiphany.
Lü Buwei once declared in this book "Preface": "All those who are in the Twelve Ages, so the Ji rule chaos and survive, so they know that Shou Yu Ji Ji is also fierce." The heavens of the upper, the place of the lower examination, the middle judgment, if this is not necessary, there must be nothing to hide. From this point of view, "Lü Shi Chunqiu" is the product of Lü Buwei's intention to compete with the princes in cultural ideology by relying on the qin state's national momentum, and also has the good intention of providing basic theoretical preparations for the Qin state after unifying the world.