Talk:Spring and Autumn Annals

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Comment[edit]

I moved this back from "Annals of Spring and Autumn", since although the latter may be more euphonious, "Spring and Autumn Annals" is the more commonly used English version. (4280 Google hits versus 559 for "Annals of Spring and Autumn"). Trampolineboy 22:42, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

My edits are carefully based on the reference I cited at the bottom of the article.Dragonbones 10:05, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article?[edit]

Does Qi Guo Chunqiu Houji (七國春秋後集) have an article? I need to know the most common English name for this continuation of the annals so I can look up more material on, which is connected to material I might be adding to a featured article. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 14:25, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Time[edit]

The article gives an unclear indication of the time setting of the book. What is BCE? The encyclopaedia should just stick to the standard calendar used worldwide; with 12 months, counting forwards from 1 A.D. and backwards from 1 B.C.Owen214 (talk) 03:34, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

BCE is "Before the Common Era" so 614 BCE = 614 BC. Both the BCE/CE and BC/AD systems of dating are acceptable in Wikipedia (see WP:MOS) but usage should be consistent throughout an article. For this article, BCE/CE is used - please do not change it. Philg88 (talk) 06:55, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An encyclopaedia shouldn't support naming fads, this term isn't in common use and seems to be just some poor attempt at spreading atheism and persecuting Christians. Nobody's going to join up with you and your fellow atheists just because you manipulate this term.Owen214 (talk) 00:31, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Spring and Autumn? discussion,[edit]

Hi there, there haven't been much information about this period in Chinese histories, as a person who loved ancient history (thank to video game)i would like to talk and discuss about this period with you guys.

I once read a book (yes it is the art of war "edited by some guy"), it talked about the Spring and Autumn period (this section of the book is not written by Sun Tzu or Sun Bin (for those who believed Sun Bin is the writer of the art of war, and Sun Tzu is his pen name)). The book talked about this period and why it was called the Spring and Autumn. It say during that time when the Chinese warlord march to war, he can only mobilized his army in Summer and Winter. This is because in Spring, the people are needed to work in their farm and in Autumn the people are needed to collect/ gather the plant and vegetable they grew in Spring (I'm sure that there is a better word to describe last sentence, I'm not a native English speaker so if my words or grammars make it hard to read or understand forgive me). Thus this two seasons cannot be used to fight a war. So during the Spring and Autumn period, the War lord march his army out to fight the enemy in Summer, after winning/ losing a battle they march the army home (preparing for autumn) and thus no real military accomplished is really achieved during this period. And so the book end up saying that this is why it is called the Spring and Autumn (however it did talk about the states starting to train a professional army which lead to the warring state or something).

What do you guy think?

(I don't have any good knowledge about Chinese history so please don't yell at me if I'm wrong, I just want to talk and I have nothing else to do cos I ran out of internet limit) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.217.78.182 (talk) 11:22, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to merge Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals into Spring and Autumn Annals#Commentaries (Implemented)[edit]

Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals is an unreferenced stub and has been so for years. Each of the three commentaries are listed in Spring and Autumn Annals#Commentaries, Thirteen Classics, and the "Confucian texts and Chinese classics" navbox. At all three of these locations the individual articles for each of the three commentaries is linked. Therefore, the article, Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals, is redundant.

I suggest what little information is unique to the redundant article be transferred to Spring and Autumn Annals#Commentaries. The article Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals can then be made into a redirect to the relevant article section.Scyrme (talk) 21:07, 17 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As no objections were raised, I have now implemented this merge. Scyrme (talk) 19:45, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]