A Comment on The Spring and Autumn Annals and Zuo Zhuan

The case that Confucius wrote The Spring and Autumn Annals was recorded in a way of stressing the main points and in detail in four sections of Records of the Grand Historian. It is not difficult to find out that to Si Ma- qian's mind The Spring and Autumn Annals written by Confucius is not The Original of the Spring and Autumn Annals , but the Confucius' Records of the Grand Historian, i.e. Confucius' Spring and Autumn Annals on condition that we analyze these records with the data concerned. The case of Zuo Qiu - ruing's commenting on The Spring and Autumn Annals can't be found in the records of the Pre - Qin era and have no grounds in the history. It was fabricated by the Confucians in Han Dynasty specially the Gong Yang School and so unbelievable. The textual criticism of The Textual Criticism of the Spring and Autumn Annals can withstand the examine. Its academic value and contribution should be respected and affirmed while the attitude of blindly obliterating them is unreliable.