Spring and Autumn

English Etymology en zh - 春秋 Chūnqiū, the attributive sense of zh 春秋時代 Spring and Autumn period Chūn–Qiū Shídài, derived from the name of its seminal history, the Confucian classic Spring and Autumn Annals. The title of the work reflected a common Chinese metonym, using "spring and autumn" to refer to the year as a whole. Adjective - Of, from, or related to a period of Chinese history during the first half of the Eastern Zhou dynasty, usually reckoned from its founding at Luoyang in 771 BC until the Partition of Jin in 403 BC, considered to have begun the Warring States period. Synonyms en Chunqiu en Ch'un-ch'iu (dated) Hypernyms en Eastern Zhou, en Later Zhou, en Zhou en coordinated pairs