Lüshi Chunqiu (呂氏春秋)

Anales de Primavera y Otoño del Maestro Lu (Buwei) [Lüshi Chunqiu (呂氏春秋) Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals (Buwei)]

Julio López Saco (Translation, introduction, notes and commentary)

Fulvio Scarcia Maccorsi (Translation)

Anales de Primavera y Otoño del Maestro Lü [Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals] 呂氏春秋, comprises a collection of treatises on various cosmological issues from the final stage of the Warring States period, forming part of a court debate on what the imperial state ideology of Qin should be. This monumental work, well-organized and structured, contains passages on a wide variety of topics, such as mythology, music, geography, astronomy, and agriculture, alongside elements of Confucian and Daoist thought, as well as theories unique to the School of Names (Dialecticians), Legalists, Mohists, Agriculturalists, and Yin-Yang thinkers. It also constitutes an outstanding example of Chinese correlative thinking.

The following translation, which is a pioneer in the Spanish language, opens the threshold to ancient Chinese thought just a little further. It is an undisguised wish that through it, by reading and listening to the echo of the words of this classic compendium, the specialist or scholar as well as the general public may gain a profound yet accessible vision of a bygone era marked by an explosion of knowledge, but also by conflicts, wars, and disagreements.