The Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals

The cosmological and political masterpiece that turned Confucianism into the bedrock ideology of imperial China. Attributed to the 2nd-century BCE philosopher and court official Dong Zhongshu, the Chunqiu Fanlu spans 82 chapters bridging historical interpretation, political philosophy, and the correlative cosmology of yin, yang and the Five Phases.

The ritual codes, philosophical discourses, educational primers and religious classics that shaped Chinese civilization for over two millennia. Where the narrative classics tell China’s stories, these texts encode its institutions, its ethics and its inner life.