Tso chuan 左傳 is the one of the most important classical text in the Pre-Qin Period of China. It is a cyclopaedia of the Spring and Autumn Period, also the basic material which used by us to probe into the literature evolvement status of the Spring and Autumn Period. Based on studies made by previous and contemporary scholars and using the method of expounding, the thesis strive to discuss the basic visage of the literature and literature active in the Spring and Autumn Period. Firstly, the thesis had discussed a lot of basic essentials on the formative of the literature and literature active in the Spring and Autumn Period. From the aspect of language essential, Chinese had been competent for the function of literature language after the evolvement from Oracle-Bone Inscription to Bronze Inscription, from Shang shu 沿书 to Shi jing 诗经. From the aspect of originator essential, although the maharajas and aristocrats were still the principal part of the writers, the underlayer bachelors and the folk singers had become the important writer colony. From the as(?)ect of the literature sense and sensibility essential, the history sense had been strengthened in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the temporal sensibility had been even important in the minds of peoples of that period. As to the last essential, the thesis demonstrated separately by the review on the histoy officer's evolutive and the study on the Brozen Inscription of the Spring and Autumn Period. After that, the thesis had divided the literature and literature active in the Spring and Autumn Period by stages. The twelve Dukes of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period could be divided into three stages by four Dukes per stage. There are latency stage, develop stage and prosper stage. The thesis had discussed each stage's political and era background, the representative literature personality, and the visage of literature active which incarnated in reciting poems, and the basic character of each stage. Finally, the thesis had divided the the literature and literature active in the Spring and Autumn Period by clime. According the standard such as geography, custom, history origin and literature character, the literature in the Spring and Autumn Period could be compartmentalize into three genre: Qi 齐 and Lu 鲁 style, Jin 晋 and Zheng 郑 style, Qin 秦 and Chu 楚 style. The thesis had study the each style's character and specialty. From the origin to the development, the time to the space, the thesis had depicted the basic visage of the literature and literature active in the Spring and Autumn Period.
【关键词 (中文/英文)】 春秋时代; 文学; 文学活动; 分期; 流派 the Spring and Autumn Period; literature; literature active; by stages; genre
