(Attributed to) Zuo Qiuming (556–451? BCE)

A historian and scholar in the State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period (770–476 BCE), Zuo Qiuming 左丘明 served as official chronicler in the court of Lu and was probably a contemporary, or near contemporary, of Kongzi 孔子. Discourses of the States 國語 (Guoyu) was said to be one of his works. ³⁰