Original text

In the spring of the eleventh year, the commander-in-chief of the State of Qi visited me.

In the summer, Chen Yuanpo left for Zheng.

In May, Guild Wu attacked Qi. In Jiaxu, Qi State Secretary Shushuai and Wu fought in Ailing. The entire army was defeated. Received Qi's national letter.

Autumn, July, Xinyou, Tengzi and Yu’s mother died.

In winter, in the eleventh month, Teng Yin was buried.

Uncle Wei Shiqi left for the Song Dynasty.

Translation

In the spring of the eleventh year of Duke Ai of Lu. The great secretary of Qi State led the army to attack Lu State.

In summer, Yuan Po, the official of Chen State, fled to Zheng State.

In May, Lu Ai and Wu State sent troops to attack Qi State. On the day of Jiaxu, the official Guoshu of Qi led his army to fight with the Wu army at Ailingda. The Qi army was defeated. The official certificate of Qi State was captured.

In autumn, in January and July, on the day of Xinyou, Teng Zi and Yu’s mother died.

Erji, November. Burying Duke Teng Yin

Shishu Qi, the official of the Wei State, fled to the Song Dynasty.

Extended reading: The famous sayings of "Gongyang Zhuan" through the ages

1. The hungry sing about their food, and the tired sing about their work.

From "Gongyang Zhuan·Xuan Gong Fifteenth Year". Hungry people naturally sing about their desire to eat, and tired people naturally sing about their hard work.

2. The few people are unscrupulous and the ministers who are on the sidelines are doing it to cause disasters, which makes the king rich and humiliating the city.

From "Gongyang Zhuan·Xuan Gong 10th Anniversary" Two years." This is what Zheng Xianggong said when he surrendered. The general idea is: I am an incompetent petty official guarding a border town. I offended God and caused disaster. Let your anger linger and condescend to come to our small and remote country from a far away place.

3. Wushen, accepted in the temple. Why book? ridicule. Why are you scoffing? So he accepted bribes indiscriminately and accepted them in the big temple, which was disrespectful.

From "Gongyang Zhuan·Xuan Gong Twelve Years". On the day of Wushen, the great cauldron from the tribe was sent to the Ancestral Temple of Lu. Why did "Spring and Autumn" write about this incident? For condemnation. What to condemn? This was to condemn Duke Huan of Lu for taking advantage of the chaos to collect bribes and move the bribes into the Ancestral Temple, which was against etiquette and law.

4. When a gentleman sees someone’s misfortune, he will restrain it; when a villain sees someone’s misfortune, he will be lucky.

From "Gongyang Zhuan·Xuan Gong Fifteenth Year". A gentleman will feel pity when someone is in trouble, while a villain will only take pleasure in others' misfortune.

5. To bring order to the troubled times and oppose the righteousness, do not approach the Spring and Autumn Annals.

From "The Biography of Gongyang: The Fourteenth Year of Ai Gong". There is no book like "Spring and Autumn" that can bring order to troubled times and bring them back to the right path.

6. Change the child and eat it, dissect the body and cook it.

From "Gongyang Zhuan·Xuan Gong Fifteenth Year". When food and firewood were cut off, the people exchanged children to use as food, and cut up their corpses to use as firewood for cooking.

7. Kill people in order to survive, and kill people in order to survive. A gentleman does not do this.

From "Gongyang Zhuan·The Eleventh Year of Duke Huan". A gentleman will not do this in exchange for his own survival by destroying others.

8. When a gentleman sees someone’s misfortune, he will be grateful for it; when a villain sees someone’s misfortune, he will be lucky.

From "Gongyang Zhuan·Xuan Gong Fifteenth Year". A gentleman will express his sympathy when he sees others in trouble, and a villain will gloat when he sees others in trouble.

9. No matter how noble or humble you are, you don’t mind the same name, and you don’t mind the same words when you are good or evil.

From "The Legend of Gongyang: The Seventh Year of Yin Gong". The noble and the humble do not dislike the same title; the beautiful and the evil do not dislike the same saying. Metaphor means looking at the essence and not focusing on the name.

10. Since there have been great officials, why not? Xu Yi and Di are not the same.

From "Gongyang Zhuan·Wen Gong Ninth Year". Why don't you call it a family name? Because he is a barbarian. The ancient Chu State was regarded as a barbarian land, and their officials were not recognized by the people of the Central Plains.