| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 中國文學研究所 === 101 === This thesis analyzes the uses and interpretations of canons（典）and historical events（故）in ZuoZhuan and Guoyu. The first chapter discusses the background of the trend of quoting canons and historical events in argumentations during the Spring and Autumn period. Then the major part of this thesis is divided into two sections: the chapter two and three focus on the uses and interpretations of canons, which are Yi, Shi and Shu; whereas the chapter four and five are concerned with the historical events, which covered ancient kings, mythical stories, and the famed ancestors of Zhou dynasty, were told and might have been changed in different argumentations.
The former section, firstly discusses on the different types of referencing canons in ZuoZhuan and Guoyu. Secondly, basing on aforementioned analyses, points out the remarkable features: （1） although people in the Spring and Autumn period had already shown respect to these canons, the text of Yi, Shi and Shu were still used and understood circumstantially and without fixed meaning. （2） The canons were not only used as a rhetorical method quoted in discourses, but also played an important role in the narrative in ZuoZhuan and Guoyu. Thirdly, it compares the accounts of canons in ZuoZhuan and Guoyu with Pre-Qin scholarly work which also references the same ones.The later section, which centers on historical events, firstly distinguishes out the different types, purposes and context in which the historical events were cited. Secondly, it analyzes how the historical events were modified and cater to the listeners’ background and needs. Also it discusses how the people’s conception of history and paragon were changed or even replaced with new ones in this turbulent period when the Zhou dynasty was declining.
In the conclusion, through observing the variety of citing canons and historical events in argumetations, we can see how the values were gradually transformed from the Spring and Autumn period toward the Warring States period. Also we can see how the author（s） of ZuoZhuan and Guoyu orchestrated both the quotations, argumentations and historiography with an ingenious narrative, which made them the macrocosm of the Pre-Qin literature.
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