Zuo Qiuming, an official historian of Lu at the end of the Spring and Autumn period,

returned to his hometown, Hengyu village in his late years.

He wrote two great works“Zuo zhuan” and“Guoyu”

and is regarded as the“the ancestor of Chinese history”.

“The book of Shandong Tongshi. pre-qin” records

list Zuo Qiuming as the twenty-first generation of JiaZiya.

His old haunt is in Feicheng County,

and his ancestral tombs are all in Hengyu village Feicheng, Shandong province.

After the death of Zuo Qiuming,

the local people have been thinking constantly of this modest gentleman.

His legendary life,

great works and relics

were given new cultural connotations,

and people deduced legendary stories such as“Zuo Qiuming jian sheng”

“A place with an arrow”

“Spring and autumn gingko”

and“ Shui yan shu jian”

to express gratitude and commemorate.

After the Han dynasty,

the influence of“Zuo zhuan” and“Guo yu”

on the world has highlighted.

Many emperors

local officials

and cultural scholars

began to pay attention to Zuo Qiuming

and his enormous contributions to Chinese history.

They all erected monuments, wrote biographies

gave him a title and a plaque,

revised records and built temples.

Celebrity’s benefits bring about

the arguments of the origin of Zuo qiuming’s family name,

and native place.

And the people and events related to him

are also interpreted by the local people as well-known legends

that have been passed down.

They become masterpieces heard and well remembered at people’s leisure

and familiar to every family,

which serve as an example to educate future generations

and let more young people

sense and understand

Zuo Qiuming’s great contributions to Chinese history and culture

and the endless charming of Chinese traditional culture.

（Source: Publicity Department of Feicheng Municipal Party Committee）