The Guoyu, usually translated as Discourses of the States, is an ancient Chinese text that consists of a collection of speeches attributed to rulers and other men from the Spring and Autumn period (771–476 BC).
[6] Guoyu overlaps with the period, people, events in the Zuo Zhuan.
[7] And during the end of the Han dynasty it was called the preface of the Zuo Zhuan.
Scholars like Xu Gan mention it in their work including the Balanced Discourses though the tradition died out.
[citation needed] It comprises eight books covering the Zhou court and seven of the feudal states, divided into 21 chapters: