东周国 / Eastern Zhou Polity
东周国 / Eastern Zhou polity appears in 《资治通鉴·周纪》16丨孙膑庞涓恩怨纠葛 桂陵之战 as the target of a 韩国 attack in 353 BCE. The episode distinguishes this small polity from the broader Eastern Zhou historical period by explaining that the weakened 周王室 realm had split into eastern and western Zhou governments.
The page is source-scoped. Its role is to keep the episode’s “韩攻东周” notice from being flattened into dynasty-period language. It belongs with 西周国 and 东周西周分裂 as evidence of the royal house’s territorial and political contraction.
《资治通鉴·周纪》76丨谁给了楚顷襄王的自信？ returns to the naming issue while explaining why 周赧王 can send 东周武公 and yet be associated with 西周国. The episode stresses that this late use of East/West Zhou is a split-polity question inside the old royal domain, not the same thing as the broad Eastern Zhou era.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》102-1｜吕不韦是姜子牙后人？ gives Eastern Zhou its terminal source branch. The episode says the Eastern Zhou ruler secretly plots with other lords against 秦国, after which 秦庄襄王 sends 吕不韦 to destroy the polity and move its ruler to Yangren. The source treats this as the point where the 周王室’s royal sacrifices finally end.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》102-2｜孔子在鲁国的身世之谜 references the same terminal field but with a chronology tension. It places Qin’s destruction of Eastern Zhou and the movement of the 九鼎 to Qin in a Qin Zhaoxiang Wang fifty-second-year frame while explaining why 鲁国 is destroyed by 楚国. The wiki keeps this as a source-scoped mismatch with the prior Qinji 102-1 Zhuangxiang-year framing.
Connections
- 周王室 - broader royal frame.
- 西周国 and Eastern-Western Zhou Split / 东周西周分裂 - paired polity and split pattern.
- 韩国 - attacking state in the source.
- 周显王 and 战国时期 - annalistic and period context.
- 东周武公, 周赧王, and 周王室象征威慑 - Zhouji 76 late royal-domain clarification and diplomatic defense.
- 秦庄襄王, 吕不韦, 秦国, and Qinji 102-1 - final destruction after anti-Qin plotting.
- 九鼎, 秦昭襄王, 鲁国, and Qinji 102-2 - source-scoped alternate terminal chronology.