鲁国 / Lu State
鲁国 / Lu State appears in 《资治通鉴·周纪》07丨两起刺杀（2） through a 394 BCE notice: 齐国 attacks Lu and occupies Zui, located southeast of present-day Qufu in the source’s geography.
The page is source-scoped. Lu’s role here is a territorial-war notice in the episode’s broader claim that early 战国时期 conflict is becoming faster and more frequent.
《资治通鉴·周纪》08丨一代名将吴起惨死（3） adds another Qi-Lu pressure notice in 385 BCE: 齐国 attacks Lu while Tian-family Qi is still consolidating after formal recognition. The episode uses the notice as part of the broader conflict field, not as a developed Lu-centered narrative.
《资治通鉴·周纪》09丨战国时代的世界大战 adds a compact 377 BCE succession notice: 鲁穆公 dies and his son Ji Fen succeeds as 鲁共公. The same episode’s 子思 biography also keeps the Confucian branch near Lu’s cultural setting.
《资治通鉴·周纪》10丨 以家族单位 有蚂蚁吃大象的精神（1） adds Lu’s 373 BCE attack on 齐国 and occupation of Yangguan, one of several quick war notices in 周烈王’s early reign.
《资治通鉴·周纪》15丨酒不醇引发的世界大战 adds Lu’s 355 BCE succession from 鲁共公 to 鲁康公. It also gives Lu an outsized causal role through the 鲁酒薄而邯郸围 story: Lu Gong Gong’s late attendance, poor wine, and refusal to apologize anger 楚宣王, causing Chu and 齐国 to attack Lu and creating the strategic distraction that 魏国 reads before besieging 邯郸.
《资治通鉴·周纪》18丨中国历史上第一例人头税 adds another compact succession notice. In 346 BCE 鲁康公 dies, and his son succeeds as 鲁景公.
《资治通鉴·周纪》57丨古代发毒誓还有这作用？ adds an earlier rescue story through 子贡 / 端木赐. When 齐国 plans to attack Lu, 孔子 sends Zigong, who saves Lu indirectly by redirecting the conflict through 吴国, 越国, and 晋国. Lu’s role here is the weak state whose survival depends on 多国连锁外交 rather than direct military resistance.
《资治通鉴·周纪》75-2丨“穷奢极侈”的祖师爷管仲 adds an earlier Spring-Autumn scandal branch. 鲁桓公 is killed during a visit to 齐国 after 齐襄公 and 文姜’s scandal, making Lu the harmed neighboring state in the disorder that precedes 管仲’s reforms.
《资治通鉴·周纪》75-3丨古代的经济战争能有多可怕？ returns Lu to the Guan Zhong branch as an economic-war target. The episode says 齐国 makes Lu gauze fashionable and suppresses its own Qi silk, causing Lu and 梁国 to chase cloth income and neglect grain production. When Qi later cuts off the market, Lu faces food-price pressure, population flight, and eventual submission.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》99-2｜明明一脸“败相”的蔡泽 凭什么拜相 adds Lu’s cultural afterlife after military loss. The episode says 楚国 takes 兰陵 / Lanling while Qin is occupied elsewhere, but emphasizes that Lu’s ritual and scholar tradition does not disappear with territorial control. That is why 黄歇 / 春申君’s appointment of 荀子 matters as cultural pacification.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》99-4｜谁是孔子后最伟大的思想家？ adds the sharper terminal notice. The source says Chu occupies Lu, sends Lu’s ruler into exile at Ju, and leaves Lu’s land absorbed while the state exists only in name. This turns the earlier Lanling cultural-pacification branch into part of Lu’s political afterlife: Lu’s ritual prestige and scholar world remain meaningful even as its territorial sovereignty collapses.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》102-1｜吕不韦是姜子牙后人？ sharpens the terminal step again. The episode says 楚国 destroys Lu, moves Lu Qing Gong from Ju to Biancheng, and makes him a commoner. It also stresses that Lu did not disappear early in the Warring States story; it survived until about twenty-five years before Qin’s final annexation wars, making Lu one of the last old enfeoffed states still visible in the annalistic field.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》102-2｜孔子在鲁国的身世之谜 explains that late survival instead of merely restating it. The episode treats Lu as culturally powerful because of its closeness to the 周王室, its record-keeping role, and its link to 孔子’s access to historical materials. This creates 史官记录话语权 even though Lu is militarily weak.
The same source makes Lu a case of 小国因大国无暇而存续. Qin, Han, Zhao, and Wei are busy in the western war field, 燕国 is too distant, and 齐国 is too damaged and isolationist under 齐王建 / 田建 and 后胜 to act. 楚国 therefore becomes the actor with both restored capacity and eastern-expansion appetite to destroy Lu. The source also creates a chronology tension by associating Lu’s destruction and Eastern Zhou’s terminal episode with a Qin Zhaoxiang Wang fifty-second-year frame, while Qinji 102-1 places Eastern Zhou’s destruction under 秦庄襄王.
Connections
- 齐国 - attacker in the source notice.
- Early Warring States Interstate War / 战国早期诸侯混战 - frame for repeated sparse attack notices involving Lu.
- Territorial Control Churn / 城池反复易手 - adjacent concept for repeated conflict over cities and borderland.
- 战国时期 - period setting.
- 鲁穆公, 鲁共公, and 子思 - Zhouji 09 succession and Confucian branch.
- 齐国, 卫国, and 燕国 - Zhouji 10 attack cluster.
- 鲁共公, 鲁康公, 楚宣王, 魏国, 邯郸, and 鲁酒薄而邯郸围 - Zhouji 15 succession and wine-triggered interstate chain.
- 鲁康公 and 鲁景公 - Zhouji 18 succession notice.
- 子贡 / 端木赐, 孔子, 吴国, 越国, 晋国, and 多国连锁外交 - Zhouji 57 rescue branch.
- 鲁桓公, 齐襄公, 文姜, and 公子彭生 - Zhouji 75-2 and related Zuo Zhuan scandal branch.
- 梁国, 管仲, 需求诱导式弃农, 粮食与封边胁迫, and 跨国经济战 - Zhouji 75-3 textile-war branch.
- 楚国, 黄歇 / 春申君, 荀子, 兰陵 / Lanling, and 占领区怀柔治理 - Qinji 99 part 2 former Lu cultural territory under Chu administration.
- 周王室 and 战国时期 - Qinji 99 part 4 old-order collapse frame around Lu’s nominal survival.
- Qinji 102-1 and 楚国 - Lu Qing Gong’s final demotion to commoner and Lu’s late survival note.
- 史官记录话语权, 小国因大国无暇而存续, 后胜, and Qinji 102-2 - Lu’s record authority and external-timing explanation for late survival and destruction.