周王室 / Zhou Royal House

《资治通鉴·周纪》04｜豫让 为智瑶复仇 adds the Zhou royal house as a still-meaningful source of formal rank. 周威烈王 recognizes 魏文侯, 赵烈侯, and 韩景侯 as vassals, bypassing the residual 晋国 ruler and turning the Three Jin houses into formally named polities.

周王室 / Zhou Royal House appears in 《资治通鉴·周纪》06丨魏文侯选谁当宰相呢（2） through the transition from 周威烈王 to 周安王. The source places this change around 402 BCE and describes the Zhou capital location in relation to Luoyang and White Horse Temple.

The page’s role is chronological and legitimating: even as the episode moves through powerful states such as 魏国, 燕国, and 楚国, the Zhou kingly sequence still structures the annalistic frame.

《资治通鉴·周纪》07丨两起刺杀（1） adds an internal-fracture branch through 王子定’s flight to 晋国. The source uses the case to explain how Zhou princes and other aristocratic exiles could draw on kinship and noble status outside their home court.

《资治通鉴·周纪》07丨两起刺杀（2） adds the incorporation side of Zhou legitimacy through 宋国 and 微子启: the prior Shang lineage can survive as a ritually honored guest within the Zhou order.

《资治通鉴·周纪》09丨战国时代的世界大战 adds the transition from 周安王 to 周烈王 in 376 BCE. The same source shows how the Zhou chronology still frames events even as the substantive power shifts to Han, Zhao, Wei, Qi, Chu, and the final partition of 晋国.

《资治通鉴·周纪》10丨 以家族单位 有蚂蚁吃大象的精神（1） adds a more active Zhou diplomatic role through 太史旦. The host reads Taishi Dan’s visit to 秦献公 as an attempt to stress old Zhou-Qin ties and pull 秦国 toward respect for Zhou legitimacy through kinship legitimacy diplomacy.

《资治通鉴·周纪》11丨 世界风起云涌（1） adds the ritual-recognition side of that Qin branch. After 秦献公 defeats the Three Jin coalition at 石门之战, 周显王 grants 黻服, letting Zhou ritual language recognize Qin’s battlefield status even while substantive power has shifted away from the royal house.

《资治通鉴·周纪》16丨孙膑庞涓恩怨纠葛 桂陵之战 adds the royal house’s internal contraction. The episode explains 韩国’s attack on 东周国 by saying the old Zhou domain had shrunk to a few towns and split into east and west Zhou polities.

《资治通鉴·周纪》18丨中国历史上第一例人头税 adds a paired decline-and-recognition case. In 344 BCE the lords gather at 洛邑 but the source reads the wording as meeting rather than true royal audience; in 343 BCE the king still performs hegemon recognition by elevating 秦孝公 through the 逢泽 meeting sequence.

《资治通鉴·周纪》40丨5月出生的孩子惹谁啦？ closes 周显王’s long reign in 321 BCE. 周慎靓王 / 周慎亮王 succeeds him, but the source gives the Zhou handoff only briefly before moving to 燕国 succession and the 齐国 Tian-family story.

《资治通鉴·周纪》45｜以史为鉴，君王到底该不该杀人成性？ opens the next annalistic volume by defining 周纪三 as 320-298 BCE. The frame now includes the six-year reign of 周慎靓王 and the first seventeen years of 周赧王, while substantive power remains with states such as Qin, Wei, Qi, Chu, Han, Zhao, Yan, and Song.

《资治通鉴·周纪》55丨 张仪痛失贵人秦惠王 adds a threat-to-authority role. In Zhang Yi’s pitch to 秦武王, Qin can use a Qi-Wei distraction to attack 韩国, enter 三川, and pressure or seize the maps and registers associated with Zhou royal authority. The royal house is therefore not only the annalistic frame but a target in Qin’s imagined advance.

《资治通鉴·周纪》72丨什么样的人 才是忠贞之士？ adds another late-Warring-States capital meeting. 秦昭襄王, 魏昭王, and 韩釐王 meet at the Zhou capital around 洛邑. As with the earlier 朝会之别 case, the royal house remains a recognized venue even when the decisive policy actors are the stronger states meeting there.

《资治通鉴·周纪》76丨谁给了楚顷襄王的自信？ adds the royal house’s symbolic-defense branch. After 周赧王 hears that 楚国 may target Zhou, 东周武公 argues that Zhou’s land and people are too small to reward conquest, while attacking the nominal Son of Heaven or taking 九鼎 could make Chu look illegitimate and invite wider retaliation. This becomes Zhou royal symbolic deterrence rather than military defense.

《资治通鉴·周纪》98丨历史上首个老赖登场了！ supplies the opposite final case. The same kind of residual Son of Heaven symbolism is now used by 楚考烈王 and 黄歇 / 春申君 to encourage anti-秦国 action, but the royal house cannot turn nominal authority into reliable 合纵 implementation. The failed borrowing, debt-platform humiliation, and Qin absorption of 西周国 close the royal-house branch as a 虚名权威动员陷阱.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》99-4｜谁是孔子后最伟大的思想家？ adds the post-collapse residue. The source says Zhou people do not want to accept 秦国 administration and flee east; Qin carries Zhou treasures back to 咸阳 and relocates the Western Zhou lord. The royal house is therefore no longer only a failed mobilization frame: its population, ritual goods, and surviving lordly shell are physically absorbed or displaced.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》102-1｜吕不韦是姜子牙后人？ adds the final Eastern Zhou side of the split-domain collapse. The source says 东周国 secretly plots with other lords against 秦国, after which 秦庄襄王 sends 吕不韦 to destroy it and move the ruler to Yangren. The episode treats this as the point when Zhou royal sacrifices end, sharpening the distinction between surviving names, residual towns, and effective royal continuity.

Connections

• 周威烈王 and 周安王 - succession pair in the source.
• 三晋受封, Partition of Jin / 三家分晋, 魏文侯, 赵烈侯, and 韩景侯 - Zhouji 04 formal-recognition branch.
• 《资治通鉴》 - chronicle frame.
• Posthumous Name Politics / 谥号政治 - explanation of how Zhou royal labels are constructed after death.
• Mandate of Heaven Legitimacy / 天命合法性 - adjacent legitimacy branch already present in the wiki.
• 王子定 and Aristocratic Political Asylum / 贵族政治避难 - episode 07 exile branch.
• 宋国, 微子启, and Shang-Remnant State Legitimacy / 商裔封国合法性 - episode 07 part 2 incorporation branch.
• 周烈王, Early Warring States Interstate War / 战国早期诸侯混战, and 晋静公 - Zhouji 09 reign transition and old-order ending.
• 太史旦, 《史记》, 秦国, 秦献公, and Kinship Legitimacy Diplomacy / 同源合法性外交 - Zhouji 10 Qin outreach branch.
• 周显王, 石门之战, 黻服, 十二华章政治象征, and Ritual Recognition of Military Power / 礼制承认军事权力 - Zhouji 11 ritual-recognition branch.
• 东周国, 西周国, Eastern-Western Zhou Split / 东周西周分裂, and 韩国 - Zhouji 16 royal-domain split and attack branch.
• 洛邑, Audience-Versus-Meeting Diplomacy / 朝会之别, 秦孝公, 逢泽, and Zhou Hegemon Recognition / 周室霸权承认 - Zhouji 18 royal meeting and recognition branch.
• 周显王, 周慎靓王 / 周慎亮王, 燕国, and 齐国 - Zhouji 40 final-year succession and shifted narrative center.
• 周赧王 - Zhouji 45 周纪三 frame after Zhou Shenliang Wang.
• 三川, 秦武王, and 以自保包装国策 - Zhouji 55 proposed Qin advance toward royal authority.
• 秦昭襄王, 魏昭王, 韩釐王, 洛邑, and 朝会之别 - Zhouji 72 meeting at the Zhou capital.
• 东周武公, 九鼎, 楚顷襄王, and 周王室象征威慑 - Zhouji 76 persuasion against Chu’s reported Zhou target.
• 楚考烈王, 黄歇 / 春申君, 债台高筑, 虚名权威动员陷阱, and 秦昭襄王 - Zhouji 98 failed final anti-Qin mobilization and royal-house collapse.
• 秦国, 咸阳, and 西周国 - Qinji 99 part 4 post-collapse flight, treasure removal, and relocation branch.
• 东周国, 秦庄襄王, 吕不韦, and Qinji 102-1 - final Eastern Zhou destruction and royal-sacrifice endpoint.