《资治通鉴》 / Zizhi Tongjian
《资治通鉴》 / Zizhi Tongjian enters the wiki through 《资治通鉴·周纪》06丨魏文侯选谁当宰相呢（2）, where 芮淇讲透资治通鉴 reads the Zhou-annals section around early 战国时期 events. The episode does not survey the whole work; it uses one short stretch to explain military leadership, succession notices, posthumous names, and politically ambiguous assassination language.
《资治通鉴·周纪》07丨两起刺杀（1） adds another Zhou-annals segment, this time around 周安王’s first four years. The source shows how the chronicle’s terse notices invite supplemental reconstruction through 清华简《系年》 and later omen interpretation through 王应麟.
《资治通鉴·周纪》07丨两起刺杀（2） adds King An’s fifth to eighth years. The episode shows how the chronicle can move quickly from eclipse notice to assassination, succession, blank year, and city defection, making Chronicle Source Gaps / 编年史料空缺 and source variants such as 《战国策》 part of the reading problem.
《资治通鉴·周纪》08丨一代名将吴起惨死（1） adds a court-politics reading around 吴起 and 魏武侯. The episode uses the West River dialogue for Virtue Over Natural Barriers / 德胜地险 and the Tian Wen chancellor dispute for Transition Fit Over Merit / 过渡期适任优先于功劳, making the chronicle a source for organizational judgment as well as chronology.
《资治通鉴·周纪》08丨一代名将吴起惨死（2） continues the same Wu Qi arc after his flight to 楚国, using his reforms under 楚悼王 for Warring States Reform Backlash / 战国变法反噬. It also shows the chronicle’s annalistic function through clustered Qin/Zhao/Han succession notices and the formal recognition of 田和 by the 周王室.
The work’s wiki role here is historiographical. Its compact chronology gives the episode a reason to ask what a phrase records plainly, what it leaves out, and when later readers should move from received statement to cautious inference.
Connections
- 司马光 / Sima Guang - historian associated with the work in the broader wiki.
- 芮淇讲透资治通鉴 - podcast source reading the work.
- 周王室, 燕国, 楚国, and 魏国 - political settings in this episode.
- Posthumous Name Politics / 谥号政治 and Bandit Assassination Attribution / 盗贼行刺归因 - interpretive frames surfaced by the source.
- 清华简《系年》, 《战国策》, Natural Disaster Political Omen / 自然灾害政治征兆, Celestial Omen Political Responsibility / 天象政治责任, and Historical Detective Reasoning - episode 07 evidence and interpretation extension.
- 吴起, 魏武侯, 田文, 公叔, Virtue Over Natural Barriers / 德胜地险, and Transition Fit Over Merit / 过渡期适任优先于功劳 - Zhouji 08 court-politics extension.
- Warring States Reform Backlash / 战国变法反噬, Legalist Ruler Technique / 法家君术, 秦出公, 赵靖侯, 韩文侯, and 田和 - Zhouji 08 part 2 reform and chronology extension.