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<p>The <b>Spring and Autumn period</b> ( 770 - c. 481&nbsp;BCE) was a period in <a href="page.php?w=History_of_China">Chinese history</a> corresponding roughly to the first half of the <a href="page.php?w=Eastern_Zhou">Eastern Zhou</a> ( 771 - 256&nbsp;BCE), characterized by the gradual erosion of royal power as local lords nominally subject to the Zhou exercised increasing political autonomy. The period's name derives from the <a href="page.php?w=Spring_and_Autumn_Annals">Spring and Autumn Annals</a>, a chronicle of the <a href="page.php?w=state_of_Lu">state of Lu</a></p><p>
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