【英译】(Translation in English)

Gong Hu Zi said, “It’s necessary for any ruler to study Spring and Autumn Annals.” Generally speaking, one who is honorable by birth is characteristic of being arrogant, while one who is wealthy by birth is characteristic of being haughty. It is a rare thing that any one who is wealthy and honorable by birth doesn’t probe into the successes or failures of ancient or modern times to draw lessons from them and doesn’t handle affairs in a proper way, but can save himself from damage. Spring and Autumn Annals can be used as a good lesson of ruling a state. During the Spring and Autumn Period, thirty-six rulers were killed, fifty-two states were ruined and many dukes escaping from their states couldn’t preserve them. All of them were the rulers who had foreseen the facts of other ruler’s failures but fell into the same rut eventually.”