On Ancestry Worship in Records of Dreams in The Spring and AutumnAnnals by ZUO Qiu-ming

The records of dream in The Spring and Autumn Annals by ZUO Qiu-ming largely involve the relationship between the family concerned and the real politics and figures. This shows the ancestry worship in the Spring and Autumn period. In such records, most ancestors are kind and respectable and they play a role in protecting their family members and safety of their offspring, revenging or repaying gratitude for their descendents, and arranging their successors. In this sense, they are characterized by lineage.