In the late years (around 221BC) of the Warring States Period (475-221BC), the prime minister of the Qin State, Lu Buwei, organized to compile the collection of Eclectics. Lushi Chunqiu (Master Lu's Spring and Autumn) was completed in 239BC on the eve that the Qin State would unify the other six states. The book included 200,000 words in 26 volumes and 160 chapters. It esteemed Taoists by affirming Laozi's thought of objectivity and abnegating his negative ingredient. Besides, it absorbed the merits of the Confucians, Mohists, Legalists, and Militarists and formed the system of politics, economy, philosophy, morality and military affairs. In order to offer the golden kingcraft for the long live of the Qin State, Lu Buwei integrated merits from the various schools of thoughts and summarized historical experience and lessons.

The book contains materialistic elements and many old stories, so it is of high theoretical and historical value. Sima Qian mention Lushi Chunqiu in the same breath with Zhouyi (Changes of Zhou), Chunqiu (Spring and Autumn Annals), and Lisao (The Poem on Departure) when he wrote Shiji (The Records of the Great Historian).