Spring and Autumn period
A period of Chinese history covering the early Eastern Zhou, from about 770 BCE to the late fifth century BCE. Zhou royal authority weakened as regional states competed, followed by the Warring States period.
In China's Spring and Autumn period, chef Yi Ya served his own three-year-old son to the duke, who had joked he'd "tasted everything but human flesh." Statesman Guan Zhong warned: "One who kills his own child can abandon his lord." After Guan Zhong died, Yi Ya starved the duke to death.
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