During this period, Fuchai of Wu was overthrown by king Goujian of Yue, who is sometimes considered one of its (*) Five Hegemons.
When a general from this time period was ordered to kill himself by a king who ignored his warnings, he asked that his eyeballs be hung from the city wall, where they could watch the enemy conquer his country. The idiom "lying on brushwood and tasting gall" refers to a man from this time period who hung a gallbladder from a stone to remember his hatred of a rival who deposed him. Popular legend holds that a ruler who presided immediately before this period repeatedly lit warning beacons to amuse his beautiful concubine, and was killed when the "dog barbarians" or Quanrong sacked his capital, ushering in this time period. This period's end is demarcated by the partition of its powerful Jin state. During this period, Fuchai of Wu was overthrown by king Goujian of Yue, who is sometimes considered one of its (*) Five Hegemons. A historical text about this period was recorded by the state of Lu, one of whose officials went into exile to write the Book of Rites and produce the aphorisms collected in the Analects. For 10 points, name this period of the Eastern Zhou dynasty that is chronicled by a set of Annals ascribed to Confucius.
When a general from this time period was ordered to kill himself by a king who ignored his warnings, he asked that his eyeballs be hung from the city wall, where they could watch the enemy conquer his country.
Spring and Autumn period (or Chunqiu shidai; accept Spring and Autumn Annals; prompt on "(Eastern) Zhou Dynasty" before "Zhou")