 The Chunqiu Fanlu is one of the earliest and most prominent Han examples of so-called “correlative cosmology”. The text has been traditionally associated with the well-known Han court scholar Dong Zhongshu (b. ~195 BCE), an advocate of the tradition based on the Gongyang commentary on the classic history Chunqiu, a text believed to be essential for understanding philosophy. Three major commentaries on the text, Gongyang, Zuo, and Guliang, offered different interpretations and explanations of the Chunqiu, itself a very sparse and direct text. Different scholastic traditions developed around these commentaries, as groups accepted one or the other of the commentaries as authoritative. In early China, particularly in the Han period, intellectual “schools” are better understood in terms of commitments to the centrality of certain texts rather than commitment to certain concepts or theories.