Study On The Unearthed Documents Of Lun-yu

It has formed an important branch in the field of Studies of Lun-yu to study on the unearthed documents of Lun-yu. Since the 20th century,a lot of manuscripts of Lun-yu belonging to the Tang Dynasty have been found in Dunhuang and Turpan. In 1973,the handwritten copy of bamboo-slip Lun-yu was found in a Han Dynasty tomb in the city of Dingxian,Hebei province.Many scholars have researched the unearthed documents of Lun-yu from different points,such scholars include Luo Zhen-yu, Wang Guo-wei, Wang Zhong-min, Guo mo-ruo, Li Xue-qin, Wang Su,Chen Jin-mu, Li Fang,Rong Xin-jiang, Hao Chun-wen, Liu Lai-cheng ,Zhang Yong-quan, Xu Jian-ping, Shan Cheng-bin, Jin Guzhi(金谷治),(?)(孟列夫)and others.There are some important works in the past period,such as Zheng Xuan's Lun-yu-zhu and Research about the Book(《论语郑氏注及其研究》)by WangSu, Zheng Xuan's Lun-yu-zhu belonging to the Tang Dynasty(《唐抄本郑氏注论语集成》)by Jin Guzhi, Comparison and Correction to Lun-yu-ji-jie Found in Dun huang(《敦煌<论语集解>校证》)by LiFang, the Handwritten Copy of Bamboo-slip Lun-yu Found in Dingxian(《定州汉墓竹简论语》)by Liu Lai-cheng and others,A Collection of the Confucianist Documents Found in Dunhuang(Ⅳ) (lun-yu)(《敦煌经部文献合集》第四册"群经类论语之属")by Zhang Yong-quan.Heyan's Lun-yu-ji-jie was lost after the Song Dynasty,and the prevailing book of Heyan's Lun-yu-ji-jie existed in the form of commentary and subcommentary books. Most contents of Heyan's Lun-yu-ji-jie including the Prace were kept in the manuscripts found in Turpan.In the Prace, Heyan expressed his viewpoints about such questions as the name of Lun-yu,the author of Lun-yu, compiling Lun-yu and etc.It is a pity that the Preface was so brief that we can not get more informations about these questions. The questions are so important in the history of studies on Lun-yu that we shall continue to talk about them in the paper.The manuscripts of Lun-yu found in Dunhuang and Turpan and the handwritten copy of bamboo-slip Lun-yu found in Dingxian can help us to resolve some difficulties existing in the past and can help us to understand the text of Lun-yu exactly. Various versions of the text found in the unearthed documents can provide us with more informations about the different types of Lun-yu in the history and the characteristics of the classical Chinese.