Abstract: Abstract: There have keen 20 kinds of books and theses proofing and researching on Guodian Lao Tzu besides some other papers by the end of June, 2003 .Research has been conducted from the following seven aspects, i.e., 1 .Combination of fragmentary sections; 2 .interpretation of characters; 3 .correction of the writing; 4.expianation of the meaning of phrases;5.poliation of differences between edition; 6 .textual character; 7 .research on thought .This article tries to test these 7 aspects respectively .As for the sixth, the article corrects some errors in those theories and illustrates that it is hard to settle this point because of the lack of evidence .But textual character of Guodian Lao Tzu is another issue different from the one whether there was a whole fire-thousand-word Lao Tzu at 300 B.C.Therefore,these two should be studied separately.As for the last aspect,the article criticizes the theory thatbamboo edition is written by Laodan (老聃)while today's edition by Dan(儋)the official in charge of recording history.In addition,this article puts forward some personal ideas about explanation of the meaning of phrases in Guodian Lao Tzu.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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