"The Warring States Policy" is the most complete book that records the political struggle in ancient China during the Warring States Period. In fact, it was a compilation of speeches made by lobbyists at that time. At that time, the changes in the situation of the seven countries, the reunification of Lian Heng, the protracted war and the change of political power were all related to the advice of counselors and the debate of wise men, so they had important historical value. This book has beautiful words, vivid language, witty eloquence and vivid characters, and also occupies an important position in the history of China classical literature. However, the author of this book has a different view.
Neijing Tongzhi is called "Liu"; Records of Classics and Records of the Tang Dynasty is called "Liu Xiangchuan"; The New Tang Book Yi Wenzhi says that "Liu Xiang wrote the Warring States Policy"; The summary of the catalogue of sikuquanshu says that "Liu Xiang combined all the records and made an article"; Gu Guangqi said that the Warring States Policy was based on learning from one school. These ancient books attributed the compilation or copyright of the Warring States Policy to Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty.
However, Liu Xiang himself did not admit it. He said in the Preface to the Warring States Policy: "The book Warring States Policy in our school has more than one volume in Chinese, which is quite confusing. There are still eight articles about the country, which are insufficient. Ministers rank second because of the country, and those who are out of order complement each other. Except for repetition, they get 33 articles. ..... Chinese book number, or national policy, or state affairs, or length, or story, or long book. I thought that during the Warring States period, I traveled as a scholar, assisting and planning the country I used. It should be the Warring States policy. " Liu Xiang only admitted to merging You's works into one episode, named "Warring States Policy".
The question about the author of Tibetan Ethnic Policy has existed for two thousand years. Luo Genze, a modern scholar, put forward a new idea for the author of Warring States Policy after the publication of Warring States Policy written by Kuaitong. Kuai Tong was a strategist in Qin and Han Dynasties. He once persuaded Fan Yangling to surrender to the Chen Sheng Rebels, and suggested that Han Xin seize all the land, and advised Han Xin to betray Liu Bang and stand on his own feet. When Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty was a guest prime minister, he wrote 8 1 meaningful articles. The reasons are: first, historical records. "Biography of Tuanyun": "Kuai Tong is good at discussing the length and the contingency of the Warring States, which is eighty-one." The Warring States Policy is the book of the Warring States Policy. Second, the Warring States policy was originally called short-term and long-term, and Kuaitong was a person who said that "one good deed deserves another". . Third, the Warring States policy ended in the Chu-Han War, and it was just the right time for Kuai Tong to lobby Han Xin during the Chu-Han War. Therefore, Sima Zhen once said in the Tang Dynasty that Kuai Tong also lobbied Han Xin in the Warring States Policy. Fourth, ancient private works often have no unified title, such as The Analects of Confucius, which is scheduled for the early Han Dynasty. Historical Records is called Tai Shi Gong or Tai Shi Gong Ji. The Warring States Policy was not named at first, until Liu Cai named it. Fifth, the Warring States Policy is also called meaningful. The Biography of Han Kuai Tong: "On the Warring States Period, it is said that the change of scholars is also self-ordered. Every eighty-one songs are meaningful. " Meaning is laziness, short and long, long and lazy. It is meaningful that Kuaitong himself named this book. Therefore, Luo Genze concluded: "The Warring States Policy was originally written by Kuai Tong; Added and re-edited by Liu Xiang; It is not known whether Sima Zhen saw the reprint of Liu Xiang, but this version is flawed. " As soon as this was said, the debate became more intense.
In the early 1970s, a silk book, Letters of the Warring States Period, was unearthed from Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha. This book provides a new way of thinking for the textual research of the author of Warring States Policy. Many parts of this book are the same as or similar to the Warring States Policy, but the style is different. It mainly records Su Qin's life remarks, which is probably the compilation of the book mentioned by Zisu in the Annals of Literature and Art in Han Shu. However, the last part of the book is a compilation of all kinds of lobbying stories, just like Otawa's Warring States policy, and the last year of the book is Qin's attack on Chu, which seems to have been written during the Qin and Han Dynasties. In this way, the statement that "Warring States Policy" was written in "Express Pass" has another layer of fog.
The Warring States Policy has an irreplaceable position in the history of China literature. However, although the mystery of its author has been solved in many ways, it still cannot give people a definite answer, which requires further efforts by future generations.