Abstract:

In 1994, Professor Wang Yonghao and I stated an argument: TwentyFour Varieties of Poetic Experience is a bogus book. Since that, more than ten years have passed. A lot of new evidence about this bogus book is added. But at the same time, there are some queries put forward, which are chiefly represented by the related statements of such three professors as Zu Baoquan, Zhang Shaokang and Wang Bugao. Even these three professors propose that the main evidence that helps to establish the bogus book is knocked down. This essay, in detail, enumerates the main arguments of these three professors, and refutes point by point the eight statements in Zhang Shaokang' s "Arguments on the Truth and Falseness of TwentyFour Varieties of Poetic Experience". All these statements by him are considered as being untenable. In addition, this essay makes a further interpretation of Su Shi' s words about the "twentyfour rhymes", and, by virtue of the statements from some persons in the Song and Yuan dynasties, points out that those words have nothing with Sikong Tu. And also this essay makes a textual research for the historical traces of TwentyFour Varieties of Poetic Experience since the Tang Dynasty, and, academically, gives a proper explanation of literature spreading in the Tang and Song dynasties. It concludes that, up to now, as far as existing evidence is concerned, the publishing date of TwentyFour Varieties of Poetic Experience has not gone beyond the limit of the beginning of the 14th century (1300 A.D.).

Key words: More Discussion , the Bogus, TwentyFour Varieties of Poetic Experience, Concurrent Answers to the Queries, Professor, Zu Baoquan,   Others