Abstract:

Woods of Words by Pei Qi was very popular in the intellectual circles of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which had once been the required reading book in the celebrities of that time. It, however, was criticized by one of the celebrities, Xie An, and then met cold-shoulder of the society. It is said in Sui Shu·Jing Ji Records that Woods of Words was deserted in the Sui Dynasty, but we can infer that it was actually deserted in the middle of the Song Dynasty rather than the Sui Dynasty according to some documentary records, for example, some reference books in the Tang and Song Dynasty have cited a large quantity of materials from it, Liu Zhiji in the Tang Dynasty have once made comments on it, and Sui Shu·Jing Ji Records has deficiencies in recording.

Key words:

 Woods of Words, Desertion, Time, Questioning