简帛《五行》述略

“Wu Xing”(五行), an epistemological literature written on bamboo slips and Silk, is fully configurated and carefully designed . The oringin of its thought may trace back to Confucius and Zi You(子游). Its content directly affected the theory of Xin (心 mind) and Xing (性 nature) which appeared in late Warring States. In the course of writing the article, Zi Si‘s(子思) theory affected the part Explanation of “Wu Xing”, and the part Commentaries on “Wu Xing” were finished by the students of Shi Zi(世子) no later than the period of Mencius(孟子). It has been spent a long period finishing the literature which is a whole system consistes of Scripture(经), Explain on Classics(说) and Commentaries on Classics (传). “Wu Xing” had been lost after Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), and the reason for which attributed mainly to the thought despotism.