Abstract:
DongPoWaiJi is the main and better original of
SU Shi's letters (from the 175th to the 809th), which was edited in the period between Northern Song(960-1127) and Southern Song(1125-1210) Dynasty, in order to complete the whole works of SU Shi. The rest part of letters (from the 1st to the 174th) came from another bad original of "text-system" in Song Dynasty, which can be represented by
DongPo-HanMoChiDu (Edition of
FenXinGe Series). Today, researchers always use
DongPoXuJi as the only source of
SU Shi's letters, which is just the later consequence of the two originals. It is to say, whenever we study SU Shi by his letters, the first-hand texts are not
DongPoXuJi but
DongPoWaiJi and
DongPo-HanMoChiDu.