The Birth of the False Shangshu and the History of Its Textual Research

The textual research of the false Shangshu sees more than 1800 years from West Han to the Qianjia periods of Qing Dynasty.In order to be famous,or make profits,or something else,two false Shangshu have been made: one was written by Zhang Ba,which was thought of as a false book at that time;the other by Mei Ze-xian in East Jin Dynasty.From the North Song Dynasty on,some scholars began to question the truth of Shangshu by Mei Ze-xian.Wu Yue questioned the False Book of History in Ancient Chinese firstly,and then Zhu Xi not only questioned it,but verified it,which had great influence.Mei Zu,living in the Ming Dynasty,was the first scholar who used the scientific method to verify,which influenced Yan Ruoqu in the early Qing Dynasty to prove it further systematically,and sentenced the false Book of History in Ancient Chinese.