Scholars in the Song Dynasty were skeptical about The Book of History mainly in the diction, word order and order of the chapters of the book. This skeptical attitude is influential even today, hence different skeptical suggestions about the ancient edition of The Book of History, long and brief Forewords and Confucian Biography, diction and word order. Scholars offered doubt about The Wucheng and The Hongfan mainly for the order of chapters, while those skeptical suggestions about the ancient edition of The Book of History, long and brief Forewords and Confucian Biography became the important part of studies of The Book of History since the Song Dynasty. The skeptical suggestions about The Book of History varied from minor matters to the body text as a whole, starting a new orientation of studies of The Book of History which emphasizes interpretation only of the modern script, falsification of the ancient edition and reedition of both modern and ancient scripts of The Book of History. Therefore, a reexamination of those documents skeptical about The Book of History will no doubt understand the evolution of studies of The Book of History.

academia in the Song Dynasty; the modern script of The Book of History; the ancient edition of The Book of History