The question-and-answer style rose in time of the Han and the Wei and the Northern and Southern Dynasty and remained long as a distictive style of writing in the later days. This style of writing was widely accepted in the fu form of writing for its stylistic characteristics. Structuralized in form of question and answer and encoded with the fact that the author questions because he knows, the question-and-answer style offers a means for scholars to show their inner trouble and dispel it by themselves. Hence its cultural value of exceeding the style itself.

question-and-answer style; the Fu; question and answer; cultural value; symbolic implication