Abstract:
Since 1957, Professor Tang Zhangru(唐长儒) expounded the fundamentals about “Lihu”, the study on “Lihu” and other related issues by historians in mainland China had already continued for 60 years, and the Wu bamboo slips excavation at Zoumalou in 1996 also has a history of more than 20 years.With the Wu bamboo slips, the study could be divided into two periods: in the first period (1957—1996), almost all the historians agreed to three prevailing view: the status of “Li” （吏）was lower than common people during the WeiJin, Southern & Northern Dynasties; “Li” had their own census register called “Liji” （吏籍）; the status of “Li” was hereditary. In the second period (1997—2017), Wu bamboo slips were excavated at Zoumalou which provided a lot of new materials for study. Depending on that, the study on “Lihu” and the other related issues during the WeiJin, Southern & Northern Dynasties was restarted and achieved breakthrough, among which Professor Li Hu’s(黎虎) systematic research on “Lihu” and “Limin” was the highlight. However, some groups have great leverage on the study of Wu bamboo slips, and the old opinion of “Lihu” is still influential. With the interference from that, the systematic study of Professor Li Hu couldn’t be recognized well, and couldn’t gain worthy attention and academic identification.It also emerges that, though the study on the Wu bamboo slips has achieved a lot, there is still some problems of academic misconduct problems which couldn’t be ignored, such as making a deliberate misinterpretation of materials handed down from ancient times for discrediting the new opinion,playing paronomasia,conjecturing in illogical ways,supporting their own group and attacking others, and so on.
