| The Guodian Chu Slips is a hand-written copy emerged in the middle & later stage of Warring States Dynasty. The styles of characters clear, its content covering masterpieces of Confucianism & Taoism, it is the very wonderful material for the study of ancient Chinese philology. Up till now, over 700 treatises have keen contributed concerning the study of it, with the research scope touching upon such fields as literature, history, philosophy, etc. However, for several philological phenomena it has displayed, still no writings has appeared to give them an all-round analysis. Hence, this dissertation will, from a pure philology perspective, make a comprehensive investigation.In structure, this paper falls into two chapters: the former is referred to as "Theory Section", Which is to give the Guodian Chu Slips a full-scale survey from the key factors that can reflect philological phenomena in certain period, such as the numbers of characters, the word frequency, the structural types of inscriptions. Thus this chapter can basically outline the actual appearance of the Guodian Chu Slips in light of its philologic significance. The latter chapter is "Explanation Section", which has gathered all the outcome of philologic interpretation from the day it was published till the close of the year 2001.The total characters of the Guodian Chu Slips are 12072. The numbers of characters, upon our renewed investigation, are 1293, among which the recognizable are 1257, the unrecognizable 36. All the characters are divided into 16 sections, and the number & percentage of each character is counted. The characteristics of the Guodian Chu slips in its usage are also analyzed: The more often a word is used, the less the number of characters is, and the simpler the style is. And rise versa. These traits are basically correspondent with the Chinese character's rules of usage in its development.In the structural types of inscriptions. Four categories have been fixed to analyze the structural types of words: "Xiangxing", "Zhishi", "Huiyi, "Xingsheng". The structural type of inscription in each word is further analyzed in details. The total number are 1303, among which "Xiangxing" were 118, "Zhishi" were 24, "Huiyi" were 148, "Xingsheng" were 909, etc. The proportion of each type mentioned above was 9.06%, 1.84%, 11.36%, 69.76%. Compared with the early inscriptions in Shang & Western Zhou dynasty, for the Guodian Chu slips in the Warring States Period, profound changes had taken place in the proportion of structural type. The percentage of picto-phonetic structure increased gradually; meanwhile the proportions of ideo graphic structures, such as "Xiangxing", "Zhishi", etc, declined little by little. Such proportional variations reflect the evolution of Chinese character's ways of forming words. In, the Age of Oracle Bone Inscription, the proportion of picto-phonetic structure was only 29.34%, which indicated the picto-phonetic structure was still not the main way of producing the inscriptions. Those ways of forming words as "Xiangxing", "Zhishi" etc, still owned dominant priority. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the proportion of picto-phonetic had surpassed half, which was 59.9%. And "Xingsheng" type gained dominant. When it came to the Warring States Period, the proportion of picto-phonetic structure in the Guodion Chu slips had amounted high to 69.76%, Which showed the ability of "Xingsheng" type to form inscriptions was further strengthened; meanwhile, such ability of the other 3 idea graphic structures was on a further decline. This phenomena fully displayed Chinese character's adjustment & optimization in its ways of producing inscriptions.In this paper, the author also made a full-scale survey and described four main types of development. They were "Zengfan","Shengjian","Tihuan", and "Ebian". "Zengfan" was mainly expressed by adding a pictogram, a phonogram, or some other components to an inscription. "Shengjian" was mainly displayed by lessening components or strokes of a character. "Ebian" was chiefly discomp...
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