| In the Confucian ideology and culture, Book of Changes occupies a pivotalposition, it affects every aspect of China’s traditional culture, and it is a work which isengaged as the classical literature work which can not be ignored by the researchers.Among many researchers of Book of Changes and their works on that, Wang Bi and hisBook Notes can not be ignored.This book has created a new ethos of metaphysicalpoint of view to interpret Book of Changes, and reject the number of science and divinesuperstition, open the pioneering field of moral principles of the Changes learning.Academic scope has made a lot of researches of Wang Bi’s Book Notes from differentperspectives, and created fruitful scholarly works. However, it is a bit weak on thestudy of different versions. With the emerging of great number of the unearthedliterature works, the researchers engaged in classical literature are bound to re-examinethe master copy they used, therefore, Wang Bi’s note version of Book of Changes haspractical significance and research value to the terms of the research.This paper makes the researches mainly on Wang Bi’s note version of Book ofChanges, firstly it introduces the author Wang Bi. Through the introduction of theauthor’s life stories and his academic origins, this can help us understand Wang Biexcellent academic achievement in a better way. Secondly, according to the literaturematerials tracing the master copy of Wang Bi’s note version of Book of Changes, it iseasy to find out the master copy comes from Fei’s Ancient Book of Changes, andmakes a further development on this basis. At the same time, basing on the Annalsdirectory, the official repair directory and the private directory, using the knowledge ofbibliography, make a clear comb for the spreading of Wang Bi’s note version of Bookof Changes, and provide readers an overview of the development of thisversion.Finally, this paper focuses on the analysis of Wang Bi’s note version of BookNote, Book Commentary, Book of Justice, Book of Changes and Chief Justice and fourcategories of Changes to learn the characteristics of the version of the work. Theresearch method of version study can describe layout of the version, examine the theorigins of the version, and clarify the inheritance relationship between the fourcategories of version, which can provide readers a clearer development of version. |