Authors of this paper believe that the non-interrogative "Shenme(什么)" can be divided into three periods: 1)Tang and Five Dynasties period; 2)Song and Yuan dynasty period, 3)Ming and Qing dynasty period. There are two sequences existing in the development of "Shenme( 什么 )". 1)unclear reference〉arbitrary reference; 2)indicative〉substitutive. The paper also inspects the two sequences from ...