That there are lost articles in Shitong does not match historical records, and there are many contradictory views in this ar- gument. These titles are so rich in content and wide in relationship that there are many related discourses in many other articles in this book, and there is no need to write other articles. Liu Can's criticism of Shitong articles in the late Tang Dynasty involved forty-nine articles, which have to be identical in number with those in Shitong. In effect, Liu Zhiji wrote forty-nine articles in Shitong, no more and no les...