How to understand the incompleteness of Liezi

Liezi is a very important work in the pre-Qin period, which has a far-reaching influence on philosophy, literature, science and technology and religion in later generations. However, this book has suffered a lot in modern times. In the Qing Dynasty, Yao Jiheng's Textual Research on Ancient and Modern Fake Books identified Liezi as a fake book for the first time, and its successors became more and more fierce. Mr. Liang Rengong, a leading figure in modern academic circles, said in The Authenticity and Age of Ancient Books: "There is a kind of book. Academic background is all messed up. For example, Liezi was compiled by Zhang Zhan, the author of Liezi Note in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who collected Taoist characters. " "If I don't know its source, I mistakenly think that it really belongs to Lieyu Kou, and according to its similarities and differences, Liezi is better than Zhuangzi. Twenty pieces of evidence that Liezi is a fake book. Therefore, most people in the academic circle agree with Mr. Ma's point of view, saying with one voice that Liezi is a fake book. Moreover, in recent years, it has intensified. Many monographs on the history of literature and philosophy simply made no mention of Liezi, sentenced him to death and expelled him from the qualification of ancient books. Of course, reading must first distinguish between authenticity and falsehood, which has long been * * * in academic circles. If the real thing is regarded as a fake book, it is equivalent to wronged innocent people, and the consequences are more serious than the former. Taking the analogy of employing people, it is certainly not good for villains to be misused; But if people with both ability and political integrity are regarded as villains, they will lose their talents and fail to achieve great things. Mr. Mada's analysis of Liezi can be summarized into six aspects: 1, and the academic reversal of time sequence obliterates the role of Liezi as a link between the past and the future after Laozi, making the pre-Qin Dynasty. 2. Mistake Guixu School in Warring States as a decadent celebrity in Western Jin Dynasty; 3, obliterating the original four-stage theory of universe generation put forward by Liezi; 4. The celestial body movement theory, the earth movement theory and the infinite universe theory in Liezi were obliterated, which were much earlier than the similar theories in the West; 5. Ignoring the precious pre-Qin historical materials such as myths and legends, music history and acrobatic history preserved in Liezi; 6. Liezi's pioneering work of creating a romantic style combining fable with philosophy has been ignored. In other words, it has had a bad influence on the study of the history of philosophy, science and technology and literature and art in China, which is the harm of "taking the truth as false". Personally, I think that the spirit of daring to doubt the ancient ideological trend and the style of study that pays attention to textual research have really played a role in emancipating the mind, and the results are also purposeful.