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In [[Chinese language|Chinese]] philology, the '''Old Texts''' ({{zh|c=古文經|p=Gǔwén Jīng|w=Kuwen Ching}}) refer to some versions of the [[Five Classics]] discovered during the [[Han Dynasty]], written in archaic [[Chinese character|character]]s and supposedly produced before the [[To burn the classics and to bury the scholars|burning of the books]]. The term became used in contrast with '''Modern Texts''' or '''New Texts''' (今文經), which indicated a group of texts written in the orthography currently in use during the Han dynasty.

Historical sources record the recovery of a group of texts during the last half of the 2nd century BC from the walls of [[Confucius]]’s old residence in [[Qufu]], the old capital of [[State of Lu]], when Prince Liu Yu (d. 127 BC) attempted to expand it into a palace upon taking the throne there. In the course of taking the old wall apart, the restorers found versions of the ''[[Classic of History]]'', ''[[Rites of Zhou]]'', ''[[Yili (text)|Yili]]'', ''[[Analects of Confucius]]'' and ''[[Classic of Filial Piety]]'', all written in the old orthography used prior to the reforms of the [[Clerical script]]. Hence, they were called “old texts”.

==Terminology==

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*[[guwen (disambiguation)]]

*[[New Text Confucianism]]

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