司马迁在《史记·孟荀列传》里曾经说荀卿对于亡国乱君的浊世之政痛心疾首,于是“推儒、墨、道德之行事兴坏,序列著数万言而卒。”这里所说的“序列著数万言”即是指的荀卿的名世著作《荀子》。我们现在能够看到的《荀子》有三十二篇,是唐朝杨根据汉朝刘向整理版本编定而成的。 Sima Qian once stated in his “Historical Records of Mencius and Mencius” that Yu Qingqing was very sad and worried about the chaotic rule of the world who had lost his country. Then he “pulled Confucianism, ink, and morality to act in a matter of ten thousand words.” “Sequences with tens of thousands of words” refers to the famous book “Xunzi”. We can now see 32 pieces of “Xunzi”, which was compiled by Tang Zhaoyang according to Liu Xiang’s version of the Han Dynasty.