本文主要讨论汉语个体量词的历史演变和语言循环现象之间的关系。我们利用《老乞大》先后修订的两个版本,观察汉语量词的历史演变。透过这项观察,发现过去所提出有关量词的循环变化假设,在北方汉语裹可能靠不住。不过这个假设,无疑地仍然适合于南方的语言。 This article mainly discusses the relationship between the historical evolution of Chinese individual measure words and the phenomenon of language cycles. We use the two versions of “Old Begging,” which have been revised one after the other, to observe the historical evolution of Chinese quantifiers. Through this observation, we found that the hypothesis about the cyclical changes of the quantifiers proposed in the past may not be able to survive in the northern Chinese language. However, this assumption is undoubtedly still suitable for the southern language.