2001年5月,余到台北参加扬州学派讨论会,得参观傅斯年图书馆,得知该馆珍藏一批高邮二王手稿,仅得其目,未见其详。三年后,始在台湾同人的帮助下,见到其影印本,快读一遍,略知其内容,书此文,以公诸扬州文化界同好。高邮二王是乾嘉考据学的代表人物。乾嘉考据学的最精品是小学,即古代的语言文字学。高邮二王的专长就是小学。当时扬州人汪中评论乾隆时期的学术界代表人物说,“经学有程、戴,史学有钱、邵,小学有段玉裁及王氏父 May 2001, I went to Taipei to attend Yangzhou Symposium, Fu Sinian visited the library, learned that the museum collection of a number of Gaoyou two Wang manuscripts, only its title, did not see the details. Three years later, with the help of colleagues in Taiwan, I saw a photocopy of it, read it quickly, and read the contents of this book. Gaoyou two kings is a representative of the study of Qian Jia. The most excellent product of Qianjia and Jiaxue is primary school, that is, ancient language and philology. Gaoyou two Wang’s specialty is primary school. At that time Wangzhou, Yangzhou, commented on the academic figures in Qianlong’s time saying that ”there is money for the study of the Confucian classics, Dai and historiography. There are Duan Yucai and Wang’s father