he"Bian Wen "of Dunhuang is always an important subject for Dunhuangstudies,which has continued to draw attention of many
scholars and great progress hasbeen made recently,However until now,many basic problems still had not been solved.What the”Bian Wen"is,in fact,is still very confused.I think that this phenomenon is aresult that many scholars used to have a false theory about to guard their studies. Previ-ously,scholars always thought”Bian Wen"was a kind of
literary form,that was foundexisting exactly during the stage of folk
literature in the period of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. But I found ,that the works of the”Bian Wen”themselves have manv dif-ferences in creative methods and revealing appearences each other. So we can not saythat these works of”Bian Wen”belong to a same kind of literary form. On these sur-roundings,I think that the reason why during these years,problems such as what is the“Bian Wen”is still confused. After a careful investigation,the conclusion can be reachedthat in fact the”Bian Wen”is not a certain kind of literary form at all,it is only a cre-ative method,which was also used in mant kinds of later folk lihteratures,Of course.thiskind of creative method was extensively used in the period of the Sui and Tang Dynas-ties,this is the reason why we can find many works of such literature in Dunhuang em-ploying this method.On the other hand,this kind of method still takes a very importantrole in folk literature afterwards,not only in the”Bian Wen”of Dunhuang.