ABSTRACT
A silk scroll was excavated in December, 1973, from Tomb No. 3 of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.- 220 A.D.) at Ma-wang-tui (JSiEift), Ch’ang-sha City, Hunan Province.1 This document contains an essay appended as Lost Volumes, Nos. 1 and 4, to the Lao Tzu Manuscript A, and was supposedly authored by Mencius’ follower(s). These untitled Lost Volumes include 181 lines in 17 sections, totaling about 5,400 characters.
