Changing Relations 49
Thus one person wrote the list, Xue Anjun the bianwen, and Zhang Baoda
probably bought the manuscript and wrote the three lines at the end of verso.
The writing exercises were inserted after the list was written, but it is not clear
whether they were carried out before or after the bianwen was written.
The depicted parts are:(1) 26 × 23cm: the end of the scroll verso: lines 125–130: lines 125 and 126–127 are
duplicates whereby line 125 was written in black ink and the others in
vermilion. Line 128 in black ink is a repetition of line 124 and states the total of
nuns of the last list. Lines 125 and 128 are later additions—they were written over
the vermilion and in a different hand. They are presumably writing exercises.
The last two lines were written in vermilion. They state the total of monks and
nuns. Between lines 129 and 130 there is an insertion in black ink, which does not
belong to the list.(2) 26 × 33cm: the list of monks of Longxing temple: lines 27–37. The sheets are
pasted together after line 33. The monks are listed with their religious names: the
two dignitaries, the sengzheng and the falü, are entered with the name of their
family only. This is followed by ‘old novices’ written in vermilion, the names in
black ink, ‘new novices’ in vermilion, names in black ink. Afterwards the total
of monks and the total of old and new novices are stated, followed by the total of
persons—all in vermillion. The insertions between lines 35 and 36 and on line 37
were added later on and do not belong to the list.