 Toward the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and into the fractious “Three Kingdoms” period, a commentarial and collective scholarly literature surrounding Confucius (rather than later exponents of the tradition such as Mengzi or Xunzi) became popular. A number of volumes emerged that collected (and added) stories about Confucius and extant sayings purported to be of Confucius, from a number of earlier sources. Two of these volumes, the Kongzi Jiayu (Discussions of the Confucius School) and Kong Congzi (Collected Sayings of Confucius) were compiled just after the end of the Han Dynasty, during the revolts of the Three Kingdoms period, by the Cao Wei court scholar Wang Su (195–256 CE). This compilation was part of a general concern with and debate surrounding commentaries on the classics. It became common in the modern period to dismiss Wang Su’s collections as “forgeries”, but this makes little sense, given that Wang’s compilations drew together passages from a host of other well-known sources. The commentarial tradition on such texts as the Analects and Laozi took hold in the Han, with one of the most famous commentarial collections, the Lunyu Jijie (“Collected Explanations of the Analects”) produced by a team of Cao Wei scholars associated with He Yan, who played a major role in the development of the Xuanxue (Neo-Daoist) movement in the Wei-Jin period.