1. During this period serious studies were made chiefly by Lo Chn-Y, and Wang Kuo-wei, who deciphered about half of these newly discovered characters, thus laying the foundation of this new branch of palaeography.
这一时期严肃的研究工作主要是由罗振玉和王国维完成的。他们解密了约一半的新发现的文字，从而为这门新的古文书学奠定了基础。