Abstract: The Jinwen and Guwen controversy in the study of Confucian Classics rose in the late Qing，and the involved scholars including Liao Ping traced this academic phenomenon back to the Han dynasty． This paper analyses Liao Ping's works and further proves that the characters of the controversy in the study of Confucian Classics in Han period did not took place between the Jinwen and Guwen，but the official academy and the folk academy． The scholars of the official academy did say all of the classics were philosophy，and the scholars of the folk academy alsonever regarded the Confucianism as historiography． Both paid the same attention to argumentation and textual criticism． Therefore，the Jinwen and Guwen controversy was the unique academic phenomenon in the late Qing． It is not reasonable for us to inherit thus opposite position to comprehend the history of Confucian Classics．