Lun Yu, the classic Confucian text, has been widely discussed in the recent years. However, it seems that few people have found it necessary to inquire into the meaning of the title; even scholars specialized in Lun Yu have not clarified the meaning for the audience in their lectures. It is a mistake to interpret the term Lun in Lun Yu as “theory (or to theorize),” “commentary (or to comment),” or “argumentation (or to argue),”which is the connotation the term has when it appears in phrases such as ping lun (commentary) or li lun (theory). The term lun can be pronounced in two ways:when it is pronounced in the fourth tone (as in ping lun or li lun), it means “theory” or “commentary,” but when it is pronounced in the first tone (as in Lun Yu), it means “to collect,” “to compile,”or “to organize.”In other words, Ban Gu was right when he interpreted the meaning of the title Lun Yu as “an arranged collection of Confucius’ sayings,”that is, the Confucian Analect