Yin VVenzi（『ヂ文子』）is an indispensable classic for the study on the thought of“ming（名）”in ancient China． It is because that there are a lot of statements about“ming”． Especially it intensively argued the political thought about“ming”． Besides， its thought of“ming”i sn’ 煤@an only doctrine of a school， it stands aloof from schools， that is， the school of ming， the school ru（儒）， the school of fa（法）， the school of dao（道）（the school of Huang－Lao（黄老））， and it broke down the difference of“fact judgment”and“value judgment”． There a「eve「y few classics like this in the pre－Qin and Qin－Han period． Until now， many scholars have studied Yin Wenzi from the standpoint of linguistics or logic． Though we can’t say that there are no studies from the standpoint of politics， they weren’t systematic． This paper tries to systematically study the thought of“ming”in Yin VVenzi especially from the standpoint of politics
