辩论与言说很早就受到我国思想家的重视和研究。《论语·先进》载，两千多年前儒家就把“言语”列为培养教育和考察评价学生的一个方面，并使之与“德行”、“政事”、“文学”并重。因此，不仅儒家创始者孔子“善为说辞”，且弟子中亦多有宰找、子贡等擅长言谈辩说之能者。（ Debate and speech have long been valued by our thinkers and research. “Analects of Confucius advanced” contains, more than two thousand years ago, Confucianism put “speech” as one aspect of training and evaluating students and making them equal to “virtue,” “politics,” and “literature.” Therefore, Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, is not only “good as a rhetoric”, but also many of his disciples, such as Zhaoyuan, Zigong, who are good at talking and arguing. (