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This article provides that the successive study on 'Xiesheng series' can have an inner paradox. The Xiesheng principle by which most of chinese characters can be made with one determinant and one phonetic was suggested from the Han dynasty, more precisely, by Xu Shen (58?-147?). This Xiesheng theory linguistically supported the sino-centrism by enforcing the research about the chinese literary form. The Xiesheng series has been considered to have been created before the Old Chinese period. But sometimes it's not true cause some Xiesheng series were invented after the Old Chinese period, especially during the Qin and Han dynasties. Part of the rhyming of the Odes [Shijing] reflected dialectal features, but it has been also sometimes neglected. Be magnificent the work of Karlgren (1889-1978) on the Xiesheng series, he overlooked these problems. Dialectal informations which are supposed to contain Old Chinese phonetic features like Tibeto-burman will be helpful to solve the inner problems in the Xiesheng series.