<正>Foranoddfunctionf(x)definedonlyonafiniteinterval,thispaperdealswiththeexistenceofperiodicsolutionsandthenumberofsimpleperiodicsolutionsofthedifferentialdelayequation(DDE)(?)(t)=-f(x(t-1)).Byuseofthemethodofqualitativeanalysiscombinedwiththeconstructingofspecialsolutionsaseriesofinterestingresultsareobtainedontheseproblems.