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Guwenzhenbao is a collection of Chinese classic poems and essays. Huang Jian who was presumed a Song person is reputed to be the compiler of this book. Guwenzhenbao was fashioned and widely spread in China, Japan and Korea before the middle 17^th century and then became a literature textbook like Wenxuan and Guwenguanzhi. But since the Ming Dynasty, this book was gradually neglected by Chinese readers, and nearly lost. No scholars have specially studied it on some large scale in Chinese academic circle.Now three Chinese versions of this book are available to us: one was printed in Yuan Dynasty and now is reserved in Shaoxing Library, another was printed in Ming Dynasty and now is reserved in the Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the last one was printed by the Directorate of Ceremonial in the 11^th year of the Wanli reign period of Ming Dynasty which is reserved in Shanghai Library. Based on these three versions as well as other relative records, this dissertation tries to have a systematic study on the editions, the compilers and the forming process of this book.The dissertation is divided into three chapters. Chapter I examines the different editions of Guwenzhenbao. By comparing the contents and characteristics of the three versions, we can reach the conclusion that this book was first published in the Southern Song Dynasty and have some primary knowledge of the development of the editions during the Yuan and Ming dynasty.Chapter II focuses on the compilers of this book. It's commonly accepted that Guwenzhenbao was compiled by Huang Jian who lived in Song Dynasty. Through documentation, this dissertation finds out that Huang Jian lived in the period of the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, so he shouldn't be the first compiler of this book, but he did do some work for it. Lin Zhen was also considered the compiler of Guwenzhenbao by some scholars. By studying his living period and other works he wrote, this dissertation discusses the important role he played in the compilation of the book.Chapter III centers on the forming process of Guwenzhenbao. Through thecomparison between Guwenzhenbao and other typical collections compiled before Southern Song Dynasty, we can find some characteristics that the same style and same pieces of work embodies. But the dissertation puts emphasis on the specialty and creativeness of Guwenzhenbao. It inherited the achievements of the collections prior to it, and owns its special literary taste.This dissertation wants to provide an example of how to research the compilation of the collections for Chinese classics and traditional literature research. Meanwhile, it can be combined with the relative research made by Japanese and Korean scholars to provide a better reflection of the spread of Chinese classic works in the East-Asian culture circle.