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"Yeke Congshu" is a note written in Song, known for its research.The contents of the book are extensive and reliable. Laws, history,customs, language and other aspects were involved in the novel,reflecting the authors deep thinking in political and social life. Inaddition, the book also retains a large number of historical materials,including poetry, anthology, epitaphs and so on. Therefore, it can notonly makes up the scarcity of the history, but also help futuregenerations collate some missing books; there are a lot of entriesrelated to textual and phonological, also have his own opinions.The body of this article is divided into four parts:The first chapter mainly discussed the author. Wang Mao havenot entered the official career in his whole life, and "Yeke Congshu" isthe only book written by him that we can see now, we also couldn’t findhim in the historical materials. The article can only use the family tree,epitaph, local history and other materials about Wang, try to clarify theWang Mao’ family and his friends, and to analyze his optimistic attitudeand the idea of self-preservation of the life.Chapter2discusses the study of the version. The earliest versionis appeared in1562, which is the best one until now. After that, I put theemphasis on the two important version systems: one is30volumessystem represented by "Barnyard Sea", and another is specificcircumstances of the12volumes system originating in "Yeke CongshuChen Meigong rework version".Chapter3analysis the contents of "Yeke Congshu". This sectionis divided into national institution, the academic research, historicalstories, social life, medicine, geography and so on. Wang Mao did notbelieve historical recording easily. He often researched history byscripture, poetry, inscriptions, genealogy and other materials, so that it remained so many materials about the history, customs, linguistic forscholars referencing; The book contains many entries relating to others’books, which is useful for researching the verion of those books, to acertain extent it also has some value of collenction to some losingbooks.Chapter4is the academic evaluation of the book, mainlydiscussing three points from other people’s evaluations, academicvalue and weaknesses. The evaluation of “Yeke Congshu" in academia,praise is greater than criticism. The research range of this book isextensive, and the demonstration do not reference to one pattern.Most of the materials are indicated, so it has high literature and textualvalue. But we can not ignore some weak points in this book, such assome entries quoted fake books, chicanery, etc.Overall, the "Yeke Congshu" is the book that Wang Mao writtenover ten years, the arrangements of the entry do not follow certain rules.Although it has some weakness, but the value of the book is no doubt.The book is very useful in supplement to the history, research of otherbooks, customs records and other aspects at all, its academic researchto future also has a significant impact.