| Xin Jian Jue Ke Gu Jin Yuan Liu Zhi Lun,also known as Yuan Liu Zhi Lun,is a kind of book on imperial examination in the Southern Song Dynasty.This book details the similarities and differences among the hundred schools of classics and history,and the evolution of the systems in the past dynasties.In particular,there are the chapters and national codes of the Song Dynasty,which are classified into categories and described in detail,with some not recorded in other books.It carries the author’s cognition and judgment on the scholarship of classics and history,which is helpful to the study of the scholarship of the Song Dynasty.This book consists of four volumes with more than 500000 words.The first,second and sequel were written by Lin Giong and the other one was written by Huang Luweng.There are few records in the existing literature on Yuan Liu Zhi Lun,and there has always been a dispute about the length of time before,after and after the book was written.Through analysis of data,it is found that the length of time before,after and after the book was written was three years after Baoqing.This book has been published many times in the Ming and Qing Dynasties,and the issue of edition is very complicated.The academic community has made some research achievements on the issue of edition of this book,but there are still some deficiencies.For example,the version information is verified incorrectly,the source and flow of the version are not clear enough,and the version research is fragmented.This paper makes a textual research on the nine versions of Yuan liu zhi lun,such as the Yuan Yuansha Academy edition,the Korean Li Dynasty Shizong edition,the Ming Zhu Shi Quan edition,the Liu Kechang edition,and the Bai Ping edition,and compares and collates the nine versions.Based on the results of the collation,it analyzes the source and flow of each version,as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each version More detailed textual research has corrected and supplemented the mistakes and shortcomings of previous studies.For the lost documents preserved in the book,this paper will compile the lost Si Chao Guo Shi and Sheng Chao Zhi Lue,hoping to help the relevant research.The compilation style of this book is relatively special.Lin Giong first collected the materials,compiled a small paper centered on a certain point of view,and then scattered the supplementary materials into the text in the form of small notes.Scholars generally hold different views on the classification of the compilation style of this book.Some classify it as a category,some as a set,and some as an anthology.In fact,this book is a style between a set of categories and a selection.This article first compares one of the articles with the real examination-oriented essay in the Southern Song Dynasty,specifically analyzing the differences between it and the exam oriented strategy essay,and then compares it with the Wen Xian Tong Kao,generally analyzing the differences between the two books in terms of content,style and purpose,so that everyone can have a more intuitive understanding of Yuan Liu Zhi Lun is different from the traditional kind of books that "tell but do not write".Lin Xuan adds a large number of author comments in the book,and excavates the literary thought contained in the book by analyzing and sorting out these comments.Lin believes that "Tao" is the root,"literature" is the branch and leaf,and "Tao" is the most important element of the article.We should not only internalize "Tao" in the mind,but also externalize "Tao" in the line.Secondly,"Zong Jing Chong Gu","Zong Jing" is the truth of learning "Jing",not its form.He also emphasized the author’s true feelings in the article,such as love and patriotism,because these feelings flowing from the heart can most affect people’s hearts.Lin Xuan attached great importance to morality and despised literature,but he did not deny the role of literary forms.He praised diverse literary styles,such as bold and straightforward,simple and elegant,plain and natural.As a kind of imperial examination book,this book has a close relationship with the imperial examination test plan.This paper studies this book from the aspect of the imperial examination,deeply excavates its ideas and views on the imperial examination policy,so as to reflect the imperial examination fashion at that time,in order to have a more comprehensive understanding of this book and the imperial examination in the Southern Song Dynasty.Yuan Liu Zhi Lun has a special position in the history of category books.First of all,this book is one of the first category books to add a large number of authors’ comments to the materials.Secondly,the catalogue of this book reflects the change of scholar’s thought in the Southern Song Dynasty under the influence of the new social and cultural trend of thought.Finally,the discussion style and scholarly thoughts of this book have had a certain impact on later scholars. |