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This thesis attempts to make a research on the literary criticism and annotations of Wenxuan of Ming and Qing Dynasty based on the social backgrounds, academia, and literary thoughts of that period together with the development of literary criticism and annotations itself.According to different purposes and authors, this thesis classifies the criticism and annotations of Wenxuan into three categories: the commercial comments, the literary comments, and the integrated comments. From the commercial comments to the literary ones, the comments saw the changes of commercial profits to literary criticism. Influenced by the afore-mentioned two types, the integrated one was created which had two functions. The three types show a glimpse of various literary attitudes of different historical periods and the present thesis will discuss these works according to the chronological order.The introduction defines the object of this thesis and recalls the history of research on the comments on Wenxuan.Chapter 1 mainly summarizes the comments on Wenxuan including its different versions, different periods of development, geographical characteristics. The value of these comments is also analyzed in this chapter.Chapter 2 discusses the comments on Wenxuan which were produced in Wanli Period of the Ming dynasty. During this period, the commercial comments flourished and the literary comments burgeoned as well. This chapter attaches great importance to the changes of the former to the later as well as their literary criticism value.Chapter 3 and 4 research the works produced during the blooming period. The literary comments accounts for the majority which is also one of the focus of these two chapters. By taking several works as examples which belongs to this type, the author of the present paper focuses on the following aspects: the life story of the authors, the publication and transmission of the works, their distinctive features, and their impact on the comments and annotations of Wenxuan. The other focus of these two chapters is the integrated comments.Chapter 5 delves into the commentary works of the last period with Zhaoming Wenxuan Jicheng and Wenxuan Jiping as two examples. On the one hand, this chapter focuses on the relationship between ZhaomingWenxuan Jicheng and Wuchen. On the other hand, this chapter discusses the value of Wenxuan Jiping in the history of the comments on Wenxuan considering its significant achievements. Given the unimportance of tongcheng school's comments to Wenxuan, this chapter only gives a very brief introduction of them.At last, this dissertation compares comments of Ming dynasty with those of Qing dynasty. Because of the differences in culture and academia, the comments to Wenxuan of the two dynasties are different in many aspects, such as the angle, the aim, the form, etc.