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Lun is one kind of styles of imperial examinations and has a long history. The court employed people by Jingyi in Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty.But it employed people by Lun and Ce in Song dynasty. Lun played an important role in the official career of people. So Lun was possessed of very great status in the imperial examinations of Song dynasty. And people collected many articles, compiled and printed them to make examinees feel more convenient. But existent anthologes of SongLun are few. Now the relative integrated anthologes have LunXueShengChi compiled by Wei Tianying and remarked by Lin Zichang, ZhiZhaiLunZu written by Chen Fuliang, and LunFan written by Ouyang Qingming and so on. Other single articles are in corpora of literator.LunXueShengChi is the most comprehensive anthology in existent anthologes of SongLun. It collected excellent articles of imperial examinations and outstanding articles written by Chen Fuliang and so on in every time from early time to late time of Southern Song. So this anthology can reflect the panorama of Lun in Song dynasty generally. And this anthology has detailed remark so that we can find all kinds of requests of Lun in Southern Song dynasty. So LunXueShengChi has active significance to study SongLun profoundly.The thesis is consisted of three parts.The first part is about textual research of general situation and background of LunXueShengChi. This part has simple introduction about the things of writers to have more embedded comprehension about social background of SongLun.And we can have clear comprehension about developmental venation of SongLun.The second part is about the configuration, formula of writing, style and theme of article of Lun. From these ,we can find the Lun`s influence to subsequent eight-part essay and analyse the difference between imperial Lun and nongovernmental Lun.The third part is about literary character of Lun. It studies the mutual influence between Lun and ancient prose. From the analysis of literary character of comment, we can discover literary character of Lun.