The content includes: an overview of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the article Jugong Han Yu, Liuhedong Liu Zongyuan, Liuyi layman Ouyang Xiu, Su Laoquan Su Xun, Dongpo layman Su Shi, Yingbin relic Su Che, Wang Jinggong Wang Anshi, and Zhongshusheren Zeng Gong. The contents include: Sima Xiangru's gifted talents, Cao Zhi's eloquent diction and his eloquence of Luo Shen, Han Yu's literary decline in the Eight Dynasties, Ouyang Xiu's articles to carry on the past and open up the future, Luo Guanzhong's beginning to write Zhang Hui style novels, Cao Xueqin's peak novels in the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Jingzi's classical satirical novels, etc.