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As a master of literary criticism, Jin Shengtan is concerned about the textual quality of a work and explores the nature of literary form. He mainly adopts the method of literary appreciation to analyze the beauty, ugliness, pros and cons of literary works, reveal the author's intention in writing, and guide readers on how to appreciate the text, thereby demonstrating the beauty of literary heart, diction, composition and analysis. This book attempts to summarize the characteristics of Jin Shengtan's formal criticism, explore how he grasps the meaning of text through form, and how he seeks the tension between emotion and rationality between art and science.