1. When reading ancient books and articles, you must understand the environment and ambitions of the ancients. (Wang Rongsheng)

2. Memorizing famous poems is very necessary. This method seems clumsy, but it is actually ingenious. It can make the image, artistic conception, style, rhythm, etc. in classical works engraved in one's mind, which will never be erased in a lifetime. Therefore, it is possible to understand them very deeply because of being very familiar with them ("Zhan Zhan Lu")

3. The article seems to look at the mountains but not like the level (Yuan Mei)

4. Every article After it came out, all the scholars and officials wrote, satirized and recited it. Just see that it is completely natural, don’t correct the marks made by axes and chisels. ("Feixuelu")

5. Observation is not a mechanical reflection. It is different from viewing, but has a purpose. The purpose is the subject's expectation. Without expectation, it is often turned a blind eye. (Sun Shaozhen)

6. Understand the rules of language in practice. Everyone’s learning methods are different. (Wu Zhonghao)

7. Reading is not mysterious, it is nothing more than the assimilation and adjustment from the surface to the deep between the reader's subject, the text's subject and the author's subject. (Sun Shaozhen)

8. To understand and explain an article clearly, the key is to understand its style. (Qian Liqun)

9. When writing about personal experiences, jump out of yourself; when writing about social themes, put yourself into it. (Zhou Xiaotian)

10. Literary nobles are complacent, and books should not be passed down by ear.

(Yu Yongzheng)