Summary of the Study about The Four Books in Song Dynasty

The emergence and evolution of the study about The Four Books in Song Dynasty is an important part of the Chinese intellectual history.Academia has acquired abundant research results about The Four Books study in Song Dynasty and the research paradigm tends to be diversified.In spite of this,there is still a lot of room for the improvement.On the one hand,the literature related to The Four Books in Song Dynasty needs to be further collected and neatened.On the other hand,The Four Books study in Song Dynasty should also absorb research methods of intellectual history,academic history and social history,and then analyze the interaction among the study and the society,politics and education,so as to achieve further development of The Four Books research.