China since ancient times, that is, attach importance to literature and its organization, classical literature has a long history. Academics on the "proofreading that literature" theory is not comprehensive, proofreading and catalog are ancient literature. Chinese classical bibliography has collation bibliography, directory bibliography, wide school collation bibliography three schools, three schools are from the organization of Confucius' canon, to the beginning of the Han began to diverge. School collation bibliography focuses on the screening and arrangement of documents, centered on collation; directory bibliography focuses on the collection and arrangement, reveal and use, centered on directory; wide collation bibliography focuses on the interpretation and arrangement of documents, compilation, centered on the discipline, directory, collation, version is only its tools. The main body of classical Chinese literature is literature organization, "discerning chapter academic, examination mirror source and flow" is the essence of classical literature.

China has attached great importance to literature and its organization since ancient times, and the long origin of literature, the many kinds of literature, the number of the vast, frequent organization, is a great sight. Since Confucius organized the books, which gave rise to the literature and its organization of specialized learning - literature. However, the origin and flow of Chinese literature is very complex, but in general, there are classical literature and modern literature, the author has made a special study. Specifically, classical bibliography is more complex than modern bibliography, due to the classical bibliography in the sects cross more, the discipline of the controversy, to clarify its origins of the original and the end, but also need to make a special study.

Chinese classical literature, collation literature, catalog literature, wide collation literature three schools, three schools are from the organization of the Confucian classics, to the Han and began to diverge. From the development of the three schools, there is a *** with the same characteristics: the three schools began in Han, Xing in the Song Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty and the heyday. This can be divided into four periods of the development of Chinese classical literature: the initial (pre-Qin), differentiation (Han-Sui-Sui), maturity (Tang-Song), integration (Yuan-Qing).

Proofreading literature and catalog literature at the same time in the Han Liu Xiang, Liu Xin, in its development, although there are different emphasis, but its relationship is very close, and influence each other, only because of the different schools of thought, understanding of the different, and their respective efforts to expand and seek to separate, proofreading directory of the controversy was born. Clearly distinguish between schools of thought, is conducive to resolving disputes, and complement each other's strengths. These two schools of proofreading, cataloging, is the origin of modern collation, cataloging, edition. Wide proofreading literature in the Han Zheng Xuan, expanded several times, until the name of the literature, the modern "bibliography" is not unrelated to the emergence of this.

Proofreading literature on literature screening and finishing, to collate as the center; directory literature on the collection and finishing, reveal and use, to directory as the center; wide proofreading literature on literature interpretation and finishing, compilation, to discipline as the center, directory, collation, version is only its tools. The collation literature focuses on the content of the literature, including textual revision, explore academic value, etc., cataloging is one of the results; catalog literature focuses on the form of the literature, both collation, the group book catalog is its main achievement; broad collation literature focuses on the compilation of the literature, including the interpretation and reorganization of the literature. Collate literature and catalog literature care about various academic streams, pay attention to academic breadth, examining encyclopedias of the source and flow, with the function of academic history, academic classification and classification of documents are inseparable; and wide collate literature usually related to a discipline, pay attention to academic depth, examining the source and flow of a subject, reflecting the function of subject history, literature organization and academic thinking into one.

The main body of Chinese classical bibliography is the collation of documents, collation, version, directory is the three bases of the documentation, "discerning chapter of the academic, examining the mirror of the source and flow" is the essence of classical bibliography. Through the development of various schools of bibliographers, the bibliography has accumulated rich ideas, matured various subdisciplines, and constructed the system of classical Chinese bibliography. Inheriting the excellent tradition of classical Chinese literature and developing modern literature is the necessary way for the development of Chinese literature.