The typical form of
miscellaneous comments on poems appeared in Song dynasty, which had quite a few profound reasons in society,
history, culture, literature itself etc. Literati had a rather high status in Song. The rising and independent position of the literature criticism in bibliography in Song dynasty showed that the literature criticism of Song was a kind of highly self-conscious literary criticism. The rouse of Song poem began with reviewing and appreciating Tang poem, comprehending and tasting anecdotes of Tang scholars. All of the above-mentioned were generalized into some kind of works like
miscellaneous comments on poems. Style entered into a golden period when it developed to Song dynasty. The classical Chinese great masters themselves took the lead of writing something like
Miscellaneous comments especially on poems. The system of official schools, the foundation and rapid development of the local academy objectively met the people's needs for education. The flourish of lettering and paper making, made numerous contemporary and classical documents and literature widely spread. The amount of books that Song scholars read and collected was much larger than that of those before them, so the rich knowledge made Song scholars had much more confidence and the consciousness of boasting their scholarship. In fact, "Versifying with scholarship "and "Enjoy commenting" also hastened the birth of miscellaneous comments on poems .