Abstract: Lianxizhi is a kind of personage monograph about the Song Confucianism, Zhou Dunyi, which appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and so far no less than 10 kinds exist. This paper focuses on three versions of Lianxizhi engraved during the Wanli period and currently scattered in domestic and foreign libraries, and corrects some misconceptions that have been circulating for a long time. There are three main points in this paper. First, the version of Lianxizhi in 10 volumes hold in the Shanghai Library signed “Li Zhen Ji” actually is Xu Conghua and Xie Kuang’s collection in the 21st year of Wanli (1593) , which is the same as the version in 10 volumes hold in the National Library. They are both incomplete, but the complete version can be obtained when put them together. Second, the version of Lianxizhi compiled by Lin Xuemin in the 37th year of Wanli (1609) marked “nine volumes” and only collected in the Japanese Cabinet Library, in fact is a four-volume adaptation of Xu Conghua’s collection. This version not only contained nearly 50 poems more than Xu’s version, but also collected the portrait of Zhou Dunyi, therefore, it is acknowledged by many versions later and widely spread. Third, the so-called the version of “nine volumes of Lianxizhi compiled by Li Zhen” has been inherited by a variety of bibliographies and commentators for a long time since Siku Quanshu Zong Mu was written. However, it was actually adapted from Lin Xuemin’s version, which was still four volumes in scale and compiled by unknown editors in the late Wanli period. Among them, the Fujian Provincial Library’s collection is the copy of Siku Quanshu Cun Mu Cong Shu and Xu Xiu Siku Quanshu. The collection is widely distributed but has obvious wrong bookbinding, thus it is not a good version, while the copy hold in the Taipei Palace Museum is relatively perfect with only a few wrong binding. 

Key words: Wanli Period, Lianxizhi, Li Zhen, Inheritance relationship