Abstract: In the theoretical summary and critical interpretation of the literature development history of the Song Dynasty (960 A.D.—1297 A.D.) and previous dynasties,the Song scholars gradually created a conscious view of poetry history and formed a self-contained narrative discourse of literary history,which is mainly carried out in five categories:chronology theory,literary venation theory,literary genres theory,paradigm theory and faction theory.By combining the expression methods such as distinguishing time periods by years,establishing the atlas of classic characters,and naming literary models and poetic schools,they formed a cross connected literary history narrative chain and built the basic framework of the literary history of the Song Dynasty.Abundant topics for discussion embedded in a large number of intertextual documents on poetics provide future scholars with an immersive historical horizon and original theoretical resources.

Key words: the Song Dynasty, view of literary history, narrative discourse of literary history