范文瀾所撰《文心雕龍注》，除廣徵學者眾說，辨正諸本同異外，復能博稽精考，補遺刊衍，闡明《文心》旨歸。梁啟超序《講疏》云：「徵證詳覈，考據精審，於訓詁義理，多所發明」，然其薈通眾說，發凡未見，必有其方法，以期能綱舉目張，理義自明。故本文歸納范注之體例與優點，以見其方法之運用：前者重在校勘之方法與引文標目及注釋的分析，繫以注文為據；後者則從龍學研究的歷史角度，闡述是書之優點與價值，務求更系統性的顯現范注的特色。

In order to clarify the objective of Literary Mind and the Carving of
Dragons, Annotation of the Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons written by Fan Wen Lan not only included huge amount of other researchers’ theories, compared and contrasted the similarities and differences between various versions, but also carefully investigated in a way to supplement what previous researches had missed. In the preface of Jiang Shu, Liang Qi chao wrote:“The textual research of it is true and detailed with insightful interpretation of meanings of words”. For Liang to say so, Fan must have achieved a great deal in a very unique way. Thus, by direct quoting the words from this book, this paper aims to induce the merits and structure of Literary Mind and the Carving of
Dragons, to explain the methodology used to expound and prove, hence to
demonstrate the prestigious status and value of this book in history.