This paper starts by using the Shi shen 詩瀋 by Fan Jiaxiang 范家相 to show that while Fan’s understanding of The Book of Songs 詩經 emphasized the interpretations of the Mao School 毛詩 and Zhu Xi 朱熹 equally, that balance was predicated on a serious misunderstanding of Zhu. Fan’s respect for the Mao School pervades his later work Sanjiashi shiyi 三家詩拾遺, and his motive for trying to restore the Three Schools 三家詩 was, in fact, to save them from obscurity so they could compete with the Mao School on equal footing and thereby accentuate the superiority of the Mao School. Wang Yinglin 王應麟 undertook Zhu’s unfulfilled wish to compile the lost writings of the Three Schools for a different reason, namely to provide a counterpoint to the Mao School and prevent it from monopolizing the interpretation of The Book of Songs. Despite their different motives, the two scholars both succeeded in making significant contributions to restoring the long-lost commentaries of the Three Schools. In particular, the organization of Fan’s book, the layout of one of its chapters (三家《詩》源流 The Origin of the Three Schools), and his application and adaptation of methods for restoring lost works deeply influenced later compilers and played an important role in the history of the compilation of the Three Schools.