梁橋是明代眾多「不獲世用」的士子之一，他雖以貢舉得官，卻職卑權輕，有志難伸，只得辭官歸里，隱居以終。但他選擇以纂輯詩學著述──《冰川詩式》，來建構自我在仕宦用世之外的成就與價值，希望能獲得世人的聆聽、尊重與認同。他在書中採取特別的纂輯手法，將紊雜繁瑣的前代詩法、詩式，重新分類整編，為初學者學畫出循序漸進的學詩階梯，也將詩學論述系統化，成為詩學傳播與接受過程中最為基礎的讀物，因此該書不惟在中土屢見傳刻，也東傳日本，成為日本人接受中國詩學的途徑之一。除此，梁橋也利用是書夾帶自己的詩作，並自創新的詩體，使之成為詩歌寫作的學習典範。由梁橋其人，可以窺見明代未能進入社會主流價值體系的士子，如何以詩學著述來建構自我的成就與價值，而《冰川詩式》則記錄著明代詩學傳播的方式與軌跡，也是明代詩壇復古風氣的一個標誌。

Liang Chiao 梁橋 was one of many scholars during the Ming dynasty who never made it in the imperia1 bureaucracy. He was recommended to the court at one point by his local government but resigned and returned to his home­town to live his life out in sec1usion after fai1ing to obtain any important appointments. After his return home, he compiled Bing Chuan Poetry Patterns 冰川詩式 in an attempt to establish a sense of self-worth and accomplishment outside the wor1d of officialdom and in the hopes of winning respect and recognition. In this book, Liang Chiao disti11ed the intricacies of poetry patterns from prior dynasties into systematic classificationsthat provided a c1earsequence of learning for people beginning to study poetry. This book became a basic reader on poetics in China and found an audience in Japan among people interested in Chinese poetry and poetics. Liang Chiao also inc1uded his own poems in this book and created new poetic forms that became models for writers of the time. In Liang Chiao, we can see a scholar who was unable to live up to mainstream values during the Ming dynasty and instead created his own sense of self-worth and accomplishment through writing on poetics. Bing Chuan Poetry Patterns is a record of the disseminiation of poetics and served as a banner for the revival movement in Chinese poetry during the Ming Dynasty.