During the Yuan-Ming period,along with the institutionalization of the civil service examination system, most of the notations to Shih ching took after Chu Hsi's Shih chi chuan. It was not until mid-Ming that, due to changes in the intellectual arena, Confucian scholars began to re-evaluate the Sung Learning and offered critical commentaries on the Sung writings which had been regarded as textbooks for the examinations. So far as Shih ching is concerned, a number of thesecritics in particular aimed at challenging Chu Hsi's viewpoints. Attracted by profits and offices,however,most of the examinees could hardly relieve themselves from the bounds of traditional interpretations. The dissenting ideas, therefore, have received little attention. What message do they carry? Are they valuable? Very few people could answer these questions. In view of such a situation, this essay studies Ch'en Tzulung's Shih wen lueh in the hope that a careful examination would explicate Ch'en's interpretation of Shih ching, including his refutation of Chu Hsi's ideas, and would, furthermore, illuminate the historical implications of these dissenting works in the study of the Chinese Classics.