Folk literature is an important conveyer of common people's culture. In folk literature, there is not only the literature itself, but also custom, beliefs and languages, all of which are preserved through careful and faithful record keeping. No matter which historical period people are in, there has always been someone who undertook to collect works of folk literature. For example during the Japanese Colonial period,平澤丁東,片岡巖,稻田尹, Tenn Khun-ngo, Li Hian-chiong, and people who put out numerous literary and arts magazines were some of the people who made an effort to collect Taiwanese literary works and expressions of culture. In the post Second World War period there were people like Go Eng-to(吳瀛濤), Kho Siong-hui(許常惠),Su Ui-liang(史惟亮) and O Ban-chhoan(胡萬川). However, until now no one has made a systematic study of the process of literary collecting Therefore in this paper, as a start we will take a look at folk song collections in Taiwanese literature as one element of culture in Taiwanese literature. A vertical timeline is used, with the people involved in the collection process represented on intersecting horizontal lines. The methods we use include collection, reading and interviewing. Afterwards we will study and analyze the data to make some sense of the process of literary collection during different time periods. We hope this paper may serve as a guide and inspiration to other scholars who want to study and construct the history of the Taiwanese literature collection movement.