由于缺乏可资研究的材料,尤其是缺乏较为丰富的作品材料,较之唐诗、宋词的研究,20世纪60年代之前的元人散曲的研究,一直举步维艰。而之所以作品材料难找,则在于:一、现存的曲集,无论是元人别集还是元明选本,其中都有一些罕见的本子,甚至海内孤本,这些本子不易得到。二、元代的散曲作家,有别集流传下来的只有张养浩、乔吉、张可久、汤式四人,其余作家的作品,都是零碎地分散在若干种曲选、曲谱、词集以及不属于词曲类的典籍里面。而且,元代散由{作家流传下来的作品数量一般 Due to the lack of materials available for study, especially the lack of abundant materials, the study of Tang poetry and Song Ci before the 1960s has been struggling. The hard work to find the materials of the works lies in: First, the existing music collection, whether it is a meta-set or the Yuan and Ming dynasties, which have some rare book, or even a domestic version of the books are not easy to get. Second, Yuan Dynasty’s Sanqu writers, apart from the collection of only Zhang Yanghao, Georgie, Zhang Kejiu, soup four, the remaining writers’ works are fragmented scattered in a number of kinds of music, music, words and do not belong Song class classics inside. Moreover, the Yuan Dynasty scattered by {writers handed down the number of works in general