挚虞是西晋重要的礼学家、史学家和文学家。在礼学方面,他主持修订了荀■的《新礼》,其议礼文字在《晋书·礼志》中占有重要的篇幅。他的史学著作,为《隋书·经籍志》著录或提及的有《族姓昭穆记》、《畿服经》、《三辅决录注》和《文章志》等。他还是贾谧“二十四友”的成员,参加尚书省同僚的诗歌唱和。他所编撰的《文章流别集》,是我国历史上第一部诗文总集,其中的文论部分,考镜源流、辨别文体,在文体学 Zhi Yu is an important etiquette, historian and writer in the Western Jin Dynasty. In respect of rituals, he presided over the “New Ceremony” of revising Xun ■, and his ritual writing occupies an important space in “Jin Shu Li Zhi”. His works of history, for the “Sui Shu · Ji Zhi Zhi” recorded or mentioned in the “family name Zhao Mu Ke”, “Ji Su Jing”, “San Fu Suo Shao Annotation” and “article Zhi” and so on. He is also a member of Jia Mi’s “Twenty-Four Friends”, singing and singing poems by his colleagues in Shangshu Province. He compiled the “collection of articles”, is the first episode of poetry in our history, one part of the literary theory, the source of exams, identify the style, in stylistics