Song Dynasty Book Collection was compiled by Vae in Yongle Dadian during Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. Vae (178 1- 1848) was a famous geographer in Qing dynasty. He is the author of Western Regions Waterway 12 Volume, Notes on the Geography of Hanshu, Supplementary Notes on the Biography of Hanshu in Western Regions, Xinjiang Fu, etc. Qing Jiaqing began to compile All Tang Wen from middle school and entered the library as a "full official". The 500-volume Song Yao Hui compiled under the full name in Da Dian has made an indelible contribution to the preservation of the original documents of the Song Dynasty.

The 366-volume manuscript collection of Song Dynasty is divided into 17 branches, such as imperial clan, empresses, music, ceremonies, costumes, ritual system, Switzerland, calendar, Confucianism worship, official, election, food, criminal law, military, local, barbarian, Taoism and Buddhism. Rich in content and huge in quantity, it can be called the source of historical materials in Song Dynasty. However, due to many editing errors, it has been difficult to understand.

Liu ling, deputy director of the Institute of Ancient Books Arrangement of Sichuan University, said that this book is also one of the most difficult ancient books in China. There are many fractures, scattered, repetitions and errors in his manuscript, and his writing is full of errors, deviations, extensions and errors. Now it can be used for academic research after decades of proofreading by experts from the Institute of Ancient Books of Sichuan University.

In the 1990s, the Institute of Ancient Books Arrangement of Sichuan University cooperated with Harvard University and the Institute of History and Language of Academia Sinica of Taiwan Province Province, and the Institute of Ancient Books of Sichuan University was responsible for proofreading and produced the electronic version of Song Yao Ji Yuan. In 2009, the Institute of Ancient Books of Sichuan University reached a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House. Based on the above-mentioned electronic version, the Institute of Ancient Books of Sichuan University was updated, refined, refined and processed, with a view to becoming a collation of ancient books with high academic level. There are about 15000 proofreading notes in the electronic version of Song Collection, while the proofreading version of Song Collection has reached more than 33000, and the original proofreading notes have been added, deleted and rewritten in many places.