文章是對南宋李心傳《道命錄》的綜合研究。
第一部分著意對《道命錄》的寫作作出新解。這裡認為前人皆未能對此書的性質有足夠深切的意識。不論是目錄記載將其歸為程朱政治行述，還是今人研究對李心傳推崇道學的質疑，皆忽視了《道命錄》文本本身的“矛盾”與李心傳在時代思潮下對道學敘事的構建。文章以為“道學救國”是《道命錄》真正的論點，而後從“道學救國”話語形成出發，發現是慶元黨禁與開禧北伐使得道學一方上承南宋以來流行的祖宗-仁宗-元祐君子治道敘事，如此“道學救國”才成為宣之於口的主張，於理宗朝後流行。但君子小人治道敘事實際上與道學運動仍有差異，特別是在北宋的元祐黨爭中，我們今天所理解的“道學”在當時的政治中並未能發揮太大的影響。李心傳本人恐亦有所知，只是在思想錯位之下仍需按此結構來敘述，故也努力構建元祐道學敘事，彌合差異。

第二部分是對《道命錄》流傳版本情況的介紹。這一部分前人工作已比較完善，文章實際上集中處理的是此書在元明流傳過程中的缺環。從《四庫提要》對所藏內廷藏本的記載出發，可以發現元程榮秀初刻十卷本與如今流傳的明清十卷本有相當的差距，而很有可能是明弘治本刊刻時作出的改動。所以以記載中的條目差距結合文本考察，有可能辨析出後加條目，復原程榮秀十卷本。也由此可以再觀李心傳五卷本的樣貌。

This article is a comprehensive study of DaoLife Record by Li Xinzhuan in the Southern Song Dynasty.The first part is intended to make a new interpretation of the writing of Tao Life Record.It is argued that none of the predecessors had a deep enough awareness of the nature of the book. Whether the catalog records classify it as Cheng Zhu's political narrative, or the contemporary research doubts Li Xinzhuan's praise of Daoism, both ignore the "contradiction" of Daolife Record itself and Li Xinzhuan's construction of Daoism narrative under the trend of times. The article thinks that "Taoism saves the country" is the real argument of "DaoLife Record", and then starts from the formation of the discourse of "Taoism saves the country", and finds that it is the Qingyuan Party's prohibition and Kaixi's northern expedition that makes the Daoist side adopt the narrative of ancestor Renzong and Yuanyou Junzi governing the Tao, which has been popular since the Southern Song Dynasty, so that "Taoism saves the country" has become an idea proclaimed in the mouth and popular after the Lizong Dynasty.However, there are still some differences between the narrative of the gentleman and the Daoist movement, especially in the Yuanyou Party dispute in the Northern Song Dynasty. "Daoism" as we understand it today did not exert much influence in the politics at that time. Li Xinzhuan himself may also know something, but he still needs to narrate according to this structure under the ideological dislocation, so he also tries to construct a meta-Daoist narrative to bridge the difference.

The second part is the introduction of the circulating version of Tao Life Record. This part of the predecessors work has been relatively perfect, the article actually focuses on dealing with the book in the Yuan and Ming dynasty circulation process of the missing ring. Starting from the records of the Inner Court collection in Siku Abstract, it can be found that there is a considerable gap between the original 10-volume edition of the Yuan Cheng Rongxiu and the 10-volume edition of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it is very likely that the changes were made when the Ming Hongzhi edition was engraved. Therefore, it is possible to distinguish and restore the ten volumes of Cheng Rongxiu by combining the gap between the entries in the record with the text investigation.From this, we can look at the appearance of the five volumes of Li Xin biography.