唐中宗景龙年间设置修文馆学士一事，见载于多种典籍，但矛盾之处颇多，似乎没有绝对准确的记载。通过对相关典籍的比勘考证，可知景龙二年、三年、四年皆有选任修文馆学士之事，在这三年中任过学士的共有二十九人，与《玉海》叙录《景龙文馆记》所云学士数吻合。但《绀珠集》、《类说》、《唐会要》、《新唐书》等典籍中所说的“大学士四人，学士八人，直学士十二人”，只是景龙二年设置修文馆时计划员数，在随后的实际操作过程中，三类学士的确切员数都与原计划不符。景龙修文馆学士重形式尚技巧的宫廷文学创作活动，虽然在当时影响甚大，在唐代文学中占有一定地位，但总体上价值不高，某种程度上阻碍了初盛唐文学的良性发展。

Academicians and Literature Actions of the Institute for the Cultivation of Literature of the Tang Dynasty Hu Xu, Hu Qian

There are many contradictory records about the positions of academicians of the Institute for the Cultivation of Literature being established during the Jinglong years in the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang. Through comparative research of related classics, it can be known that academicians of the institute were selected in every year of A.D. 708, 709, and 710. In these three years, the number of the academicians were 29 in total, which was consistent with the number in “A Record of the Institute for the Cultivation of Literature in the Jinglong Years.” Yet the numbers of “four Grand Academicians, eight Academicians, and twelve Auxiliary Academicians” recorded in classics such as Institutional History of Tang and New Book of Tang were merely planned numbers when the institute was established in A.D. 708. In the subsequent actual operation, none of the exact number of three kinds of academicians coincided with the original plan. Although the literature actions of the academicians advocating form and technique were quite influential at that time and played a role in the Tang literature, those actions were trivial as a whole, and even impeded the benign process of literature in early Tang.