Abstract: In recent years the publication of collections of desultory essays and proses by individual scholars has become a growing fashion, constituting a conspicuous landscape of “proeses by scholars”. Take Yi Tang Xun Zong by Zhao Yuan, some theme and style features of proses by contemporary scholars can be analysed. These proses and desultory essays are virtually a garrulous pouring of their loneliness, Which tells more about their academic aptitude and spiritual makings as well as the peculiar inner information as individual lives.

Key words: proses by scholars, Yi Tang Xun Zong, spiritual makings, rough going