The author of the Gu Jin Tan Gui, Meng-Long Feng, adopted the ”shi-shou form” to classify the contents systematically. Within each category, Feng introduced various stories to express the same theme and added postscripts, footnotes to show his editing intention. Therefore, this paper aim to induce the style and characteristic of Gu Jin Tan Gai to explain the author's editing methodology application. The focus of the former part lies in the explanation of the classification, contents and the forms of the footnotes. The latter one is to demonstrate the feature and value of this book from critique viewpoint.