本书由历代名句中涉及草木虫鱼的名句汇集而成，分为花柳草木、鸟兽虫鱼两部分，作者对每个名句的出处、译文都进行了注解。(This book is gathered by famous sentences involving grass, wood, insects and fish for generations, and is divided into two parts: flowers, willows, grass and wood, and bird, beast, insects and fish. The author gives annotation to the origin of every sentence and its translation.)