China's first systematic grammar book is

Ma Shi Wen Tong is China's first book to study China's grammar with modern linguistic theory, which is of epoch-making significance in the history of China's linguistics. This famous grammar book was written by 1898. As a pioneering work, it has always been difficult to read and use.

Ma Shi Wen Tong is a Chinese grammar book edited by Ma Jianzhong and the first systematic Chinese grammar book in China. This book pioneered China's grammar. Taking ancient Chinese as the research object, this book successfully introduced western grammar into China, established the first complete Chinese grammar system, and laid the first cornerstone of modern linguistics in China. Ma Shi Wen Tong combines China tradition and foreign theories and methods to study China's own problems, which sets an example for learning foreign theories and methods. Referring to Latin grammar system and China's remarks about function words, Ma Jianzhong created a set of Chinese grammar system after long-term sorting and collection.