梁启超在为青年所开的国学书目里曾经这样评价《礼记》:此书战国及西汉之“儒家言”丛编,内中有极精纯者,亦有极破碎者,吾 Liang Qichao once commented on “Book of Rites” in his book on the study of Chinese culture for young people: this book contains a series of “Confucian Words” compiled by the Warring States Period and the Western Han Dynasty. It contains extremely pure and extremely fragmented persons.