Song Shi Jishi (宋詩紀事, "Recorded Occasions of Song Poetry") is a compilation of historical accounts about poets of the Song dynasty. It was edited by the prominent Qing dynasty poet Li E. According to the author's preface, the process of compilation started from 1725, and took about 20 years to finish. The book comprises 100 volumes, discuss about 3812 Song Dynasty poets. Its style and structure imitated that of the 12th century book Recorded Occasions of Tang Poetry, there is one chapter for every poet, including a biography, several representative poems and comments.

The book preserved a lot of literature materials about Song poetry, and opened a pass for similar works such as Recorded Occasions of Liao Poetry, Recorded Occasions of Jin Poetry, Recorded Occasions of Yuan Poetry, Recorded Occasions of Ming Poetry and Recorded Occasions of Qing Poetry. Lu Xinyuan, a book collector of late Qing era, composed a book named Supplement to the Recorded Occasions of Song Poetry (宋詩紀事補遺, 100 volumes), discuss about another 3000 poets. Qian Zhongshu, a 20th-century Chinese scholar, wrote Emendations of Recorded Occasions of Song Poetry (宋詩紀事補正), corrected many mistakes and added more materials about Song poets to the original book.

宋詩紀事，宋代詩歌集，清代厲鶚輯，凡100卷。

《宋詩紀事》錄宋詩作者3812家，是自宋朝以來有關宋詩典籍中載錄兩宋詩人最多的，每位作家均係以小傳。厲鶚曾在自序中自稱其書「略具出處大概，綴以評論，本事咸著于編。其于有宋知人論世之學，不為無小補矣。」陸心源又著有《宋詩紀事小傳補正》、《宋詩紀事補遺》。

近人錢鍾書著有《〈宋詩紀事〉補正》，「是對厲鶚《宋詩紀事》的糾正和補充。糾正的內容有誤收、誤屬、張冠李戴，以及文字錯謬訛漏的情況；補充的內容有補人、補事和補詩三個方面。」，如卷四潘若衝之佚詩乃據《類說》卷二二引陶岳《荊湖近事》補《陽朔縣詩》所補。錢著《宋詩選注》是以《宋詩紀事》為線索檢得的。錢以為陸著《宋詩紀事補遺》「錯誤百出」，《宋詩紀事補正·題辭》中曾批評《宋詩紀事補遺》：「採摭雖廣，訛脫亦多，歸安陸氏補遺，買菜求益，更不精審。」。

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