光绪二十六年,朱祖谋应王鹏运之邀参与校注《梦窗词》并开始学习梦窗词风。他四校梦窗词,填词用梦窗韵或和梦窗韵,编纂《宋词三百首》并笺注、评点、诠释梦窗词旨,日益崇尚梦窗词风。辛亥易代后,他流寓沪、苏之间,积极参与文人筵饮、雅集、诗词社团社课以及交游活动,培养、奖掖后进词人,在民国词坛上掀起"梦窗热"。活跃在此时期的同光体诗派深受其影响,词学也由宗尚浙西、常州二派逐渐转变为推崇"梦窗"及彊邨词风。朱祖谋将晚清四大词人推崇的梦窗词风流播到全国流域,一代词学风会为之转移。
In 1899,Zhu Zu-mou,at the invitation of Wang Peng-yun,joined in the annotation work for Ci of Mengchuang,and therefore began familiarizing himself with Ci of Mengchuang style. He collatedand annotated Ci of Mengchuang four times,commented and interpreted Ci of Mengchuang style,composed poems in Mengchuang style,and compiled 300 Poems of Song Dynasty,adoring increasingly to Mengchuang style. After the revolution of 1911,he stayed around Shanghai and Jiangsu,participating in the feast drink,poetry and literature societies,involving himself in service activities,training excursion,cultivating new poets,and stimulating a hot pursuit of Mengchuang style in the Ci circle of the Republic of China. Poets of Tongguang School that time were greatly influenced by his practice,and their style accordingly began taking a turn from Zhexi and Changzhou schools to Mengchuang. Thus,Zhu Zu-mou,imparting Mengchuang style wide to the country,made a change in the style of Ci-poetry of the time.