Zou Yisheng "thinks but is lazy to write", and there are not many works. A large number of manuscripts are only recorded as memos, which is very unsystematic. Zou didn't have the financial ability to publish books for himself when he was alive. It was not until his death that some of Zou's manuscripts were printed and circulated with the support of some scholars in Guangdong.

Zou's posthumous works were mainly published in the form of Zou's suicide note and Zou's manuscript, which made him famous behind him. The most important one, Supplement to Shu Ge, was reprinted by Ding Qu, a famous figure and mathematician in Changsha, Hunan Province, and Yin Jiaxiu was invited to make supplementary comments. Finally, I know Zou's contribution to print Hunan Baifutang, which is recognized as one of China's scientific and technological masterpieces in the late Qing Dynasty. His most influential prose is A Record of Photography, which is the pioneering work of China's common use of the word "photography".