《楚辞章句》前人皆以为是刘向所定、王逸所注之本，近人或又以为《楚辞释文》是旧本。实际上刘向之时《楚辞》仅初具规模，王逸之后，编者注家或依己意，篇目、篇次、卷数以至注释之语等仍时有变更，而经历代传抄翻刻，至误至疑处自不在少数，故与原来面目距离渐远。则今世之人并不该也不可能以一二例证判定何者为旧本。 “Chu Clause” predecessors all thought it was Liu Xiang, Wang Yi’s note of this, recent or thought that “Chu Shen Shi Wen” is the old version. In fact, when Liu Xiangzhi’s “Chu Ci” only started to take shape, after Wang Yi’s rewriting, editors annotated their homes or according to their own wishes, the contents, the number of articles, the number of volumes and even the words of the notes were still changed from time to time, Doubt is not a minority, so faraway with the original face. Then the present and future generations should not and can not use one or two examples to decide which one is the old one.