典籍对《世本》作者记载情况较为混乱,今汇集文献中各家说法,分古史官说、左丘明说、刘向说、宋衷说等八类进行综析。其中,认为刘向本只是一个整理本而非注本,宋均为注者而非撰者,并推断《世本》一书的性质属于不断累加而成的总谱。 Classics on the “world” the author records the situation is more chaotic, this collection of various statements in the literature, divided into ancient history official said, left Qiu Ming said Liu Xiang said Song Zhong said eight categories. Among them, Liu Xiangben thought that this book was a collated version of the book rather than an annotated one, and that Song was a commentator rather than an autobiographer, and concluded that the nature of the Book of Worlds belongs to an increasingly cumulative score.