此书旧题“陈吴兴姚最撰”。《唐书·艺文志》记为“姚最撰”, 郭若虚《图画见闻志》卷一“叙诸家文字”则在“姚最”前多一“陈”字。这两处记载都出自北宋,是现存关于此书的最早的著录。二者在作者这个问题上没有分歧——一致肯定为姚最,而且后来的文献也没有与之不同的意见。因此似乎没有任何理由去做怀疑。 但是,由于研究者早已经发现姚最实际上不是陈朝人,从而使人有理由怀疑郭若虚记载的可靠性。由于这条纪录不是正文,而是正文下的小字注释,所以它是否是郭若虚所做就成了首要的问题。但是从这个书目所具有的严格的时间顺序来看,答案似乎是肯定的。而稍晚一些的郑樵却在《通志·艺文略》里把姚最记为 The book title “Chen Wuxing Yao most essays.” “Tang Shu Yi Wen Zhi,” recorded as “Yao most essay,” Guo Ruoxu “Picture See Me” a volume “Syria Zhu words” in the “Yao most” before a “Chen” word. These two records are from the Northern Song Dynasty, is the earliest existing book about this book. There was no disagreement on the issue of authorship between the two - Yao was the most affirmed, and later the literature did not differ. So there seems to be no reason to doubt it. However, as the researchers have long since discovered that Yao is actually not a Chen observer, people have reason to doubt the reliability of Guo Ruoxu’s account. Since this record is not a text, but a small note in the text, it is the primary question whether it is done by Guo Ruoxu. But judging from the strict chronology of the bibliography, the answer seems affirmative. And later, Zheng Qiao actually recorded Yao as the most important one in “Annotated Art and Essays”