《汉书·艺文志》为何不录《楚辞》

Why Chronicles of the Han Dynasty·Bibliraphic Treatise Had Not Included Chuci (Elegies of Chu)

据王逸《楚辞章句》知刘向曾编《楚辞》一书。然《汉书·艺文志》不收是书,其原因殆为刘向《别录》未录,刘歆因之不收,班固亦不"入"。其所以如此,当是在其时的著述观念中,学术等级严明,编辑之学尚未成熟,也无地位,因而不被重视,刘向亦不以此为功。

It is learned from Wang Yi's The Chapters and Sentences of Elegies of Chu that Liu Xiang had compiled the book Chuci (Elegies of Chu). However, the book had not been included in his masterpiece Chronicles of the Han Dynasty ·Bibliraphic Treatise. The reasons were that Liu Xiang had not included it in his works at first, followed by Liu Xin and Ban Gu. All in all, this had attributed to the serious academic classrank and the undermature and no status of compiling at that times, so it had not been paid attention to and Liu Xiang considered it as a problem rather than an achievement. 