Abstract: The argumentation concerning the differences between the original order of works in The Odes of Chu and those of The Annotation of the Verses from the Odes of Chu, cannot prove that the orders of the verses in The Annotation of the Odes of Chu are not the original ones in The Odes of Chu. There are three arguments that draw frequent attention. In the Annotation of the Verses from the Odes of Chu, the words “all explained in The Nine Debates” appeared in the annotation of The Nine Elegies, explained “Nine” in The Nine Debates and “summon” in The Requiem. All these merely indicate that Wang Yi’s version is possibly different from that of The Annotation of the Verses from the Odes of Chu. It is very likely that his annotation towards The Odes of Chu was based on Song Yu’s The Nine Debates. The contemporary versions of The Annotation of the Verses from the Odes of Chu are multitudinous, which roughly contain the annotations of five phases.

Key words: The Odes of Chu, the order of works, the order of notes