Abstract: Li Han and Li Zhouhan cited Hanshu for Yang Xiong as a biography, but the former mistook Yang’s death time 20 years early because of negligence and the latter’s citation is not from Hanshu. The author of North Expedition thought that Hanshu to which Li Shan and Li Zhouhan referred was not real Hanshu, the former misled by subconsciousness and the latter referred the contents of the theory of tributary. The “Chen Liuchang” in “The Collection” by Li Shan was originally supposed to be “Chen Liu Changyuan county magistrate”. The Book of Later Han quoted by Li Zhouhan contained content that is not part of that book. The “Song Yu, Ying Ren” in Shih Chi quoted by Lyu Xiang did not come from the historical records. From the prospective of “mistaking”, in terms of the four examples in this article, Li Shan’s mistakes were mostly due to negligence and unconsciousness. But the problem of “five Officials’ annotation” resulted from its compiling way itself.

Key words: Wen Xuan, commentary on titles, commentary on authors, citations, subconsciousness