Abstract: It is always thought that the Records of the Elites in the Poetic Circles during the Reigns of Emperors Qianlong and Jiaqing was written by the poet Shu Wei (Tieyun) in the Qing Dynasty. It is only Qian Zhongshu who asserts that “it is sufficient to prove that Shu Tieyun is not the real author” according to the poem of the “Inscription of the Records for Senior Ye Ting” in the collection of Bei Qingqiao’s works in the Qing Dynasty. However, Qian’s opinion is suspicious. We can see that the book was absolutely not written by Ye Zhangting according to the following elements: the scholars’ elegant manners at that time, no objections from the poets mentioned in Records, and the interactions between Ye Ting, the collector of the book and the author of the “Inscription”. The explicit statements in the works of Ye’s then prove that the book was really written by Shu Wei.