在宋朝或更早的時代已經傳說：〈輞川圖〉稿本出於王維本人之手，又說：王維輞川別業捨建的清源寺，就在藍田縣南的輞谷中，後來還更名為鹿苑寺。因而長期以來，〈輞川圖〉被視為尋訪王維輞川別業和《輞川集》二十景遺跡的導覽。本文將揭開〈輞川圖〉與《輞川集》之間的關係，並依唐宋元明清的時序，解說〈輞川圖〉與「輞川別業在輞谷內」說法的形成，與其錯誤之所在。

Legend from Song dynasty or even earlier has it that the draft of "Wangchuan tu" was drawn by Wang Wei; the legend also states that Wangchuan Villa was converted into the Qingyuan Temple, which later was renamed as the Luyuan Temple. Because of this, “Wangchuan tu” has long been viewed as a way to inquire after Wang Wei’s Wangchuan Villa and a guide of the twenty remains in the Collected Poems of Wangchuan. This paper aims to reveal the relation between "Wangchuan tu" and the Collected Poems of Wangchuan, as well as try to explain how the beliefs regarding “Wangchuan tu” and the idea that “Wangchuan Villa is in the Wang valley” formed and the mistakes associated with it, as seen through various developments from the Tang dynasty through the Qing.