Ten Days in Yangzhou is a short essay written by Wang Xiuchu in the late Ming Dynasty about the massacre of Qing soldiers in Yangzhou, with about 8,000 words. Some people think that "because the Qing court banned Yangzhou from circulating for ten days, people knew nothing about it." Until the eve of the Revolution of 1911, someone printed this book from Japan and brought it back to China, so the authenticity of this book has long been controversial. " However, in the history book Xiaotian Chronicle. In the tenth volume publicly compiled during the reign of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty, the author quoted the contents of Ten Days in Yangzhou: "I said that if I read Wang's Ten Days in Yangzhou, I can say that I can suppress the yellow achievements of the Great Wall in Wan Li and say that he is an evil neighbor of history with ambition. This scholar is full of nonsense and has no sufficient theory. " It can be seen that there was a book called "Ten Days in Yangzhou" in China in the Qing Dynasty. Even the full text of "Ten Days in Yangzhou" was included in the History of Jing Tuo published in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, and the full text of "Ten Days in Yangzhou" was also included in the Collection of Ming History. This book was not destroyed in the Qing Dynasty.

Ten Days in Yangzhou is not long, only seven or eight thousand words, but it is beautifully written, with tense layout and profound description, which captures readers' hearts everywhere and arouses people's * * *, so some people think it is "no different from a natural mourning novel". This is not an exaggeration. For example, in the book, people trampled by iron hooves watched the fire and their homes were destroyed. The author's narrative description is mixed with grief and indignation: "The more the fire rages, the trees in the tomb are burned, the light is like lightning, the sound is like landslides, the wind howls, the sun is bleak, and there is nothing to do." At present, it's like seeing countless witches drive away and kill thousands of hell people, and expel them. Do you faint when you are afraid? I don't know if this body is in this world. "

In this paper, the Qing soldiers set fire to two places. Once, when the Qing army just entered the city, it was a big fire, which destroyed the remaining hope in people's hearts. The second description is that when people experienced the pouring of blood and fire in the hell on earth, even in the illusion, they seemed to see a hag shooting with a knife.

This kind of book that directly describes the atrocities of the Qing soldiers is naturally intolerable to the Qing Dynasty. In the fifty-third year of Qianlong (A.D. 1788), the Ministry of War played the emperor, requesting its destruction, which was immediately approved. Looking through the banned books in various provinces, this book is only available in Liangjiang, but the author is unknown and even the title has not been determined. It can be seen that the influence of this book at that time was limited, and it was no different from many official histories of the Ming Dynasty that were banned at that time. Ten Days in Yangzhou was rediscovered, and it was more than forty years after it was banned that the Jingtuo Story published in this world was published. Its historical value cannot be ignored. It also reflects the massacre of Yangzhou by the Qing army on the tenth day, including one volume of Yangzhou City Records by Hong Guang and Ji You and three volumes of Martyrdom of the Holy Dynasty. However, the value of this book is unique, as the author said, "It is all experienced and witnessed by everyone." It should be said that "it was not brought by someone who had heard of it in the distance" is more true and credible, although some people criticized it. For example, the old draft Zhao said: "If you look at it, it is not a market wash." But I have to admit: "What a tragedy!" In the Qing dynasty, there was a saying among the people that "Yangzhou had three butchers in Jiading on the tenth day". As can be seen from this book, this is the greatest value of the Qing army's history of blood and tears in the Central Plains.