In study, work and life, people often come into contact with papers, which are tools for academic exchange. I believe that writing papers is a headache for many people. The following is a cultural paper about "Shen Wansan, Hubei Province" which I carefully arranged, hoping to help everyone.

Zhouzhuang, Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, has a genealogy of Shen Shi in Luochuan, Xiaogan City, Hubei Province. According to this preface, it was founded in the fifth year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1648), and was renewed by Jiaqing, Xianfeng and 1995 in the eighth year of the Republic of China. There are now ***28 volumes (volumes), which are divided into Complete Map of Ancestral Temple, Tracing to the Origin of Past Dynasties, Biography of Heroes of Previous Generations, Epitaph and Records of Arts and Literature, among which the most striking is the pedigree of Shen Wansan, a rich man in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

Spectrum: Six brothers, Shen Wansan, whose father is Shen Nailang; Shen Shi's six brothers have different experiences; Shen Wansan and his second son, Zong Qing, gave birth to a younger brother, Si Wan, who was renamed Cheng Si. Shen Guan is the ancestor of Shen Shi in Xiaogan, Hubei.

There are many records about Shen Wansan's pedigree in Luanchuan Shen Shi genealogy, the most detailed of which is the "pedigree table" in the second volume of Tracing the Origin: Shen Wansan's father, Miao Lang, is seventy-nine years old and has pledged "Liu Zi". This line in the spectrum is basically blank, except that he has six sons, including Shen Wansan.

Shen Wansan's six brothers are eighty years old. In case, bet on "the first meaning, Jiang Tongzhi (sic-author's note)"; Twenty-two thousand, bet on "Zhang Shicheng in the first year of Hongwu, stationed in Taihu Lake (sic-author's note), welcoming Zhongjun Wu (sic-author's note), Xu Da and the kings are hundreds of feet upstairs at home, offering mangoku and sealing generals in title of generals in ancient times"; Three thousand, bet "Hongwu wants to punish it, admonish it to the horse, and not die." He stayed in Yunnan for fourteen years, changed his name to Cheng Si, and stayed in Jiangnan "; Four thousand, gambling "sushi, the word Shichang, Hongwu takes it (should be" Jun "-the author's note) as the foreign minister of the Ministry"; Sixty-six thousand, seven thousand, bet on "the points of Wu Cheng, Gui 'an, Ren He and Zhu Yi".

Eighty-one * * * five. Liang Qing, in case of children; Yongqing, Wan Erzi; Zhong Qing, the eldest son of Wansan; , the word ChengJia, ten thousand people; , the word, the heir of,, Hong Weifeng Ningxia Wei, Kaifu Weizhou Group Animal Husbandry Institute and Ziguan and a title of generals in ancient times from.

Eighty-two * * * eight. Song, Bai, Jun, Qing, Cheng, Zhong, Jun and Guan. The last concept, Shen Guan, is the ancestor of Shen Shi in Xiaogan, Hubei.

The genealogy records Shen Guan's short-lived behavior and introduces the whole process of his birth in Nanjing, his move to Ningxia and his final settlement in Hubei: "An official, whose name is Guangyu, was born in Chaijiagang, Shanghe, outside Shuiximen, Jiangning County, Yingtianfu, Nanjing. From father to ancestor, moved to Ningxia Wei and Shaanxi. When Xu Gong was in Xiaogan, he was taboo about Yin. Because of Ningxia's experience, he mostly spoke with women. When Xu Gong became an official, he came to Xiaogan and lived in Hongle Township ... "

From the spectrum, Shen Wansan's six brothers all have different experiences. The second volume of Jiangning Genealogy briefly records this: "Only 14,000 yuan is booked. If you go to Kunshan, 22,000 yuan will travel to and from southern Hunan, and the rest will be moved to Zhejiang or Henan, but 13,000 yuan will be harmed by Ming Taizu, even if you can't stay in Yunnan." Although this passage is not long, it is very general, which clearly shows that among the six Shen Wansan brothers, only 14,000 people live a relatively moist life under Zhu Yuanzhang. The so-called "Zhong Ling" in this article means that everyone has a happy ending, and they can die with a good reputation, while the fate of the rest of the Shen Shi brothers is not so good.

Looking at Shen Wansan's family background from these records in the Book of Music, its narrative seems clear and smooth on the surface, which can be called "the time is very detailed, the blood relationship is very consistent, the tribe is very tight, and the cadence is very appropriate". However, a close reading of the essays in this score seems to be accompanied by the heartbeats of composers who are somewhat uncertain about Shen Wansan's family background.

Why this happens is worth exploring.

In fact, the score will be drafted tomorrow, but even so, more than 250 years have passed since Shen Wansan's time, and there are two extraordinary periods in between, which leads to the lack of exact information in Shen Wansan. Initiates don't know Shen Wansan's family background. He avoided "Shen Wansan" in the preface, and the story was told by others. Therefore, from the beginning, the reliability of Shen Wansan's family records in the spectrum has a "congenital deficiency" problem.

According to the founder Shen himself, he "edited" Shen Shi Luochuan Genealogy with grace from the fifth year of Qing Shunzhi (1648), but in fact his genealogy writing was basically completed more than 20 years ago. Why do you say that? The preface to the volume is Ye's Preface to Creation and Revision, which says: "In July this year, Gao Yu went home, resigned, contended, took genealogy and sought the preface." The "fighting bell" in the text refers to Shen; For people in this year, the writing time indicated at the end of Ye Wen's article is "Four Years of the Ming Dynasty Apocalypse", that is to say, as early as 1624, the "front page" manuscript of Shen Shi Genealogy was completed, and it was time to ask someone to preface it.

Ye not only pointed out the time when Zhuochuan Shen Shi Genealogy was first revised, but also mentioned the structure of the manuscript of Shen Shi Genealogy. The preface says: "I think there are old bamboo slips first, and then there are new bamboo slips, which have not yet become catalpa." It can be seen that the main content of this "front page" manuscript of Shen Shi's genealogy in Xiaogan, Hubei Province consists of two parts-the old bamboo slips (a summary of Shen Shi's old genealogy) and the new edition (the reproduction of Shen Shi in Xiaogan, Hubei Province at that time).

Then at the end of the preface, Ye wrote the following words: "At the last moment, the war is over, the old spectrum has not been established, and the new spectrum has not been published. If it is beautiful, the chapter on the table is flawed and slightly cut, it will be sensational without any judgment." These materials give people the impression that the behaviors of Shen Nailang and his 10,000 sons were not recorded in the old Shen Shi Genealogy because of the war at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, and the title page of Shen Shi Genealogy in Xiaogan, Hubei Province, which is called the "new edition", did not record them either, but it was only made according to people's views at that time, which shows that the words about Shen Wansan and his son in the genealogy were only Shen's ".

However, Shen had been separated from Shen Wansan and his son for more than 250 years, and there were two special periods in the middle: the war at the end of Yuan and the beginning of Ming, and Zhu Yuanzhang's attack on the "aristocratic family" in the south of the Yangtze River, that is, the rich family. Shen Wansan was the key target of Zhu Yuanzhang's attack. These three points make the situation of Shen Wansan and his son very unclear. For this last point, people in the early Ming Dynasty were afraid of the terrible high-pressure policy of property seizure and beheading and migration at that time, and they all adopted an evasive attitude towards Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion of cruelty and murder. Ye, the courtier of the Ming Dynasty, was particularly clear, but he could not mention it, nor did he dare to mention it, so he had to avoid talking about it and talk about it alone. But in fact, it is these three reasons that make the exact information about Shen Wansan less, and the related information error of later legends will be greater, and Shen Wansan will eventually become a confusing figure. Therefore, the reliability of the materials obtained by Shen's "interview" with Shen Wansan, a rich man, is naturally greatly reduced. It may also be for this reason that Shen made no mention of the Shen Wansan family in his Preface.

Now we have seen the problem of reliability "discount", and Ye Gao Xiang realized this 385 years ago. Therefore, in order to dispel people's thoughts, Ye particularly pointed out the objectivity of Shen's "interview": "There is no doubt about public opinion", and at the same time jointly praised Shen's historical "three forces" of "talent, learning and knowledge" embodied in his genealogy: "Alas, the post-scholars can rise with their perception. Yu Xifu's three talents are one, knowing that he can not only be at home, but also at home, so he began to write. "

Ye's composition is extremely beautiful and received rave reviews: First, he applauded the objectivity of Shen's interview and praised him for "telling the truth" about Shen Wansan's family history; Secondly, he raised Shen's work of compiling music to the level of compiling history, and called on people to compile music and write national history in the spirit of "telling the truth". Under such a high-profile infection, coupled with the official to the cabinet records of Ye, or the Ming Dynasty Wanli, Taichang, Apocalypse three generations of elders, can be described as "centralized" figures. With his "guarantee", people may question the reliability of Shen Wansan's family background in the spectrum.

Although a celebrity like Ye made a "guarantee" for Shen Wansan's family affairs in the genealogy, and later some people made comments to support it, people after Shen Shi, who continued to study the genealogy, still showed a sense of unease about the record of Shen Wansan's family background in the genealogy from time to time. ...

Ye's celebrity effect is quite obvious and lasting. The genealogy of Shen Shi in Luochuan was first updated in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. Xiao Guangyun, who prefaced genealogy and studied politics in Guizhou, recognized Shen Wansan's family background very much, and further developed it at the beginning of Preface to Genealogy: "Jun Jiangning's ancestor was 813, and his family was rich and hated the rich, so he avoided it and lost his surname, so he changed his surname with a son of 14 thousand." Si Wan paid for the meal, and Mao was very happy. Sun Jun, the founder of Si Wan, is a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For fourteen years, he entered Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of Shaanxi Province from Wang Qing. The ancestor of the monarch is Emperor Guangwu, so he is also the son of Ji Zi. "

Obviously, Xiao Guangyun explained here why Shen Wansan adopted his second son Zong Qing to Si Wan, which is a sensitive issue. Why do you want to explain? Is it because someone questioned Shen Wansan's family background in the spectrum at that time, and the reason of "being an heir" was not given in the spectrum, so the preface came forward to explain "making up Taiwan" to ensure its correctness?

But Xiaoguang's operation sequence, although it proves the correctness of Shen Wansan's family background, contradicts the writing method recorded in the spectrum-or he has the problem of not knowing Shen Wansan's family background. First, he confused Shen Wansan's seniority: from the genealogical point of view, Shen Wansan's father Yunlang is "seventy-nine" and Shen Wansan is "eighty", but Xiao Guangyun said in the article that "Jun Jiangning's father is 810,000, 300,000", which is wrong! The second is the time when he went to Ningxia, which is a bigger problem: Xiao Guangyun said it was "fourteen years in my heart" (138 1 year-author's note), but the line of worship in the spectrum was written as "Hongwu Xinwei" (139 1 year)

Of course, the first question may have an explanation. For example, Xiao Guangyun in Qianlong was quite old. We are closer to the era of Shen Wansan than we are now, so there should be no mistake. I'm afraid it's just a clerical error. Then why did this "clerical error" not be corrected during editing and become a "publishing error"? Especially in Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, eight years of Republic of China and 1995, why didn't you find this mistake? Instead, it became a "clerical error" of one mistake, three mistakes and four mistakes? As for the second question, I don't know what explanation will appear-because both time expressions in the spectrum are wrong. Looking up the History of Ming Dynasty and A Story of Ming Taizu, we can see that the king of Qing Dynasty was only sealed in Hongwu for twenty-four years (139 1), and it was not until twenty-six years (1393) that he was "sealed" to Ningxia! If this kind of mistake is also a "publishing mistake", people can't help asking: Are the Shen Shi composers in Xiaogan, Hubei Province very clear about Shen Wansan's family background?

On the other hand, in order to prove the reliability of Shen Wansan's family, there are other "statements" besides Xiao Guangyun's statement. For example, in the second volume of Jiangning Genealogy, we can see the following words: "In the second year, when Wu Gong came back from Zhenjiang, Ya Yi decided that there must be people who were afraid of me, taking his brother Dasikou and his genealogy. Since Chu, Zhejiang discussed the clan relationship, he compiled the old genealogy with Wu Gong, and all the people he visited in Jiangning drew the same picture. Today, the old family tree is still there. Looking at its text, I know that my family started from scratch and learned about the era of Xing Wu. "

The "Great Warrior" mentioned above is Shen's son, who is an official in Zhenjiang. According to the introduction in the genealogy, he and his father jointly founded the "front page" genealogy of Shen Shi, and also "interviewed" the Shen Wansan family. This passage shows that the genealogical record of Shen Shi, the front page of Xiaogan, Hubei, is exactly the same as that of Shen Shi, Xing Wu. The purpose of this statement is obvious, that is, to prove that the "interview" materials about Shen Wansan's family history by Shen and his son are reliable, and the following logic is that the records about Shen Wansan and his son in the Book of Music should also be reliable.

The author is very interested in the sentence "the old genealogy still exists today" in the above article, because this article does not indicate the writing time. It seems that the old genealogy here can be understood from two aspects: First, it refers to the "Zhuiyuan Genealogy" brought by Shen Wansan's ancestral home in Shen Shi. This is an important clue for us to study Shen Wansan now. In the future, we should pay special attention to the search for "Xing Wu"-the genealogy of Shen Shi in Huzhou today, in order to verify whether there is such a Shen Wansan family background. First of all, it refers to "realizing the old spectrum compiled by CCBA". If so, it would be a pity. Because Yi, a member of Shen Shi who participated in the first genealogy update later than Xiao Guangyun, said in the Preface of Jiaqing Five Years (1800): "From the genealogy revision year, 50% of this book was published late. Only after 150 years, during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, the "First Page Spectrum" compiled by Shen and his son has disappeared in the Shen Shi clan!

Therefore, although there are many "proofs" in the spectrum, the descendants of Shen Shi in Xiaogan, Hubei Province have always doubted the reliability of the Shen Wansan family. For example, although Xiao Guangyun has clearly declared in the preface of "The Beginning of the Spectrum" that "the ancestor of the monarch is Guang Yugong and also the son of Qi Huangong", that is, Shen Guan is the youngest son of Shen, even the fourth son, but he only wrote "Zi Guan" under "lineage table" and "Zong Qing" in the spectrum, as if Shen had only one son. Because of this contradiction, the problem of "the ancestor (that is, Shen Guan-the author's note) brothers, I don't know how many people there are, and I don't know the rank of the ancestor" was put forward in Volume II "The Time of Qin Chu". I know nothing about my ancestors, but can I know more about my grandfather and great-grandfather? Shen Wansan's family reliability always torments Shen Shi's descendants in Xiaogan, Hubei, so that they always feel insecure!

If we compare other records horizontally, there will be more doubts about Shen Wansan's family background described in this spectrum. There is no similar record in 126 Ming and Qing works recorded by the author. The obviously contradictory historical content of some words about Shen Wansan and his son in this spectrum also proves that the reliability of Shen Wansan's family in this spectrum is in doubt.

Shen Wansan's family background is recorded in some Ming and Qing works, but it is also copied from each other, and there are some oral rumors. Most of them have a certain "discount" on reliability, so be especially careful when quoting, and make a choice after further research. In the 126 Ming and Qing works containing Shen Wansan, there is no record of Shen Wansan and his son similar to Luanchuan Shen Shi's genealogy. However, among 126 kinds of Ming and Qing works, two books about Shen Wansan's family background are reliable: one is Tan Zhai Liu Ji written by Liu Sanwu in Ming Dynasty, and the other is Zhouzhuang Town Records in Qing Dynasty.

Why are the relevant records in these two books more reliable? After textual research, the author thinks that the former's information about Shen Wansan's family background is one of the earliest records that can be seen at present, and many works about Shen Wansan's family background in Ming and Qing Dynasties were copied or copied from this book; Although the latter was written in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, its record of Shen Wansan's father and son was unearthed epitaph, which was written in the 21st year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, a few years earlier than Liu Sanwu's publication of relevant information. The two can confirm each other, which is of course more valuable and reliable.

In the Collected Works of Mr. Liu in Tan Zhai, Liu Sanwu introduced the situation of Shen Wansan and his son in an epitaph written in the 24th year of Hongwu (139 1): "Before Han Jie, Xing Wu lived in Nanxun. His eldest father moved to Caidong Village in Changzhou, Suzhou. Because of his family, he loved his rice fields and loyal servants. ...... The second son Heng said, "You can have both." The second son of the world follows the first training and benefits the family. Long wealth, the word honor, that is, ten thousand three public; The second taboo is expensive, the Chinese word, four thousand male. Zhonghua's second son, Dechang, was the best, followed by Han Jie. "The tomb owner Shen is Shen's second son, Shen Wansan's nephew. Shen Wansan's family background expressed in the epitaph is clear.

Moreover, the author Liu Sanwu, an old Confucian in Hongwu period, was once a bachelor of Hanlin, and was ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to delete 85 remarks that offended the monarch in Mencius and compile it into Mencius Festival. It is worth noting that he introduced himself at the beginning of "Epitaph of Shen Wuxing"-"Since I brought my own official Chunfang Ci Garden, I have listened to the Hadith in shifts, first known as Wuzhong Shen Shi. At the beginning of the country, there were 10,000, 3,000 and 4,000 male brothers who led Zhejiang households and lost taxes. Yu Yinjia sighed for a long time. " This shows that he is not only a contemporary of Shen Wansan, but also a person who knows more about Shen Wansan. Therefore, there is no doubt about the authority and reliability of Liu Sanwu's account of Shen Wansan and his son.

More importantly, Shen Wansan's family background is confirmed in another epitaph unearthed in Daoguang of Qing Dynasty in Shen Shi Cemetery in Xingcun, northeast of Zhouzhuang-"Preface to the Epitaph of Shen Boxi": "Dr. Zeng moved to Changzhou from Nanxun, and found that the land was fertile, suitable for farming and because of his residence. The eldest father was rich and his inheritance was replaced. He is handsome and his children are strong ... Father Chang, handsome and thick, has two sons. When he grows up, it will be Bo Xi. " The owner of the tomb, Shen Boxi, is the grandson of Shen Wansan and the son of Wang Shen, the son of Shen Wansan. Author Lu Zinong, after Shen Wansan, is from Nanchang, Jiangxi and Kunshan. His uncle Lu Xiong is the editor of Suzhou Annals of Ming Hongwu. The epitaph was written in the 21st year of Hongwu (1388). This record is probably the earliest information about Shen Wansan's family history that can be seen at present.

Based on the above two epitaphs and sporadic records in other works, people can know the basic situation of Shen Wansan's family background: there are two sons, Shen Wansan and Shen; Shen Wansan and Shen each have two sons, Shen Wansan's two sons are Shen Maohe and Shen's two sons are Shen Dechang and Shen. ...

But these situations are completely different from those described in Luochuan Shen Shi's genealogy-Shen Nailang has six sons-one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand, six thousand, seven thousand and so on! If we don't talk about "3,000 Shen Gong is rich" and "Ming Taizu wants to harm it, but it's too late to remonstrate it, although Yunnan can't defend it", people are likely to regard this "Hubei Shen Wansan" and Shen Wansan as two completely different people!

From this point of view, most of the information of Shen Wansan and his son contained in Luochuan Shen Shi Genealogy lacks the confirmation and support of family documents such as epitaphs, which is probably wrong!

In addition, some records about Shen Wansan's family history in Luochuan Shen Shi Genealogy have obvious historical absurdity. For example, if we state Shen Waner's situation: "Hongwu attacked Zhang Shicheng in the first year and stayed in Taihu Lake", "Welcome Xu Da, loyal to Jun Jun, and stay at home", this is less than 30 words, and there are at least three mistakes: First, "Hongwu attacked Zhang Shicheng in the first year" and the time is wrong. Zhang Shicheng was captured by Xu Da and others in the year before the first year of Hongwu, that is, in the twenty-seventh year of Yuan Dynasty, or in September of the first year of Wu Dynasty (1367), and Zhu Yuanzhang's war against Zhang Shicheng ended. Second, the word "stationed in Taihu Lake" is dedicated to the emperor. When people used this word in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, I am afraid it was a crime of "abuse" and "crime". Can it be said that 22,000 people are stationed in Taihu Lake? Thirdly, it is also a mistake to "welcome the loyal military king Xu Da". Xu Da was never the so-called "loyal king of martial arts"-he was named "King Zhongshan" after his death. After the death of another general of Zhu Yuanzhang, Chang Yuchun, he was named "King Kaiping" and "Loyal Warrior". Such a flawed statement in the spectrum can't be a family record at that time, which is quite similar to the handwriting of people who lacked historical and cultural knowledge later.

All these strange and inexplicable mistakes inevitably make people doubt the reliability of Shen Wansan's family records in the Book of Music, and the reason why Shen Shi, a descendant of Xiaogan in Hubei, feels unsafe is obvious. Most of the records about Shen Wansan and his son in this spectrum are probably wrong, because they can't be confirmed by other records. This "Shen Wansan, Hubei" is so different from Shen Wansan that it looks almost completely different. What does this phenomenon mean?

By the Ming Dynasty, after benevolent government propaganda, the fierce struggle in the imperial court slowed down and politics gradually stabilized, which made the country's production develop steadily, the economic aggregate increased, the society became rich, and people's lives became more and more stable and peaceful. At the same time, with the increasing awareness of yearning for wealth, people began to miss Shen Wansan, a social celebrity and super-rich representative more than 100 years ago, so that the folk proverb "Shen Wansan is in Nanjing, a dead tree is in Beijing, and the shadow of a man's name" also appeared in the famous novel Jin Ping Mei at that time, showing Shen Wansan's popularity and influence in the streets and lanes.

However, even then, Shen Wansan was already a hazy figure, and people didn't know much about his details. For example, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Dong Gu, an official in charge of official career, wrote about Shen Wansan in his book Miscellaneous Garden, saying that Shen Wansan was a rich man in the early Ming Dynasty, but he frankly did not know the name Shen Wansan Xiu. His record of Shen Wansan is just an old saying.

Liu Qing Ri Za is a famous note in Ming Dynasty, and its author Tian was once called a scholar by later generations. In the book, he talked about Shen Wansan's family background: "3,000 people are rich, the word is glorious, 4,000 precious brothers are Chinese, and they are from Nanxun, Huzhou. Father Shen You moved to Caidong Village, Changzhou, Suzhou. Your son Han Jie moved to Huazhou Village again. Today, Nanjing Huitong Pavilion is its hometown, and the land in Houhu is its garden. When I first lived in Caidong Village, people went back to the filthy land, bowed their heads to their children's work, handled the feces well, and got rid of the law, so they became rich. " The message is clear. Where did it come from? No need to explain.

Lang Ying, a writer in Ming Dynasty, lived with Heng in Jiajing period, and wrote a note on the Seventh Edition. Later generations commented that the book was "large in quantity and desirable in resources". The book also recorded Shen Wansan's content: "At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shen Wansan in Du Nan was very rich. Today, Huitong Pavilion is its hometown, and in the middle of Houhu is its garden (originally living in Zhouzhuang, Suzhou). ..... See "Introduction to Nearby Peak" for details-Lang Ying mentioned the source.

When and who wrote the profile of Nearpeak? Will Lang Ying quote this book? The author of this book is Huangfuyi, a scholar in Hongzhi period of Ming Dynasty, a native of Changzhou, almost contemporary with Lang Ying. There are many references to Shen Wansan in the book, including Liu Sanwu's Epitaph of Shen. Shen Zhixian was a native of Wuxing, and later moved to Caidong Village, his parents' home. Wansan was jealous of Zhongrong, and his brother was jealous of Zhonghua, taking the lead in losing taxes to stone. ..... "Any suspection.i seems to have read the Epitaph of Shen Zai written by Liu Sanwu, and know some information about Shen Wansan's family background and write it in his own book. Similarly, Heng should have read Liu Sanwu's book or A Brief Introduction to Near Peak, so the record of Shen Wansan's family background will be exactly the same.

According to the author's incomplete statistics, there were 126 kinds of books about Shen Wansan in Ming and Qing Dynasties, but most of them were works after Hongzhi and Jiajing in Ming Dynasty except Liu Sanwu's Collected Works of Mr. Liu in Tan Zhai, which was close to that in Shen Wansan. It is not first-hand materials, but materials and "old sayings" copied from each other, and some of them are even misinformed. Therefore, the reliability and authority of Shen Wansan materials need careful textual research before they can be determined and used correctly, which is particularly important in the study of Shen Wansan. Shen Wansan used to be only 170 years, but during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, many people, such as Dong Gu, the author of Miscellaneous Gardens, didn't even know his name, which was one of the sequelae of Zhu Yuanzhang's "forbidding wealth" and one of the reasons for the lack of research materials on Shen Wansan.

On the other hand, Shen Wansan, as a symbol of wealth, helped to build Nanjing City, actively paid taxes and other public welfare legal activities, as well as various legendary experiences that were later hit hard, which have been widely told and sympathized by people for hundreds of years. Even in the early Qing Dynasty, there was a legendary drama satirizing Zhu Yuanzhang's attack on Shen Wansan. Later, Shen Wansan appeared as the "God of Wealth" in folk New Year pictures. In a word, Shen Wansan is not an abominable villain, but a classic figure who is loved, admired and widely praised for starting a business and getting rich. Due to this realistic historical and cultural background, Shen and his son, who left Shen Wansan for more than 250 years from the end of Ming Dynasty to the beginning of Qing Dynasty, took Shen Wansan as their ancestor and put it into their family tree. However, they lack reliable first-hand materials and can only use "reasonable lyric, without any assumptions" interview materials-in fact, they can only use some hazy legends about Shen Wansan circulated by the people at that time as the content, which eventually led to the "alternative" family background of "Shen Wansan, Hubei" in the spectrum that people see now, which should be very natural and understandable-people always love to pursue beautiful people and things!

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