Introduction to Chen Shimei: Is the prototype of Chen Shimei in history the old valley of Qing Dynasty?

Introduction: According to legend, Chen Niangu, a scholar in Shunzhi period of Qing Dynasty, is the prototype of Chen Shimei in the drama My Beauty Case. The Secret History of Chennian Valley records that Chennian Valley is mature and beautiful, and both Chennian Valley and Chen Shimei are Zhou Junren. Chen Niangu was retaliated and framed by two classmates, and became Chen Shimei in the opera. In traditional drama, Chen Shimei calls himself "a man of Zhou Jun in Huguang". According to Xiangzhou Zhi? "Jinshi" records: "In the twelfth year of Shunzhi, B entered the history list, Chen Niangu was a Taoist official in Shi Si, Guizhou, an assistant envoy of the inspection department, and the Chief Secretary participated in politics. "According to Hubei People's Publishing House 1984, Chen Shimei was an official in the Qing Dynasty. Formerly known as Niangu, also known as Shu Mei and Zhou Jun (namely Xunxian County, Hubei Province, now danjiangkou city), he was born in an official family. He studied in Beijing in the early Qing Dynasty, and was the top scholar of Xinmaoke in Shunzhi for eight years (165 1 year). At first, he was appointed as the magistrate of Hebei Province. Later, because of Kangxi's appreciation, he was promoted to be the provincial judge of Siren House and Shidao in Guizhou, and also served as a political envoy to participate in politics.

When he was an official in Guizhou, some classmates came to vote for the official position. I received him many times and advised him to study hard in order to make his career prosperous. Later, because more and more people came to vote, it was difficult to deal with it, so they instructed the butler foreman to refuse. Hu Mengdie is one of his classmates who lives in Qinjiapo, a suburb of Zhou Jun. He used to help him get money when he went to Beijing to take an exam. Because he was rejected by the big housekeeper, he suddenly got revenge, so he pinched some things in the society that he was ungrateful to leave his wife and children, added them to him, and made a drama "Qin Xianglian", which was performed in Shaanxi and Henan. According to legend, when the Henan Opera Troupe performed this play in the late Qing Dynasty, one of Chen's descendants vomited blood on the spot after watching it. Chen Shimei's eighth generation grandson also organized family members, smashed the trunk of the troupe on the spot, and beat the actors, killing several people, and the performance was forced to stop.

The children in danjiangkou city have spent decades trying to solve the mystery of Chen Shimei. He believed that Chen Shimei really existed in history. According to local folklore and the inscription of Chen Shimei found in danjiangkou city by 1992, Chen Shimei is an honest and upright official, honest and considerate of people's feelings. Those so-called loving the poor and the rich, killing his wife and children imposed on him are all done by people who are jealous of the virtuous. Therefore, there is a saying in Xunxian that "Chen Shimei is not sung in Beimen Street and Qin Xianglian is not sung in Qinjialou".

In the past 200 years, My Beauty Case in Song Dynasty has been sung for a long time in the world, and Chen Shimei is notorious for it. How could Chen Shimei in Qing Dynasty be captured by Bao Gong in Song Dynasty? During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, a man who claimed to be a scattered man in Qiantang left a book called Hundred Cases of Bao Gong. At that time, in the 26th book "Qin and the Resurrection of Beauty on Earth", there was a story that Chen Shimei denied his wife and children, which was very similar to the first half of Henan Opera.

Accordingly, Chen Niangu in Qing Dynasty was not the prototype of Chen Shimei.