The content of a book edited in a colorful way.

For example, the story of Jiang Sheng, that is, Hu Ling San Suo Cao, was written by Meng Ling in Volume 29, the second volume, "See through the false shape of sesame seeds and collect herbs", which is more detailed than his book. Hua Yao Dong Tian Ji is Lin Hong's Sleepwalking Fairy Tales. This article is changed to the third person, and there are many similarities and differences in words. Another example is Biography of Chen Jinfeng, Biography of Chen Zi, Biography of Yu Xudong, Biography of Zizhu, Biography of Cai Chao, Biography of Liv Jia Hui, Biography of Yang Yuxiang, Biography of Wang Qiuying, Biography of the Moon Tower, Biography of Demon Willow, Biography of Peach Blossom and Biography of Yao Yuehua.

The Relationship with Continued Discrimination

According to the comparison between this book and different editions of Yan Xu, there are similarities and differences. It is divided into twenty-five parts, which is adjusted on the basis of seventeen parts of Xu Yi Yan Bian. The original texts quoted in this book are basically the same, but there are many differences in the book Continued Discrimination. Therefore, critics believe that Continued Discrimination is an anthology of this book, which is worth learning.

The thirty-five volumes of Yan Guang Yi Bian, which have not been recorded, are now published in the Ming Dynasty, which is actually a sequel to Yan Guang Yi Bian. The original works are divided into immortals, immortals, elephants, sleepwalkers, knights, illusions, deception, strangeness, fate, mystery, injustice, rarity, utensils, plants, birds, insects, beasts, monsters, ghosts and temptresses. A total of about 600 works have been collected, most of which are legends and note novels before the Ming Dynasty, especially works of the Tang Dynasty. These include ... "Banqiao Sanniangzi" ... "Talking about Great Works" ... and other important works. It is particularly noteworthy that nearly 100 works of Ming people or rare works are preserved in the book, which is precious. For example, The Story of Jiang Sheng, that is, the three grasses of Ling Hu, was written by Ling Mengchu in Volume 29 of Two Moments of Catastrophe. His books are all slightly quoted, but this book is more detailed ... The Story of Hua Yao Dong Tian, that is, sleepwalking in Lin Hong's fairy tales. The General Catalogue of Sikuquanshu is mentioned in Lin Hong's Collection of Ming Sheng. Now there is only one kind of manuscript, written in the first person, but the book was received in the third person, and there are many similarities and differences in the text, so it is considered to retain the face of another biography. In addition, such as Biography of Chen Jinfeng, Biography of Chen Zichuan, Biography of Yudong, Biography of Zizhu, Biography of Cai Chao, Biography of Liv Jia Hui, Biography of Yang Yuxiang, Biography of Wang Qiuying, Biography of Moon Tower, Biography of Demon Willow, Biography of Peach Blossom and Biography of Yao Yuehua. Some of these works are called Ming works, others are Yuan and Ming works, which provide valuable information for the study of novel history. ..... On the whole, it can be confirmed that Xu Yi Yan Bian is an anthology of Yan Guang Yi Bian, and its value is far less than the original.

The Variation of Yan Guang and the Category of Love History

If we want to know whether some works in Yan Guang Yi Bian are the source of the story of Er Pai, we must also understand the relationship between Yan Guang Yi Bian and love history (or love history). Because we find that many works in Yan Guang Yi Bian and A Brief History of Love have the same content and reproduce each other. According to our preliminary statistics, there are at least 106 works reprinted in the two books, and they are concentrated in certain categories. For example, seven of the eight works compiled by Yan Guangyi in the eighth volume of Quiet Period are found in Love History, nine works in the ninth volume of Love History are all found in Love History, and nine works in the tenth volume of Love History II 13 are found in Love History and the eleventh volume of Prostitute Department. However, in Yan Guang Yi Bian, at least 45 stories are reproduced with a brief history of love, some of which are found in the 2 1 volume of A Brief History of Love. The Variation of Yan Guang and A Brief History of Love not only appear repeatedly in many articles, but also have obvious traces of being borrowed and transplanted in some articles. For example, Volume 8 of Yan Guang Yi Bian and Tao wrote about what happened between Liu and the owner's daughter when he tried Jiahe at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. This story originated from Watching Cars, and Yi Jian Zhi Ding also contains its story. However, the head Lu Tao rewrote and handled the original. Compared with the original work, it not only adds a lot of story lines and language descriptions, but also changes the image of Liu, the party concerned, from an unjust person to a sentient and righteous person. In addition, the ending of the story has also been changed, from "Up to now" (Looking at the Car) or "Unexpectedly" (Yi Jian Zhi Ding) to "Sui Ji" [13]. Liu Zhong's characters in the third volume of A Brief History of Love are different from those in Watching Cars and Yi Jian, but they are exactly the same as those in The Change of Yan Guang [14]. However, the story of the thirty-second volume of Chuke is the same as the head in Yi Bian and Liu in Love History, and some researchers believe that it originated from Love History. Therefore, for such a kind of story, if we can't figure out who transplanted who and the relationship between Yan Guang's Variation and love history, we can't understand the real origin of such works as Er Pai.

In our opinion, to solve this problem, we can investigate from the following aspects: the order of the author's life times, the order of the book "The Variation of Yan Guang" and "A Brief History of Love", the collection of other books and the narration of the characters in the works.

First of all, we examine the author's life years in turn. It is generally believed that A Brief History of Love was written by Feng Menglong, who was born in the 2nd year of Wanli (1574) and died in the 15th year of Chongzhen (1642), while Wu Dazhen was born in the 22nd year of Jiajing (1543) and died in the 40th year of Wanli (1442). Feng Menglong, the head of Wu Dazhen, is 3 1 year old this year. It is not absolutely impossible for him to transplant Feng Menglong's works, but the possibility is relatively small. Feng Menglong is more likely to transplant Wu Dazhen's works.

Secondly, we examine the collection of books. As mentioned earlier, Liu Hongshu has 14 Yan Guangyi's works, among which "Magic Fox" is shared by Yan Guangyi and "A Brief Introduction to Love History". It's about Jiang, a native of Zhejiang. Jia Hanyang got sick after hanging out with the big fox. Jiang learned the story of the fox by giving it to Sesame. This story is called Jiang Sheng in Yan Guang Yi Bian and Farewell Fox in A Brief History of Love [15]. This story is included in Volume 9 1 of Liu Hongshu, and it is clearly indicated at the end of the article that it is from Yan Guangyi. This shows that Jiang Sheng in Yan Guang Yi Bian is probably the ancestor of this story, and the big fox in Love History may be transplanted from Yan Guang Yi Bian with a little modification.

Thirdly, according to the narrative investigation of the works in A Brief History of Love, the editors of A Brief History of Love did see these works in Yan Guang Yi Bian. For example, at the end of the third volume of A Brief Introduction to Love History and Jiang Qing, it says, "The novel is called The Story of a Colorful Boat." [16] This shows that the content of the story "Jiang Qing" comes from the novel "Zhou Ji Cai", and the author changed the title and put it in his own book. Colorful Boat Story is a work in Yan Guangyi's Edited Edition, which is contained in the eighth volume of Yan Guangyi's Edited Edition. It tells the love story of Jiang Qing, the son of Taiyuan businessman in Ming Dynasty, and Wu Yun, the daughter of Fuzhou Wujun. As far as we know, in the whole collection of classical Chinese novels in Ming Dynasty, only Yan Guang's Yi Bian signed this content. In Volume 28, Wu Yanzi's Neighboring Boat Going to an Appointment, Mr. Tan Zhengbi quoted a poem by the famous wife Wu Zhinv, and added: "However, at the end of the love story, there are more words such as" Nanjing Ritual Department Chief Officer "and" many children ",which seems to be different." [17] Teacher Tan's speculation hit the nail on the head. These two sentences come from the story of the colorful boat. By the way, Mr. Tan said in his note: "Love History, Volume III, Jiang Qing, Biography of Ancient and Modern Boudoir, Volume IV, Lian, Integration of Ancient and Modern Books, Volume 351, Biography of Boudoir, Yan Bu, both of which are abridged, but not so. [18] In fact, Wu's Daughter has also been abridged, and the most detailed story is the story of the float boat that the ancestor of this story can easily argue. Since this issue is not the focus of this article, I will not repeat it here.

Finally, regarding the question of who transplanted whom, we can also study some recurring stories in Yan Guang Yi Bian and A Brief History of Love according to the writing time. "Love History" Volume 14 "Mrs. Huarui":

"Another Edition of Xu Yan" contains: Yun Jian Shu Dacai, Linde wrote a contract to visit friends and be a beauty in Lu Yu [19] in the spring of the second year.

As mentioned earlier, Wang Shizhen didn't write Yan Xu Yi Bian, but just an anthology of Yan Guang Yi Bian, which was engraved in the forty-six years of Wanli. The title of the book Yan Xu Yi Bian appeared in A Brief History of Love, indicating that A Brief History of Love should be written later. By this time, Wu Dazhen had passed away, and it was impossible to transplant the works in A Brief History of Love. In addition, Yan Xu Yi Bian is not only an anthology of Yan Guang Yi Bian, but quoting Yan Xu Yi Bian in Love History is tantamount to quoting Yan Guang Yi Bian. So, who should be the source or source of those stories that are reproduced in Yan Guangyi's Compilation and Love History, but not seen in other books?

Wide range and different weaves and two beats

After clarifying the relationship between Yan Guang Yi Bian, Yan Xu Yi Bian and A Brief History of Love, we can further discuss that Yan Guang Yi Bian is the blueprint of the second beat.

The reason why Yan Guang Yi Bian is another important blueprint of Er Pai is because we found a lot of stories about Yan Guang Yi Bian in Er Pai. There are not only a lot of stories about Yan Guang Yi Bian in Er Pai, but also some of them are only included in Yan Guang Yi Bian and not recorded in other books, which shows that Ling Mengchu must have referred to Yan Guang Yi Bian when compiling Er Pai, in other words, he is based on Yan Guang Yi Bian. The related articles in Yan Guang Yi Bian are compared as follows in the order of "two beats".

1. The first moment of this book, Volume 5, meets the tiger, which is Pei Zuoji's auspicious day: the marriage of the daughter of Hongnong Ling and Lu Sheng, see Volume 17 of Yan Guangyi, Ding Shu Brusheng; For a detailed record of Zhang Derong and Pei Yue's guest affairs, see Volume II, Volume XVIII, Part III, Tiger Media Records (among which fortune teller Li Zhiwei may have borrowed Volume XXVI, Part I, Li Zhiwei).

2. "The First Moment" Volume 7 Tang Shandao's collection of wonders, worship of Zen and different methods: Luo Yu's story, see "Yan Guangyi's compilation" Volume 5 "Fairy fills three Luo Biographies".

3. The First Carving, Volume 9, The Swing Meeting of the Palace Maids in Xuanhuiyuan and The Couples in Qing 'an Temple Laugh and Cry: It is said that Liu's son carried a female corpse, which eventually became an affair between husband and wife. See Yi Bian, Volume 16, Liu's wife. As for the truth, please refer to the story of staying in the house and accelerating the loss of your brother. See the ninth volume of Yan Guangyi's Compilation. Emotion is my club.

4. At the first moment, Volume 23, the elder sister's soul wandered away from her old wish, and the younger sister's illness began to continue. When talking about the consequences of Li Xing's dream of marrying a wife and sister, see Volume 17, Translation, Li Xingxiu.

5. The first sculpture, Volume 24, is the curse of Yan Lao, and Master Gu Shan will punish evil: as the saying goes, the old apes in Gu Shan will occupy women, and finally they will be wiped out by Master Guanyin. See "Yan Guang Yi Bian", Volume 27, Animal Department II. The Lord of Gu Shan will punish evil.

6. At the first moment, volume 25, Zhao Qianli's legacy, poetry comes naturally: for the story of Cao Wenji, see the book "Biography of Prostitutes" and "Fairy" in Volume 11 of Art Compilation.

7. Volume 28 of "The First Carving" and "Jinguangdong" mainly focus on the old traces, and the Jade Que Zun enlightened his predecessor: for the story of Li Yu, see Volume 5 of "Yi Bian", "Biography of Xianbu Fu Lin"; Said Qilu encounter fairy, see the fourth volume of Yan Guangyi, Xianbu II, Mrs. Taiyin; To tell the truth, Feng Jing, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, visited Wutai Mountain before his death and realized that he was a jade-deficient person. See "Yan Guang Yi Bian" Volume 12, Sleepwalking in the Jade Cave.

8. In the first moment, Volume 30, General Li, a subordinate of Ambassador Wang Wei, complained before his death: Between the lines, Wu Yunlang, the son of Wujiang Stone, was working for ghosts. See Yan Guangyi, Volume 19, Wu Yunlang, Unjust Reporting Department; For the Li Sheng incident between Tang Zhenyuan and He Shuo, please refer to Wang Shizhen's Yan Guang Yi Bian, Volume 19, Injustice Department.

9. The First Moment, volume 32, Joe Swallows a Beard for a Prostitute, shows that the poem of Shi Lie is finalized: the story of Song Xiucai's affair with the owner's daughter when Liu tried Jiahe can be found in Volume 8 of Yan Guangyi's Compilation, Peach Blossom Record of Taiping Department.

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12. Volume 5, Gong lost his son in the Lantern Festival, and Shisanlang was five years old. The second part of the main story tells the story that Pearl Ji was abducted by a drama thief on Lantern Festival night. See Part 15 of Yan Guang's Variation and Pearl Story.

13. Volume 6 "General Li Mistakes Uncle, Liu's Woman is a Smart Husband": It tells the story of divorce from Kim truly. See Volume 10 "Yan Guang Yi Bian" and "Emotional Department II Cui Cui Biography".

14. "Hongxing Erke" Volume 8 "Shen Jiangshi buys 3,000 yuan to laugh and talks about the DPRK for one night": To be honest, Shen Jiangshi went to Beijing to listen to the traitor's scam. See Yan Guangyi's Volume 15 "Sui Department talks about the DPRK".

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17. "Hongxing Erke" Volume 14 "Zhao County sends oranges, Wu Fuzhi": For the story of the Syrian couple setting a trap to cheat money, see Yi Bian Volume 15 "Xi An Wu Jiang"; In proper words, please tell the story about honey trap in Lang Wuyue. See Yan Guang's Yi Bian, Volume 15, wuyue, Ministry of Mystery.

18. hongxing erke, vol. 29, give sesame a glimpse of the false shape and pick up the true grass: for the story of Zhejiang people Jiang Sheng and the big fox, see Yan Guangyi, vol. 30, Wu Jiangsheng of the Ministry of Animals.

19. Hongxing Erke Volume 30 Wang Yuying's widow gets married and Han Xiucai's son is redeemed: For the story of female ghost Wang Yuying and Fuqing Han Xiucai, please refer to Yan Guangyi's Volume 32, Biography of Wang Qiuying in the Ghost Department.

20. "Hongxing Erke" Volume 33 "Yang leads the horse and asks the stick, and the rich man is stormy": In proper words, Yang is good at magic. See "Yan Guang Yi Bian" Volume 14, "The Ministry of Magic leads the horse".

2 1. "Hongxing Erke" Volume 34, "Ren Jun plays the boudoir, Yang Taiwei plays the palace guest": The true story tells that Song Taiwei was appointed as a pavilion guest in Yang Jian, was courted by Yang Jiaji at will, and was sentenced to imprisonment by Yang Jian. For details, please refer to Volume 15 of Yan Guangyi, Xi Sui Bu, Yang Jian Pavilion Guest.

There are 29 stories in Erpai, involving 2 1 volume. We think they are all the sources of the stories in Two Beats, but the specific situation is different.

(1) some of these works are only included in Yan Guang Yi Bian, but not recorded in other books. For example, in Volume XIII of Hongxing Erke, it is said that Liu Jianshuizi of Fuzhou Huanglv married Zheng's daughter, and after her death, her soul possessed her foster mother until Liu Xiucai died. Researchers still don't know where this story came from. In fact, this is from Yan Guang Ghost Little Niang Yi Bian. The place names, names and story lines in the works are exactly the same. In this way, his books have not been recorded, but only the works included in Yan Guangyi's Compilation should generally be the source of the story of "Erpai".

(2) Although some works have records or clues from predecessors, they are extremely brief. After rewriting, the author of Yan Guang Yi Bian is much richer in content and plot than the original. In fact, it has completely become a new work, and Ling Mengchu did not spend much effort in his own book. For example, the jade cave story, the source of the twenty-eight official characters in the First Carving Volume, Jin Dong Tan Ji and Yu Dong Zun predecessors, has some clues in Sun Gong Tan Pu in the Song Dynasty, but the original text is only 60 words, and there is no story at all. The jade cave story has expanded it to nearly 2,000 words, adding a lot of plot description, scene description and dialogue with characters. Ling Mengchu only slightly polished it, and regarded it as a proper sentence of the first engraved volume 28. To illustrate the relationship between the two, we might as well compare the two paragraphs.

Yan Guang Yi Bian Volume 12 Xu Yudong;

Suddenly, I heard a loud noise, ringing in the forest. In Song Yin, people raised their eyes and saw a cornice painting building in the shadow of bamboo. So I walked through clouds and stones, ventured in and found my own way. But when I smell running water and breeze, the sound under my feet is very loud. Gradually, the foot of the forest is divided into two points, and the peaks merge together. Go to a place where the stream is full of deep water and the wind is soft and the clouds are idle. The pillow is clean, and Zhu Menbiwa. There is a Zhang Baiyu card hanging on the door, which reads the golden book "The First Hole of Golden Light". When I saw the pit, I knew I was dead, but I was afraid to make progress.

The first moment, volume 28:

Suddenly, I heard a loud noise, ringing in the forest. Feng Xiangju looked up at Song Yin's bamboo shadow and vaguely saw cornices, blue tiles and windows in the building. Feng Xiang said, "When you are right, you will definitely get out of here. There must be a secluded place to stop. Why not look for it? " So I walked through clouds and stones, ventured in and found my own way. I used to listen to running water and breeze, and the sound was just under the steps. Gradually, the foothills of the forest split into two points and the peaks merged. Go to a place where the stream is full of deep water and the wind is soft and the clouds are idle. Thousands of families in Qian Qian have a clean pillow. But see: Wagong in Qiusong Town and Zhu Fei in Biwa Lake. Silent cloister, phoenix bamboo carved with jade fence. Exquisite pavilions, clouds covered by dry nights, and ingenuity is not in the world. At the opening of the cave door on one side of the rock wall, there is a white jade sign with the golden words "Golden Light First Cave" written on it. When Feng arrived at the door of the cave, he knew that he was no longer alive, but he was afraid to enter the cave.

From the comparison of the above two works, we can see that only a monologue was added in the first moment, and the rest are very close. Works with words very similar to "Erpai" like this should of course be the most direct source of "Erpai" works.

(3) Although these works of Yan Guang Yi Bian and Er Pai have been found in other books, Yan Guang Yi Bian was written earlier, while other books and periodicals were published later, so the story source of the article in Er Pai should be Yan Guang Yi Bian rather than other books. For example, in Hong Xing Er Ke (Volume 29), Seeing through False Shape for Sesame and Picking up the Real Couple of Herbs, the story about Jiang Sheng and his parting fox has also been described by researchers in the past. In the previous article, we have proved that Wu Dazhen died 46 years after Wanli, and the editor of Love Story was transplanted from Wu Dazhen to Yan Guang. The same is true of Love History, Volume III, Headgear Record and Jiang Qing, which have been discussed before, so I won't repeat them here. For another example, as the source of the first 24 volumes of official characters, the story of Daxie contained in Volume 27 of Yan Guangyi's Compilation and Volume 12 of Yan Xuyi's Compilation is the same. As mentioned earlier, Yan Xu Yi Bian is an anthology of Yan Guang Yi Bian, which was written in forty-six years of Wanli, so the blueprint of Twenty-four Articles of Chuke should be Yan Guang Yi Bian. The book "Zhu Shi Xie Ji" is also a rare work, so we might as well compare two paragraphs to see its relationship with "Er Pai".

"Yan Guang Yi Bian" Volume 27 "Animal Department II Zhu Shi Xie Ji":

During the Hongwu period, there was an ancient road in the ruins of the Yanguanhui, wearing a pale face, towels and ropes. If you live in harmony, your hair will be loose. Although doing nothing, I get drunk in the city every day. The song is long and dancing, or diving, or grinding branches, turning around and hovering, scaring the fish to fly, you can't cross it. Also, I know that books are good at singing, and I enjoy songs with scholars. Although the people who know each other in the mountains are called by Taoist priests, they are very suspicious, but they can't get into it. One day, I was drunk and wrote the words "wind", "flower", "snow" and "moon" on the stone wall, which was praised by readers. Later, when I saw that the ink was getting deeper and deeper, it was strange that Monie couldn't go. Words are combined and recorded on the left. One: "The wind is curling, and the wind is curling. The winter ridge cries alone, and the spring suburbs shake the grass. Clouds are bright in the moonlight, and fog is in the morning. Send Gui Xiang in clear autumn, and sweep away inflammation in extreme summer. The wind is blowing and wild flowers are falling. " Second: "The flowers are gorgeous, the flowers are gorgeous. Enchanting as makeup, locking as scissors. The dew is fresher, and the wind sends the fragrance far away. One is the proud ice muscle, and the flowers are full of drunkenness. The flowers are gorgeous and the forest is really enviable. " Third: "Snow is fluttering, snow is fluttering. Jade seal plum calyx, green salt presses bamboo tip. Sprinkle the air and turn the waves, and accumulate the silver bridge. Qian Shan muddy scary spread lead powder, Wanmu vaguely holding a robe. Snow is fluttering, and long-distance passengers hate it. " Fourth: "Juanjuan, Juanjuan. At first, Yokota lacked a hook, and Fiona Fang hung a mirror. Obliquely moved flowers and shadows are chaotic, and the water lines are low. Poets hold a lamp to find a good sentence, while beauties push the window to sleep late. Yue Juan, the light is endless. "

The first moment, volume 24:

Listen to the words "wind", "flowers", "snow" and "moon" first, and then talk seriously. "The wind curled up, the wind curled up. The winter ridge cries alone, and the spring suburbs shake the grass. Clouds are bright in the moonlight, and fog is in the morning. Send Gui Xiang in clear autumn, and sweep away inflammation in extreme summer. The wind is blowing and wild flowers are falling. " (Right-wing Feng) "Flowers are gorgeous, flowers are gorgeous. Enchanting as makeup, locking as scissors. The dew is fresher, and the wind sends fragrance far away. One is the proud ice muscle, and the flowers are full of drunkenness. The flowers are gorgeous and the forest is really enviable. " (Right-wing flower) "Snow flutters, snow flutters. Jade seal plum calyx, green salt presses bamboo tip. Sprinkle the air and turn the waves, and lock the silver bridge. Qian Shan muddy scary spread lead powder, Wanmu vaguely holding a robe. Snow is fluttering, and long-distance passengers hate it. " (Right-wing Snow) "Trickle, Trickle. At first glance, there is no hook, and the square lenses are hanging in the sky. Obliquely moved flowers and shadows are chaotic, and the water lines are low. Poets hold a lamp to find a good sentence, while beauties push the window to sleep late. Yue Juan, the light is endless. " (right-wing moon)

Readers, who do you think wrote these four songs? It is said that during the Hongwu period, there was an old man in the ruins of the Yanguanhui in Zhejiang Province, with a pale face and a towel and rope, pretending to be a Taoist. I haven't seen him make a living, and he is drunk in the city every day. After singing, I danced around the wood, turned around and turned around, and my body was light and agile, like a fish flying a swallow. I also know that books are good at reciting, humorous laughter, and my hair is loose. Some scribes visited the mountain and tried to hold peace talks with him. One day, I was drunk and asked the restaurant to write these four words on the stone wall, which was praised by the audience. Since I wrote it, the ink has become deeper and brighter. These people who know him well in the deep mountains, seeing his grotesque appearance, all suspect that he is a fairy, but there is nowhere to find his trace. I travel to and from the mountains every day, but I can't see a home. Although there are some doubts, it has been a long time since I learned from the trainees, and I don't care. On weekdays, we just call each other by the old roadside.

As can be seen from the comparison of the above words, Ling Mengchu only made a perfunctory touch-up on the relevant words in Zhu Xie Ji, slightly adjusted the order, and then became his own work, even the words in the original work were copied word by word.

(4) Some works compiled by Yan Guangyi from the former dynasty are not much different from the original works in terms of words, but they are all compiled by editors from different books or different volumes of the same book, and a large number of works of these categories appear in Erpai. We believe that Ling Mengchu may be based on these works, rather than directly drawing on the original works. Because since he came into contact with Yan Guang Yi Bian and transplanted many works from it, he would not seek further and avoid the easy for these works compiled by the former dynasty, nor would he directly use the existing achievements, but he would try to draw materials from the original. For example, five of Yan Guangyi's eight works "Fan Bu" appeared in Er Pai, while many contents, such as "Love Bu", "Fixed Bu", "Unjust Newspaper Bu" and "Ghost Bu" appeared in Er Pai. We think that the story related to it in Er Pai may be possible.

To sum up, we think that Wu Dazhen's Yan Guang Yi Bian is another important blueprint of Ling Mengchu's "Second Beat". Yan Xu Yi Bian was not written by Wang Shizhen, but an anthology of Yan Guang Yi Bian. Some of the works in Er Pai that are thought to be from Yan Xuyi are actually from Yan Guangyi. A Brief History of Love was written late, and some works that were once considered as the source of "Er Pai" were transplanted from Yan Guang Yi Bian. There are many rare novel materials in Yan Guang Yi Bian, many of which are based on Er Pai, and some of them are included in the book by Ling Mengchu with a little polish, which is the direct source of Er Pai.