Sanyan Erpai refers to five famous legendary short stories in Ming Dynasty. The so-called "Sanyan" refers to Yu's Famous Words, Shi Jing's Childlike Eyes and Xing Shi Heng Yan written by Feng Menglong. The so-called two beats refer to the first moment of surprise and the second moment of surprise, both of which are Ling Mengchu's works. These five collections of novels occupy a place in the history of China literature, and are praised by later generations as "the pinnacle of China's classical short vernacular novels" and "the first monument of vernacular short stories from the oral art of folk artists to the desk literature of literati writers".

These five books, just like Jinlong's martial arts novels are to the Chinese world and Zheng's fairy tale king is to the children's world, have been widely welcomed by the public. The story theme of Sanyan Erpai is wide-ranging and changeable, and the story plot is tortuous and bizarre, which comprehensively and profoundly reflects the joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows, and yearning for life of ordinary people at that time.

Sanyan, 40 articles per episode, *** 120 articles, contains chapters that reflect ordinary life, expose the ugliness of officialdom, praise love and friendship, and criticize treachery and dishonesty. The most well-known story in it is Du Shiniang's Angry Box, which is, after all, a famous textbook.

Two schools, each with 40 volumes and 80 volumes, are characterized by reflecting people's pursuit of wealth, expectation of love and yearning for freedom in the embryonic period of capitalism. Among them, there are many articles, such as "Transporting Korea to meet Dongting Red", "General Wu will enjoy a meal" and "People living together in strange ways get help", which mainly describe business and reflect the society's strong pursuit of money, which is very rare in previous novels. Literati, farmers, businessmen and businessmen have always been the lowest in the eyes of ancient literati, so they don't write if they can.