Chen Fan's words and deeds became a model for scholars at that time. As soon as he took office, he had the ambition to clarify the world. When he was a magistrate in Zhang Yu, he asked where Xu Zhi lived and said that he would visit him after he arrived in Nanchang. The master said, "The big guy means to let the prefect go to the yamen first."
Chen Fan said, "In the past, Zhou Wuwang went to Shang Rong's house by bus. When I got there, I left without even taking the heat. I'm going to visit the saint. What's wrong? "
Shi Shuo Xin Yu is a book published in the Southern Dynasties, which was compiled by a group of people organized by Liu Yiqing, king of Linchuan in the Song Dynasty. Its content mainly records the words and deeds and anecdotes of some celebrities from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the Jin and Song Dynasties. Shi Shuo Xin Yu is the representative work of China's "Notebook Novels" in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the earliest collection of classical Chinese novels in China. It originally had eight volumes, but only three volumes were lost.
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The book Shi Shuo Xin Yu records anecdotes from the Han and Wei Dynasties to the Eastern Jin Dynasties and is an excellent historical material for studying the romantic life in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Among them, there are vivid descriptions of the activities of celebrities in Wei and Jin Dynasties, such as speaking freely, tasting topics, various personality characteristics such as seclusion, birth, simplicity, pride, various life pursuits and hobbies.
Throughout the book, we can get the group image of several generations of scholars in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Through these characters, we can further understand the fashion of the upper class in that era. It can be seen that Taoist thought had an important influence on the way of thinking and life of scholars in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and even on the whole social atmosphere.
Although Shi Shuo Xin Yu only recorded a few words, its content was very rich, which widely reflected the lifestyle, mental outlook and the atmosphere of speaking freely and celebrating birthdays of the gentry in this period. It is the pioneer of the note novel that narrates anecdotes and meaningful words, and it is also a model of later essays, which has a far-reaching impact on the development of later note novels.
There are countless works written in the style of this book, which are self-contained in ancient novels. Many stories in the book have become the material of later dramas and novels, or the common allusions of later poems, and have an important position in the history of China literature. Mr. Lu Xun called it "a textbook for celebrities".
The Qing Dynasty's A New Theory of Continuing the World, Wang Shu's Tang Yulin and Feng Menglong's A Brief Introduction to Ancient and Modern Times were all deeply influenced by it. Stories such as "Xie Nv Yin Xue" and "Zi You Visiting Dai" in Shi Shuo Xin Yu have become common allusions in later poems. Other stories have become the material of playwrights and novelists.