Anyone who has seen the opera "Qin Xianglian" (also known as "The Case of Chen Mei") knows that Chen Shimei is an ungrateful, ungrateful and disgusted with the new and tired of the old. However, in his hometown, the people of Junzhou, Hubei Province, have been upset with Chen Shimei for generations and have forbidden to perform "Qin Xianglian".
According to folklore, Chen Shimei's father, who was old and had a son, was overjoyed and regarded Chen Shimei as a pearl in his palm. Chen Shimei has been smart since childhood, reading and writing will learn as soon as he learns, he began to read from the age of 9, studied hard for ten years, and arrived at the year of the big exam in a flash.
Chen Shimei was full of scriptures, familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, writing into a pen, and exporting into chapters. His classmates and friends all admired him and praised him. That year, a large group of classmates followed him all the way to Beijing to catch the exam.
During the examination, Chen Shimei's poetry response, the answer was like a stream, and he was appreciated by the invigilator, praised by the invigilator, commented on the red pen, and Chen Shimei won the first place in the gold list.
After Chen Shimei became famous in one fell swoop, she cared for the same window that fell into the list with him to go to Beijing to catch the exam. There was a person who returned to his hometown without entanglement, so he donated funds; many classmates in Beijing did not want to return to their hometown, but their lives were not settled, unlike now that they could find a place to work, he tried his best to help; if there was no place to live, he settled in an inn.
Among them, there is a fellow window nicknamed "drama fan", who usually does not need to study, and this time he entered Beijing to catch the exam and fall into Sun Mountain. He thought, Chen Shimei has won the title, and my star will follow the moon and stain the light. He went to the Zhuangyuan Mansion at both ends of the three days and begged Chen Shimei to say, "Dude, you and I have been in the same window for many years, so I will get a petty official to be counted." Chen Shimei advised him to study hard, take the exam, and take the exam again next year. The "drama fans" could not listen to these advices, and tried their best to ask Chen Shimei to get him an official and a half-post, but Chen Shimei did not agree.
In the blink of an eye and half a year later, a group of students who fell on the list lived in Beijing, and the expenses were all paid by Chen Shimei. Later, they were bored and returned to their hometown in Junzhou, leaving only two or three "drama fans".
The "drama fan" official did not fish, the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and it was not a common thing to live in the capital for a long time, he frowned and came up with a bad idea. I told another classmate that Chen Shimei did not miss the old feelings, so we made up a joke to scold him and get the approval of the student. They began to write and scolded Chen Shimei for being ungrateful, saying that as soon as he became a high-ranking official, he lost his wife and children and forgot his mother, and wanted to make Chen Shimei infamous.
They both walked and wrote on the way back to their hometowns, you said a word to me, the more you make up, the more energetic, the more complete the compilation, before you get home, the drama is made up. The classmate said, what is the name of this play? "Drama fans" said that Chen Shimei did not have a poem: "Kiss is like brotherhood"? He doesn't care about the siblings of the same window who can 'connect with love'! It is a ruthless and unrighteous thing, so we will make up his wife's name as Qin Xianglian. The classmate clapped his hands and applauded. After this play was written, it spread quickly, and "Qin Xianglian" was competed everywhere, which was a sensation.
When this play was performed in Junzhou, Chen Shimei's teacher watched it, and he was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot and was bedridden. Later, the teacher sold his family wealth and built a Canglang Pavilion in the place where Chen Shimei was studying, and the front of the court was planted with pines and cypresses. Canglang Pavilion later became one of the Eight Scenes of Junzhou, and for many years, the people of Junzhou did not allow the play "Qin Xianglian" to be performed.
The "drama fan" and the classmate, ashamed in their hearts, did not dare to show their faces, and ran away to the countryside under a pseudonym. Chen Shimei has been an official abroad, and only returned to Junzhou at the age of nearly 70 and lived to the age of 76.
Note: According to some sources, Chen Shimei's real name is Chen Niangu, who was an official for a lifetime, honest and honest, and Hubei Junzhou is his hometown. Because the Danjiangkou Reservoir in Hubei Is an important water source for the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, when the reservoir was built in 1968 to store water, the ancient city of Junzhou was submerged and sank into the water. With the acceleration of the pace of national protection of ancient cities, through the unremitting efforts of cultural relics workers, some buildings of the ancient city have been rebuilt on the ground, so that the ancient city "surfaced" to see the light of day.