For hundreds of years, Chen Shimei has become synonymous with negative people, and the traditional drama "The Case of Chenmei" can be called a well-known and successful masterpiece. But do you know that there is no Chen Shimei in history, and the storyline of "The Case of ChenMei" is completely fictional, which is a completely unjust case, and its creative prototype has been killed by living anger.
Evidence 1: Judging from the "Complete Spectrum of Zhuangyuan", from the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, including Xia Liaojin, there were 345 Zhuangyuan people, of which only 10 were surnamed Chen, but none of them was called Chen Shimei.
Evidence two: Judging from the history of Zhuangyuan as a donkey, from the fifth year of Tang Gaozu Wude, that is, from 622 AD to the 20th year of Guangxu, that is, 1904 AD, there were 592 people, plus Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Kingdom period and Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, the total number of people was 606, of which only Emperor Taizong of Tang Taizong Huichang's three years of Zheng Ying, and his wife was Princess Wanshou, the daughter of Tang Xuanzong Li Chen.
The above evidence is enough to prove that there was no such person as Chen Shimei in history.
The prototype of Chen Shimei's creation in "The Case of Chen Mei" is not only not a negative person, but on the contrary, he is also a sentient and righteous Qing official.
His real name is Chen Niangu ,备美, a native of Junxian County, Hubei Province. In the eighth year of shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Chen Niangu wanted to enter Beijing to take the exam, but he was shy and difficult to make the trip. Three of his sons, Qiu Mengling, Hu Mengdi, and others, helped him with his coils and horses. Chen Niangu passed the exam and topped the list, while the three well-wishers were named Sun Shan.
Chen Niangu was honest and honest during his tenure as an official, and won the hearts of the people, and was discovered by the Kangxi Emperor, and from then on, Qingyun went straight up, and the official residence in Guizhou Shidao was an envoy and a political secretary to participate in politics, while the three scholars who were in the same department as him at that time were lost at home. They found Chen Niangu and wanted to use the favor of that year to seek an official and a half-job, but Chen Niangu refused and advised them to study hard and make progress by relying on their true talents and practical learning.
The three Shi En Tu baos returned disappointed, scolding Chen Nian Gu as an ungrateful thing. In order to get revenge on Chen Niangu, they decided to make up a joke to scold him. These three exams are not good, and the choreography is really good. They racked their brains and put all the heinous charges of not burying the second elder, clinging to the powerful, and killing wives and children on Chen Niangu's head. In order to hide the eyes and ears of the people, Chen Shumei was transformed into Chen Shimei.
By the time Chen Niangu discovered this, this drama had been performing vigorously in Henan, Shaanxi, and Hubei for more than a year. The people watching the play are like a tide, and the viewers are even more scolding. The "Case of The Beauty of The Beauty" was widely circulated throughout the country, and the gossip was incessant, and the old valley was difficult to argue, accumulated into a disease, and finally died alive.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a troupe went to Junxian County, Hubei Province, to perform this play, but was angrily smashed by the descendants of Chen Niangu, and also beat the actors, so that the performance was forced to stop. Since then, there has been a North Gate Street that does not sing Chen Shimei, and the Qin Family Building that does not sing Qin Xianglian.
Rumor-mongering is like an invisible blade, killing people without blood, more than a tangible sword. The image of "The Case of Beauty" as a negative symbol has been deeply rooted in people's concepts and cannot be reversed. Chen Niangu, a clean and honest official, was thus saddled with infamy and hatred for Jiuquan.