Many people have bought fake goods deceived experience, and now the collection of fake goods, such as celebrity calligraphy, antique cultural relics, etc. are more prevalent, in fact, a lot of literature, there are also a lot of fakes. For example, the few "Water Margin" author Shi Nai'an data, there are loopholes everywhere, and the donkey's head is not right for the horse's mouth.
Earlier, more important is the "Epitaph of Shi Nai'an" written by Wang Daosheng of the Ming Dynasty. Wang Daosheng greatly praised Luo Guanzhong in the text, the "eagle dog slave" in the text, there is a republic of anti-Qing concept, this is not a big problem, the biggest problem is that the epitaph is generally used to bury in the grave, and the last sentence of this "Shi Nai'an Epitaph": "Because of the epitaph, to attach the shi clan genealogy to the end", exposing the horse's feet, Wang Daosheng's "Shi Nai'an Epitaph" is not for Shi Nai'an to cover the coffin, just to repair the score.
The other is the Ming Dynasty Yang Xin's "Tomb Inscription of the Former Virgin Shi Shi", this "Shi Gong" is not Shi Nai'an, but Shi Nai'an's son Shi Yiqian. Wang Daosheng said that Shi Nai'an died in the third year of Hongwu, the year of Gengshu, 1370, but Yang Xin said that Shi Nai'an's son Shi Yiqian was born in the sixth year of Hongwu and in the year of Decay, born in 1373. This is very strange, is it shi nai'an who came to send his son after his death?
In the fifth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty, Shi Nai'an's fourteenth grandson Shi Geng, also wrote in the "Chronicle of the Establishment of the Shi Clan Ancestral Hall": "The ancestor of my clan, Nai'an Gong, moved from Su to Xingxing in the early Ming Dynasty, and later migrated to Baijuchang. From one book to a branch, passed down to the present, more than five hundred years..." This is a problem again, the first year of Hongwu is 1368, the fifth year of Xianfeng is 1855, if you calculate according to the earliest time, 1855-1368 = 487 years, that is, 487 years, where did it come from more than five hundred years? It shows that Shi Dun's "Chronicle of the Establishment of the Shi Clan Ancestral Hall" was not written in the fifth year of Xianfeng, but was even later.
If you do not calculate according to the maximum number, be more realistic, pinch the head and tail, compromise a bit, count the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu ten to twenty years, even if Hongwu fifteen years, plus five hundred years of "more than five years", do not count seventy or eighty years, only count thirty years, that is, 1368 + 15 + 500 + 30 = 1913, that is, 1913, or later. This is already after the founding of the Republic of China, belongs to the glorious era of revolutionary rebellion, the "Water Margin" that was once a banned book is also highly respected because of its revolutionary spirit, and posterity no longer has to be afraid to avoid it, and can pretend to be strong and hard to recognize celebrities as ancestors, and snatch the golden sign of Shi Nai'an and put gold on the face of the clan.
All in all, the information about Shi Nai'an is estimated to be forged by later generations, and the credibility is not high, and it can be said that it is basically zero.
