The mystery of Susan

A few days ago, I wrote an essay "Famen Temple and Liu Jin and others". I was a little confused about the location of the Famen Temple story, but in the end I rationally recognized its presence in Shaanxi (such as the history and popularity of Famen Temple, Shaanxi elements in the play, etc.). Nevertheless, I always feel that the evidence is insufficient, so I continue to rummage through relevant articles and materials. Suddenly I saw an article, which surprised me! The article said: The story of Famen Temple really happened in Shaanxi, and the evidence is that someone has read the relevant files. This is a heavyweight cultural relic that can directly prove the story.

According to relevant historical records, during the Republic of China, a section chief surnamed Li in Meixian said that when he was cleaning up the grain in the warehouse in Meixian, he found several ancient books from a pile of sundries. While browsing casually, he came across a piece of yellow paper with many regular script written on it with a brush. Section chief Li found that this piece of paper was originally a form of paper, telling the story of Song Qiaojiao's accusation that had been circulating in Meixian for hundreds of years. Surprise, section Li put the form paper back in its original place, because it is public property and can't be touched. Later, the story of Song Qiaojiao's paper spread like wildfire and soon spread all over the country. From then on, people firmly believed that Song Qiaojiao's complaint was true.

1949, the first county magistrate of Meixian took office. He also said that he had read Song Qiaojiao's paper, but he didn't take good care of it because there were many things to do at that time. A few years later, Baoji Museum was established, and cultural relics experts wanted to find Song Qiaojiao's papers for preservation. Unfortunately, all the databases in Meixian County could not be found. Experts speculate that there are several possibilities. First, after the county government moved, many abandoned materials were taken home by local people to make a fire. Song Qiaojiao's paper may be among them. Second, it was thrown away as garbage by the uninformed county government staff at that time. Third, it may be collected by local folk collectors (unlikely, at that time, politics was emphasized and food and clothing were the mainstay, and few people had such generosity). Anyway, "Shaanxi" is another important proof that the story of "Famen Temple" happened.

Coincidentally, it reminds me of another Beijing opera, Yu Tang Chun, and the "Susan Mystery" caused by it.

Yu Tang Chun and Su San Qi Jie are comic books. It is said that in the Ming Dynasty, there was a famous prostitute in Beijing, whose real name was Su San. She is beautiful and proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Wang Jinglong, the son of an official, has met Susan. They fell in love at first sight and hit it off immediately, so Susan trusted each other.

Later, Wang Jinglong left Beijing and returned to his hometown, studied hard and won the championship in one fell swoop. On the occasion of returning to China, the procuress sold Susan to a horse dealer named Shen in Hongdong, Shanxi as a concubine. His wife Pishi, easy virtue, was having an affair with her neighbor Zhao Ang.

Pishi was jealous, so he planned to poison Shen, and then the wicked first complained and framed him, bribing Hongdong county magistrate with a large sum of money, which made him a capital crime. Corrupt officials didn't ask questions indiscriminately, so they sentenced Su San to death and put him on death row, only waiting for another day for surgery.

When Susan was sentenced to death, Wang Jinglong was promoted to be the governor of Shaanxi Province. When Wang Jinglong learned that Susan had committed a capital crime, he remained anonymous and finally found out the truth.

Susan's grievances have been cleared, the real criminals have been brought to justice, corrupt officials have been dismissed for investigation, Susan and Wang Jinglong have lovers, and everything will be fine.

This story has been compiled into the legend of Wan Zhen Ji Yu Bangji (Qujing Yuanshantang) in the Ming Dynasty. The Legend of Yutangchun (Li Ge criticized the old opera) is a Kunqu opera, and the script has been lost. Yu Tang Chun in Qing Dynasty is a flower work with unknown author. It is not only the opening scene of Beijing Opera, but also one of the most popular plays in China. According to records, the Peking Opera version was performed by Sanqing Class in the seventh year of Jiaqing (1802) (recorded in the Qing Dynasty note "All Fragrant Countries"). According to the materials cited in Hankou Talk written by Fan Kai from Nanxun during the Daoguang period, Li Cuiguan, an artist from Tongcheng County, Hubei Province, once sang Yu Tang Chun and other plays when he participated in the "Rong Qing Department" troupe in Hankou.

The whole drama "Yutangchun" includes folds such as visiting the hospital, temple fair, deduction, joint trial, visiting the prison and reunion, and almost covers all forms of Xipi singing in Beijing opera. Other operas and local operas are also widely performed with other operas, such as Su San Qi Jie and Yu Tangchun. Among the local operas, the version of Pingju Pai is the most famous. Tongzhou Bangzi, Zhou Pu Bangzi, Shaanxi Opera, Jin Opera, Han Opera, xiang opera Opera, Anhui Opera, Guangxi Opera, Qi Opera, Yunnan Opera, Guangdong Opera, Chaozhou Opera and Henan Opera all have this drama or "explanation", "joint trial" and "prison visit". There is also an ugly drama "Forgetting Eight Offenders at Night", which is also one of the whole dramas of Yu Tang Chun.

I like watching Peking Opera or Jin Opera "Yu Tang Chun" and "Su San Qi Jie" since I was a child. Everyone is familiar with this song: Susan left Hongtong County ... and I can hum a few words. But I have never associated the story with Shanxi. After getting familiar with some geographical knowledge, I am a little confused: did the story explained by Su Sanqi take place in Shanxi? Is that Jinnan who left Hongtong County?

In that special era, one day my mother came back from work and said: Premier Zhou criticized a person. This person was the director of the Revolutionary Committee of Hongdong County at that time and came from the famous Dacha area. At that time, Shanxi's political form was "if you can talk about the big difference, you will carry the foreign knife", and the big difference (belonging to a certain Yang county) was mentioned by everyone, so that there were cadres in a certain Yang county everywhere. My mother's colleague from a team was promoted by the sales staff of a brigade in the county. Most of them don't know their major, hold power and respect themselves. They are arrogant and unscrupulous! The director of Hongtong County is one. In order to build a new county building, he demolished the official prison in the Ming Dynasty on the southwest side of the original county government (to be honest, the county government was rebuilt and expanded on the basis of the original county government in Hongtong County) without reporting or even anyone's consent and approval. This county prison is the only county prison in China in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the earliest existing complete county prison. Founded in the second year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1369), it has a history of more than 600 years. 1965 was listed as "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit". It is said that Su San was imprisoned here when he was wronged in Hongtong County, which was later called "Su San Prison". As early as 1964, Wang, a famous archaeologist and former director of National Cultural Heritage Administration, visited Hongdong, confirming that the prison was a rare prison in Ming Dynasty in China, and wrote a poem excitedly: "Tiger Head Prison is full of red makeup, and a song disturbs the smelly water." Where is Wang San's son now? There are eight walls left here. "

At that time, Yang was a hot cadre, and his decision was beyond doubt. No one dared to criticize him. Now that Premier Zhou has personally criticized it, everyone is particularly Japanese! I asked my mother casually, which prison does Susan live in? Mom nodded and I said, Susan is a real person? Mom said: Probably. I heard that her file has been sent to Beijing. This is the first time that I learned that Yu Tang Chun is a true story, which impressed me deeply.

At the beginning of 1984, with the support of provincial and local cultural relics management departments, the original prison foundation was excavated in the local area, and the original prison was built according to its original appearance after repeated argumentation with reference to photos inside and outside the original prison and related archives. I usually don't visit newly-built antique buildings. In order to understand the Ming Dynasty prison and experience the situation of Susan, I went to Hongtong County on business, specially bought a high-priced wronged ticket of 15 yuan, and got into the so-called Susan death row to have a look. Unfortunately, only a few sundries such as well stones are really old objects, and the rest are newly repaired.

How about the prequel of Susan Qi Jie?

Yutangchun is Susan's stage name. The legendary love story between her and Wang Jinglong was edited by Feng Menglong, a novelist in the Ming Dynasty, in The Story of Warning, Volume 24, Yu Tang Chun meets her husband, and also happened in Love History, Volume 2.

It turned out that when Su was three or five years old, a musician in Beijing and his wife bought her back from Shaanxi with a catty of gold. After ten years' training, she has been cultivated into a famous prostitute in Beijing who can sing and dance well and has extraordinary literary talent. The guest gave the stage name-Yutangchun.

Yutangchun does not receive guests easily, but mainly plays and sings gracefully. Wang Qiong, a wise minister at that time, offended Liu Jin and was forced to move out of Beijing, leaving only his son Jinglong to collect loans over the years and return to his hometown Yongcheng. Eighteen-year-old Wang Jinglong quickly recovered all the principal and interest. Two days before going home, he went to Susan's place, took out the gold, and immediately brought Susan out with a scale of gold. The development of the following story is "Susan Qi Jie".

Susan is a real person, which is recognized by quite a few people. The evidence is roughly the Ming Dynasty prison in Hongtong County and some related relics and place names. However, prisons and related places can be set up according to people, which is subjective and arbitrary and unconvincing. The real conclusive evidence is the folklore of everyone in the "Su San Archives", especially Shanxi and Taiyuan. Archives, yellow paper and black letters are powerful proofs. There are many historical statements about Su San's archives, which can be summarized as follows:

First, in Shanxi, especially in Taiyuan, it has long been said that "the file framed by Shen Hongzhi's wife's skin" is true. He also said that before the Revolution of 1911, Su San's files were stolen by Sun Huanlun, the magistrate of Hongdong County, Hebei Province.

It is also said that the Su San archives were sold by Sun Huanlun to antique dealers in Paris, France.

Secondly, it is mentioned that there is indeed an interrogation file about Su San in Hongtong County. Zhang Zhidong once read it and found that the records in the file are basically consistent with those handed down from generation to generation. In the early years of the Republic of China, there was an old aristocratic family in Suzhou who spent money to buy a Hongtong county magistrate. During his tenure, he consulted the archives of Wanli and Apocalypse, and also found the archives about Susan.

Third, some people say that Susan is not a fictional person. According to the facts, her file has been kept in the closet of a prison in Hongtong County, Shanxi Province for nearly four centuries. In the 1940s, the Japanese who came to China took it away. When the Japanese invaded China, they wanted to kill, rob and burn, and greedily took Susan's file. About the Japanese learning about Susan through drama, they took her files out of interest in Susan.

Statement 4: It is said that all the files of Susan have been kept. When Hongtong was liberated, General Chen Geng gave special orders to the siege troops, and they must not be lost. It's a pity that "Govin" swept away the "four old" and was destroyed at once.

Fifth, it is said that all the files of Su Sanyi's case were kept in Yazhong County, Shanxi Province until the ninth year of the Republic of China (AD 1920), in which the confessions and final judgments of Su Sanyi and Pi Shi were recorded in detail. Sadly, this original file was stolen by Sun Huanlun, the former county magistrate of Hong Tong, and sold to a French antique dealer. However, the copy left behind was also taken away by the Japanese when the Japanese invaders invaded China. Unfortunately, there is only one verdict left in Hongtong.

According to statement 6, some people say that the story of Su San's suffering and her husband's rescue really happened in Hongtong County, Shaanxi Province. Until the ninth year of the Republic of China (A.D. 1920), the judicial bureau of Hongtong County still kept Su San's case file. At this time, the descendants of the Wangs pretended to be jewelry merchants and went to Taiyuan, where they made a lot of money and made friends from all walks of life. It happened that the former county magistrate of Hongtong County resigned due to illness, and everyone recommended him to take office in Hongtong County.

When he arrived, he went to the archives when he was free, which was the case in March. Wang Daren disappeared after March, and someone was sent to investigate. According to the clues provided by the county government, it was found that Susan's files in the archives room were lost. It is believed that the stolen case file must be the county magistrate of Wang Xing. Why did county magistrate Wang steal this case file? Some people think that Wang Yiding is a descendant, because the prostitute in "Yu Tang Chun" came from a humble background and humiliated the reputation of the Wang family. In order to eliminate the real background of the play and cut off the source of the story, he deliberately came to Shaanxi and stole the case file to convince the world that Susan had nothing to do with Wang Jinglong.

Say seven, someone is listening to the lecture. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, there was an ancient Guangdong Chaozhou opera "Yutangchun", which played the whole Su San. This story introduces Su San's life experience in the lyrics. The old artists of Chaozhou opera all say that this is true and passed down from generation to generation. The material comes from Su San's oral confession file in Hongtong County.

The authenticity of Su San's explanation is not only of interest to ordinary people, but also of concern to the government, which is conducting an investigation.

The Peking Opera "Yutangchun" is called "Yutangchun is in trouble with her husband" in Feng Menglong's "Warning". Later generations verified that Wang Jinglong's prototype in history was Wang Sanshan, a scholar in the 29th year of Wanli, who was born in Yongcheng County, Henan Province today. He died of rebellion against the toast during the apocalypse, and posthumous title was loyal.

In order to solve the mystery, someone tried to sort out the connection between Wang Jinglong and Wang Sanshan from the periphery, thus proving that Su San is true or false.

During the period of 1957, Mr. Tian Han and Literature, History and Philosophy magazine of Shandong University formed a team to conduct a field survey on Yutangchun. This survey basically confirmed that such a story did happen in history. One of the reasons for the identification is Wang Sanshan's life experience, which is basically consistent with the plot in the novel. He was sent to Shaanxi by the imperial court to investigate the case after he was admitted to the Wanli Examination, which is also in line with the plot of Wang Jinglong's revenge for Susan in the novel. Wait a minute.

A few days ago, Zheng Lin, secretary of Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and executive vice governor in charge of culture and education, told Wang Dingnan in Shanxi that a leader of North China Bureau asked him to organize people to study the story of Susan, and he told Guo Tongzhong, secretary of Hongtong County Party Committee. The relevant departments of Hongtong County collected some scripts and songbooks and wrote a material. He is not satisfied. I hope Wang Dingnan will study it.

Wang Dingnan has done a lot of work for this. He heard that before the Revolution of 1911, there was a legend in Taiyuan: there was a "Su San file" in the archives room of Hongtong County Yamen. Suntech (later a librarian of Shanxi Provincial Museum of Literature and History. Participated in the Revolution of 1911 in Taiyuan and served as Secretary-General of Wen Shouquan's Office. ) At that time, I was young, curious and friendly with Sun Huanlun. So, I went to Hongtong County to invite Sun Huanlun to watch Susan Files. Sun Qilun and Suntech ask the person in charge of the archives. The man said, "There is no Susan file in the archives." . I once heard someone (who was it, Wang Dingnan didn't explain) say, "During the Tongzhi period, a Chen Zhifu took this file."

Wang Dingnan is a staunch revolutionary. /kloc-0 joined the China Youth League in April, 929. 1930 to join the China * * * production party. Party 193 1 He went to Ji Hongchang to help with the work. 1935 He became the secretary of the Henan Provincial Working Committee at the beginning. From 65438 to 0938, he served as the special secretary of Beiping Special Committee. 1944 organized the "Henan People's Self-Defense Force" in Henan, and was disarmed and detained by the Tang Department. Gao Shuxun promised to rescue Wang Dingnan. Since then, Gao Wang and his wife have become friends of life and death. 1in may, 945, he was sent to work in Gao Shuxun, deputy commander of the first1kloc-0/war zone of the Kuomintang and commander of the new eighth army, which contributed to the uprising in Handan, Gao Shuxun. After the Gaobu uprising, it was reorganized into a democratic national army, and Wang Dingnan was appointed as the director of the General Political Department of the Army. /kloc-0 was detained in June 1947 because of the "mutiny" of the Democratic National Army, and/kloc-0 was released from Beijing prison in June 1953. Later, he served as secretary, Commissioner and director of the North China Administrative Committee and the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Central Ministry of Internal Affairs. 196 1 year later, he served as the deputy director of the Counselor's Office of Shanxi Provincial People's Committee, the deputy director and curator of Shanxi Provincial Institute of Literature and History, the vice chairman of the fourth and fifth CPPCC committees, a member of the party group, and a member of the fifth, sixth and seventh CPPCC committees. 1990 died in Taiyuan on September 27th.

Wang Dingnan came to the conclusion that "the widespread spread of Su San's story is due to the novelist Feng Menglong" and that "the novelist can fabricate it out of thin air, but it cannot be regarded as a historical fact". Otherwise, it will give people the following impression: a socialist country that believes in scientific Marxist theory and historical materialism, and some competitors take fictional legends seriously for "money", which will inevitably become the laughing stock of "self-deception".

Whether the story of "Su San" is true or not, the people concerned have their own opinions, and they can't agree. Someone compiled this story into The Complete Works of China's Unsolved Mysteries.

1939, my mother walked from Beiping City to Dushi (the center of Pingxi Anti-Japanese Base Area at that time) to participate in the revolution, and spent a difficult time there. 1995 I made up my mind to feel the mountains and rivers where my mother had fought and trekked, so I took advantage of my business trip and tried to skim over there.

From Beijing to Fangshan in front of Du Shi, there is a temple called Yunju Temple, which is about 70 kilometers away from the city center. My mother stopped here when she arrived at the Pingxi base. I have made Yunju Temple one of the must-see places. Who knows that my first visit deeply shocked me: there is a stone sutra in Yunju Temple, which was engraved in the Tripitaka in the year of Sui Daye (605). It is monk Jing Wan who persistently carved Buddhist scriptures in order to maintain Buddhism and spread Buddhist scriptures. After the Sui, Tang, Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it lasted for 1039, and the printed edition1122,3572 volumes, 65438+. Such large-scale printing and carving has a long history and is rare in the history of world culture.

Yunju Temple was built in the late Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty. After years of renovation, five courtyards and six halls have been formed. There are an annex hall, an inner court and a monk's room on both sides, and there are two towers facing each other. The North Pagoda is a brick stupa of Liao Dynasty, also known as "Luohan Pagoda", which was built during the Tianqing period of Liao Dynasty. The south tower and most of the halls were destroyed by Japanese planes at 1942. 1985 was restored one after another, and now Yunju Temple covers an area of more than 70,000 square meters.

The stone sutra, paper sutra and woodcut sutra collected in Yunju Temple are called the "Three Musts". Shijing, the caves where Shijing is hidden, and the Tang Liao Pagoda Group are treasures of Buddhist cultural characteristics, which were first announced by the State Council as national key cultural relics protection units on March 4th, 2008.

Almost every time I go to Du Shi, I have to go to Yunju Temple to feel it first. This is the third time I have paid my respects. Because my companion accompanied me several times, I finally couldn't say anything this time. Let me worship alone. After reading "The Story of the Stone", I saw the newly-launched collection archives exhibition in the Piandian Hall next to the courtyard of the main hall. The exhibition notes that the contents of the exhibition include a judgment document of Su San case. My heart moved and I took out ten dollars to buy a ticket. Simple showroom, dimly lit, with "No Photographing" signs everywhere in the room. I don't want to spend any more time. There is a car waiting for me outside. I'm not allowed to take any more pictures, so I'll just skim it. I didn't care about other documents and went directly to the "Su San Trial" showcase. I saw the small print written on light yellow hemp paper. I don't care too much about the content and specific style, but I think the formal letters written are not very nice. I thought I'd take a closer look next time, so I glanced at it and left. There is also an exhibition of Buddhist scriptures and woodcut prints in a hall near the gate. I didn't want a ticket, so I went in and took a casual look. Buddhist scriptures are from the Ming Dynasty and later ... When I saw a large number of woodcut prints stored on the shelves in the hall, some of them were obviously weathered and decayed regardless of the wind. I am very distressed to tell the staff that you have to change the preservation conditions of these prints, otherwise they will be weathered and destroyed. They Nuo Nuo.

When I arrived in Beijing for a meeting, I told the leaders of the Capital Library (the library in Beijing) what I saw in Yunju Temple. He casually said: those files were temporarily placed in our library that year, and brother Wen was in rags. At that time, the leaders were afraid of an accident and asked the city leaders to find another place to store it. Yunju Temple is remote, so they have to store it there. It's incredible that the Capital Library refused to collect such a precious collection of materials. Ask again, he is vague, and I can't say more.

Later, I inquired many times from many places and summarized various situations. It turns out that this is still a major event, a continuation of the famous "8,000 sacks" incident.

The Cabinet of Qing Dynasty was an important institution for the Qing emperor to announce imperial edicts, submit poems, hold ceremonies and collect archives and documents. The big warehouse belonging to the cabinet was built in the Ming Dynasty and expanded in the Qing Dynasty. The archives kept in the cabinet vault of the Forbidden City are "ouchi archives". There are numerous archives in the museum, including imperial edicts, memorials, Zhu Yu, foreign stamps, imperial examination papers and books, as well as records, sermons, family letters, history books, old files moved from Shengjing in the early Qing Dynasty, some files in the late Ming Dynasty and other files, which are precious materials for studying the history of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Due to the lack of specialized staff, it was badly preserved and damaged. Over the years, the number has increased, and the warehouse is not enough. It has been destroyed many times.

These files were regarded as treasures in the Qing Dynasty, and even "Jiuqing and Hanlin were forbidden to read a word about them all their lives". Wang Guowei said: "In the past 300 years, except for counselors and provincial officials, bachelor's doctors have rarely seen their beauty and wealth."

1898 (in the 24th year of Guangxu), the warehouse was seriously leaking, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs decided to repair it. If the G8 invades, it will be suspended for 10 years. 1909 (Xuantongyuannian), a corner of a warehouse collapsed and millions of files in the warehouse were removed. Some of the recent files have been moved to Wenhua Hall, and some are considered old and useless, ready to burn. Luo Zhenyu, a famous archaeologist, knew about it and hurriedly asked Zhang Zhidong to play it correctly and destroy it. Zhang appointed Luo Zhenyu to handle these documents. The files to be destroyed are handed over to the department. Luo packed some examination papers (mainly from the Hall of the Ministry of Rites in the back floor) in 8,000 sacks and moved them to Jingyige in imperial academy, the Qing court. After the Revolution of 1911. In 19 12, the Beiyang warlord government planned to establish a history museum and set up a preparatory office in imperial academy, with cabinet archives as the basic collection. Later, the preparatory office of the museum moved to the Wumen building of the Forbidden City, and the archives were also moved to the street outside the Wumen, and some of them were piled up in the doorway of the end door.

These sacks are often reduced in price. It turned out that the laborer dumped the paper on the ground and sold sacks alone. 19 18, Fu Zengxiang became the section chief of education and began to sort out these sacks. Lu Xun said that at that time, some people "thought that there must be a good Song edition book in the sack-the orphan of China". There are indeed books from the Song Dynasty in the sack, and Fu Zengxiang is a famous bibliophile. He wrote in the Book Inscription of Tibetan Garden: "When Yu Yu was appointed as the Ministry of Education in the Wuwu (19 18), he sent someone to pay tribute to the red copy sacks of the cabinet in Yiting, picked out some books of the Song Dynasty and ordered them to be stored in the history museum. Li Jiaowei received several copies and scattered them in the factory market. I also received two copies. " At that time, the price of Song edition books was already one or two gold per page.

Lu Xun, who was in charge of the Ministry of Education at that time, and another person were ordered to move twenty sacks to the Ministry of Education, where they searched for treasures. Then I moved some bags. In the process of searching, officials of the Ministry of Education often go back and forth in old papers, and many people come to "steal". Some workers also picked up some yellow silk labels and things like that.

192 1 years ago or so, the Ministry of Education, which had been unable to pay for it for several years, treated the archives of the Qing Dynasty ouchi as waste paper and auctioned them to Xidan Tongmao Zengzhi Store for 4,000 yuan to maintain the operation of the Ministry of Education. These files weigh about 1.5 thousand Jin and are filled with 8000 sacks. Paper shops found some documents for sale, most of which were tied up with reeds after waterlogging, and were ready to be transported to Tangshan and Dingxing to make "rejuvenation paper". Luo Zhenyu, the widow of the Qing Dynasty, learned the news and bought these files at the price of 12000 yuan, and prepared the stacks for storage. Luo Zhenyu found some precious secret manuscripts in the historical records, and selected them in the Catalogue of Historical Materials in Daku and Three Records of Qing Taizu. However, it has lost more than 20,000 kilograms and hundreds of thousands of dollars. 1924, Roche resold the archives to Li Shengduo, the former minister of the Qing Dynasty in Japan, the speaker of the new Senate in the early Republic of China and a big collector, at the price of 16000 yuan. The price is 1.6 million yuan, and the weight is about 1.2 million Jin. Li Shengduo scoured again, fished out many rare things, and gave 60,000 of them to Puyi. But he has no strength to check all the bags.

1929, Li shengduo resold this part of the archives to the institute of history and language of academia sinica for 18000 yuan. At this time, the file is about 654.38+100,000 Jin, which is very messy, and about one-fifth of it is completed. The Institute of Historical Linguistics also selected and published a series of historical books and 40 volumes of historical materials of Ming and Qing Dynasties. On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, the Institute brought some files to Nanjing, and after many twists and turns, it moved to Taiwan Province Province.

The rest is about 50,000 Jin, about 1700 sacks, which are the property of China No.1 Historical Archives and are still stored in Wumen Building. These 65,438+0,700 sacks have been set up in New China. It was not until 1958 that these "treasures" that were "too bad to eat and too bad to throw away" began to be cleaned up. The National Archives Bureau was established more than three years ago.

Clean up for the first time, mainly all * * * members of the archives. In the process of cleaning up, many valuable things were found, such as scientific manuscripts and manuscripts during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, and the remnants of revised manuscripts recorded by the Qing emperor Nurhachi. This clean-up was affirmed by experts and scholars such as Qi Yanming, Wu Han, Wang, Lu Zhenyu and Jane Bozan.

The second clean-up lasted more than three months. Participants include cadres from the National Archives Bureau, students from the National Archives Learning Class, students from Beijing Institute of Art, and senior three students from Beijing No.22 Middle School, No.23 Middle School, No.3/KLOC-0 Middle School and No.43 Middle School.

Finally, the dismantled fragments were classified and packed into more than 300 bags (less than 10 bags), among which Wu Sangui's manuscript and Zheng Chenggong's anti-Qing imperial edict were the most valuable, and the remaining 1300 sacks were all wastes.

On September 25th, 1958, the National Archives Bureau wrote an inventory report to the State Council and put forward some suggestions. It is planned to sort out more than 300 valuable bags and destroy most of the waste products. The State Council leading comrades made instructions on the same day "agreed to do it. In the original destroyed 1358 bag, if schools and research institutions are willing to take a part as a specimen, they can give it away. "

These volumes of files are kept in the building of the First Historical Archives in China.

The rest of the sacks to be destroyed were stored in the empty space of the First Historical Archives, and some buildings in imperial academy were occupied and stored. During the period of 1956, the Capital Library moved to imperial academy to use the original building. Lighting, moistureproof, fire prevention and space do not meet the requirements of library building. At the beginning of the break-up of the four old houses, the person in charge at that time reported to the superior and transferred the files to Yunju Temple.

This is the origin of the file copy of the "Su San Case Judgment".

When I came back, I told it as an anecdote to my friend Zhang Xiaochuan and his brother. Soon we had the opportunity to go to Yunju Temple together. The "Stone Sutra Exhibition" is still there, and the "Buddhist Sutra and Seal Cutting Exhibition" is also on display, but the archives exhibition is gone. At that time, I bought an anthology recording my mother's anti-Japanese war experience in the canteen of the temple.

I have consulted a lot of information recently. Although there are different opinions, no one mentioned the copy of the "Su San Judgment" of Yunju Temple.

Once again, only Fangshan, Chad held the "Yang Naiwu and Chinese Cabbage Conviction" file reproduction exhibition (the file is stored in Yunju Temple). Is it time, my memory is confused? To this end, I called Brother Nana Ogawa the other day, and he confirmed that I had said this sentence in those days, indicating that I was not old and my memory declined. In addition, he also provided a clue: when he was in college, the teacher said that he had Su San's file and sent it to Beijing before the Cultural Revolution. Recalling that time, I once had dinner with the top person in charge of Shanxi publishing industry at that time. During the dinner, he talked about "Susan file". I said, in Yunju Temple, I have seen it. He expressed surprise! He knew that Yunju Temple had a file of Susan, but he had never seen it. Friar Nana Ogawa and several others were present at the banquet that day.

As for how the copy of the judgment of the "Su San case" is in the "eight thousand sacks", that is another topic. Anyway, I have read a document "Su San Case Judgment". Why didn't anyone give such clear evidence? If there is a busybody, you can go to Yunju Temple for consultation, which can clarify the so-called historical mystery!

Susan's mystery can be solved. Susan's novels, legends and plays are not fabricated out of thin air. Susan's story exists in history. Dramatists such as Feng Menglong expanded and interpreted it into novels, legends and plays, and made bold changes in names, places, plots and contradictions, which made Susan's story spread more widely.