Chen Shimei was infamous for thousands of years, but was maliciously slandered by the villain .

Mondo History Updated on 2024-02-06

The TV series "Bao Qingtian" put the drama "Quanmei Case" on TV, which can be said to be a household name, and the male protagonist Chen Shimei has also become a "scumbag" in the mouth of the majority of women, but does this "scumbag" spurned by everyone really exist in history?

First of all, Chen Shimei is a real person, and it is recorded in the "Dictionary of Hubei Historical Figures": Chen Shimei is the ** of the Qing Dynasty, formerly known as Nian Gu, also known as Shumei, and is now a native of Junzhou, Danjiangkou City, Hubei, born in an official family.

In the eighth year of Shunzhi, although Chen Shimei was talented and ambitious, her family was poor and she couldn't make up the trouble to go to Beijing to catch the exam. It just so happened that some enthusiastic people felt that it was too much of a pity, so they came forward to match, and with the funding of other classmates, they were able to conduct scientific research with several classmates. As a result, Chen Shimei was appointed as a senior high school scholar in Qipinzhi County, and the classmates who went to take the exam together were all named Sun Shan. It is recorded in the literature "Junzhou Chronicles: Jinshi Chapter":"In the eighth year of Shunzhi (1651), Xinmao Kejinshi. "

Chen Shimei's official fortune was prosperous, and Chen Shimei was promoted to Shaanxi Xuedao, which is equivalent to the current organization minister, specifically selecting talents for the country. Because Chen Shimei was an honest official and very capable, Emperor Kangxi appreciated him very much, and was later promoted to Guizhou as an envoy, concurrently serving as the chief secretary to participate in politics, and the official residence was of three grades.

According to the local folklore of Junzhou and the inscription in Chen Shimei's tomb found in Danjiangkou City in 1992, Chen Shimei was a clean and good official who was upright and honest.

However, since it is said that Chen Shimei is a Qing official, then"He hated the poor and loved the rich, killed his wife and children"Where did it come from? The answer is to offend the villain. At that time, Chen Shimei was an official in Guizhou, and his classmates from the same township came to take refuge, hoping that Chen could seek an official and a half-position for them. Later, more and more people came to him, and it was difficult to resist, so he could only ask the housekeeper to refuse them one by one.

Among them, there are two of them who have gone to Beijing together to take the exam, called Hu Mengdie and Qiu Menglin, Hu Mengdie also funded Chen Shimei, they all came to Chen Shimei to try to get an official and a half position, but they were directly rejected by the housekeeper, and they had a sense of revenge.

After the two went home, they spent silver and two to ask the troupe to adapt the play "The Pipa Story", and they replaced the ungrateful male protagonist in the play with Chen Shimei, and the female protagonist with Qin Xianglian, and gave it a new name, called "Sai Pipa".

The content of this play is of course highly similar to the original play, but with a different name. They didn't dare to use their real names, and replaced Chen Shimei with Chen Shumei, and also added the identity of Chen Shimei as a concubine, touring in Henan and Shaanxi. It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a Henan opera troupe came to Junzhou to perform, Chen Shimei's descendants were so popular on the spot, Chen Shimei's eighth-generation grandson organized the family, smashed the troupe's suitcase on the spot, and the actors were killed and injured several people, and the performance could only be forced to stop. So far, residents of Danjiangkou City (formerly Junzhou) surnamed Chen have not allowed Chen Shimei's plays to be performed in the county.

Seeing this, you may ask, wasn't Bao Gong in this TV series, but Chen Shimei was from the Qing Dynasty, how could he be given a ban by Bao Gong of the Song Dynasty, could Bao Gong also "cross"? That's another story:

It is rumored that in the first month of a certain year in the Qing Dynasty, a troupe was performing "Qin Xianglian Hugging the Pipa", and there were many people watching the play, and they felt that the drama was too short to listen to, so they refused to disperse for a long time. The class owner had no choice, so he had to add a short play of "Chenzhou Grain" before the main play.

The play sang until noon, and when the plot arrived at Chen Shimei's house, Han Qi was ordered to hunt down and kill Qin Xianglian, and on the way, Qin Xianglian was secretly released, and Han Qi killed herself, and Qin Xianglian fell in a pool ......of blood with her children in her armsThat's the end of the play. But I was not happy to watch the play, and everyone shouted in unison:"Kill Chen Shimei! "For a while, bricks and clods of soil greeted the stage together, and the owner of the troupe was as anxious as ants on a hot pot, turning around in the background.

At this time, it was played in the previous "Chenzhou Grain"."Bao Gong"The person who has not yet removed the makeup, asked"What happened in the audience? "The class master saw him"Bao Gong", I had an idea, I thought about it, and I was busy pushing him to the stage:"Quick, come to the front desk and continue singing. "

Bao Gong"I was also anxious and said:"You're stupid! I am from the Song Dynasty, Chen Shimei is in the Qing Dynasty, a difference of hundreds of years, how can I sing on the same stage? "

Oh, now, a dead horse is a live horse doctor, this will, who cares if he is not in the same dynasty! "The head of the class said.

Chen Shimei is a colt, only you'Wrap Kuroko'The iron face is selfless, and you can use the faucet to relieve the anger of the people on the scene, even if it is a bad show. "

Bao Gong "had no choice but to reorganize his clothes, and took Wang Dynasty, Ma Han, Zhang Long, and Zhao Hu to the stage, and he used Chen Shimei as a guillotine, and the audience cheered, and the effect was surprisingly good. Since then, the small drama "Qin Xianglian Holding the Pipa" has become the big drama "The Case of Quanmei".

At this point, Chen Shimei's injustices have been solved. These things imposed on Chen Shimei to dislike the poor and love the rich, kill his wife and children, turned out to be the work of some jealous villains, and it is really an eternal unjust case.

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