"Sanyan" and "Erpai" are similar in writing age and content form, so they are collectively referred to as "Sanyan Erpai" by later generations, becoming the representative works of China's ancient short stories and occupying an important position in the history of China's ancient literature.
As a peak of ancient vernacular short stories, Shi Jing Tong Yan constructed his own unique artistic world. On the basis of "telling" and "telling stories", China's ancient vernacular novels were processed and improved by literati. The speaker's story is called a story book, and modern scholars call it a story book with three words and two shots. Compared with the earlier Tales, Shi Jing Tong Yan has undergone great changes and developments in language, style and structure. The first is language, which has changed the situation of the separation of written language and spoken language in the past, and completely adopts popular and fluent vernacular language to avoid the confusion of written language and spoken language as much as possible, and the style tends to be unified. Most of the novels included in Awakening the World are mature stories, reaching a high artistic level. Compared with previous similar works, the writing skills have been significantly improved. Storytelling novel is the base of storytelling, which is strong in story and wins by plot. Xingshi Hengyan inherited this tradition and made new progress. Most of the stories in the works are not straight lines, but ups and downs, full of twists and turns, which are fascinating.
Feng Menglong (1574- 1646), a native of Changzhou (now Wuxian, Jiangsu), was the first outstanding popular writer in the history of China literature. Active in the Ming Dynasty,,, Xing, and, their thoughts and art represent the highest achievement of China's early vernacular short stories.
Ling Mengchu (1580— 1644), whose real name is Fang Xuan, and whose nickname is Chucheng, is a master of empty view. Zhejiang Wucheng (now Xing Wu) people. Ling Mengchu was born in a bureaucratic landlord family and entered school at the age of twelve, but he failed repeatedly. Feng Menglong, an 18-year-old food supplement student and three-story author, finally turned to writing. In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), at the age of 55, he was elected as the magistrate of Shanghai county with a deputy tribute. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, he was appointed as the judge of Xuzhou and assigned to Fangcun. Before taking office, he was "lying on the road, crying and blocking the road, and he also cried." In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), the peasant army in Li Zicheng rose as He Tengjiao, participated in the suppression, was surrounded by Li Zicheng troops in Fangcun, refused to surrender, and died of resentment and vomiting blood at the age of 65.
In the Ming Dynasty, the old man holding the urn (whose real name is unknown) selected 40 masterpieces from it and compiled it into Wonders of Today and Ancient Times. Because of the large number of "Sanyan" and "Erpai", it is difficult to buy, but it is still popular today.