Tang legend. The author is unknown. It is generally considered to be a work of the early Tang Dynasty. At the end of Liang Datong, Ouyang Ge led the army south to Changle. His wife was kidnapped by the white ape. Ouyang Yang led the troops into the mountains to kill the white ape, but his wife was pregnant and gave birth to a son who looked like an ape. "Harmony, prolific literature and good books, famous time." "Zhizhai Shu Lu solved the problem? The novel says that Ouyang Yang was the father of Ou Yangxun, a famous calligrapher in the early Tang Dynasty. Because Ou Yangxun looks like a macaque, Sun Chang Wuji, a colleague minister at that time, once wrote poems (Liu Yang's Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties and Meng Meng's Skill Poetry? "Laughter"). "This biography is based on its ridicule, and it is true." It was written by contemporaries, which started the trend of slandering people with novels in the Tang Dynasty. The word "Jiang Zongbu" in the title means that Jiang was always a friend of Ouyang Ge. After Ouyang Ge's death, he passed the inquiry, so he knew about it, but he didn't say it, so he made it up.
It is recorded in ancient books that apes robbed human women of their wives. Han Jiao Yanshou, Lin Yi? Kun Pi said, "The great man in Nanshan stole my concubine." Later, Zhang Hua's "Natural History" and other books in the Western Jin Dynasty had more specific descriptions. This paper is influenced by it in conception. Its content still follows the legacy of the Six Dynasties mystery novels, but compared with the earlier Story of the Ancient Mirror, it has a complete structure, tortuous plot and vivid description, and has a certain historical position in the process of the maturity of the legendary art in the Tang Dynasty. The story of Chen Xunjian losing his wife in Meiling was born out of this book in the Song Dynasty.