One of these two historical materials is recorded in the sixth volume of the book, Mountains and Rivers:
The other is in Volume 8, Ji Yi Shan Mausoleum:
The author of Chang 'an Classified Records is Chang 'an scholar Luo Tianxiang. He classified the Annals of Chang 'an on the basis of the Annals of Chang 'an in the Song Dynasty, and collected the historical materials of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties after the Song Dynasty. All his new materials are characterized by "new ideas". He collected these two historical materials of Meng Jiangnv, and their preciousness and significance are at least three:
First, it supplements the blank of the legend of Meng Jiangnu in Yuan Dynasty. In the 1920s, when Gu Jiegang, a great scholar, set off a nationwide craze to study Meng Jiangnv, the historical materials of the Yuan Dynasty were only inferred from the sentences in Song Yuan and Lost Traces, and there was no complete story content. According to the scattered data found, the track in Ghost Record is Meng Jiangnv's Cold Clothes (now lost), while the characters' songs in Yuanqu have only eight single sentences. The tracks are arranged in chronological order as follows:
From these lyrics, we can infer that the legendary story of Meng Jiangnu in Yuan Dynasty, the basic plot of sending cold clothes and crying at the Great Wall actually existed, but the whole story is not clear. In the record of "Crying for Spring" in Ban Zhi, we can see the complete story of Meng Jiangnv in Yuan Dynasty, which is the cultural and historical value of Ban Zhi to the four major folklore in China, especially the legend of Meng Jiangnv.
Second, let's take a look at the basic story of the legend of Meng Jiangnu in Yuan Dynasty: Qi Liang went to the border town to build the Great Wall and never came back. Meng Jiangnu sent cold clothes to the border, and her husband died for building the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnu cried down the Great Wall, confessed her husband with blood and returned home with broken bones, so there was a crying spring. The legend retains the basic story form of the legend of Meng Jiangnu in Tang Dynasty, and it is in the same strain as the legend of Meng Jiangnu, a fellow official.
There are not many historical materials about Meng Jiangnv, who was a fellow official in the Yuan Dynasty. Only one place can be found in the local historical materials, namely, the article "Seeing Gold through Stone Fissures" in Volume 8 of Tongguan County Records in Ming Dynasty, and the "Inscription of Yin Tongguan County in the Second Year of Yuan Dynasty to Zheng Dynasty" in front of Jiangnv Cave, but unfortunately there is no inscription. These scarce contents (including those newly discovered and those that can be read in the Yuan Dynasty) constitute all the materials of the legends of Meng Jiangnv in the Yuan Dynasty discovered so far, which not only fills the gap in the legends of this historical period, but also proves once again that the legends of Meng Jiangnv were written by the same official, so they are particularly precious.
Third, the legend of Meng Jiangnv in the same door was formed in the Tang Dynasty (from the records of Shu Wei Huinvshan, its germination should have originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties) to the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Because it is the earliest birthplace of legends, legends and stories have always been self-contained. Unfortunately, the Yuan Dynasty was a country that lacked contact. The discovery of these two historical materials not only connects a complete history of legends, but also confirms my textual research and research in the article "The Legend of Meng Jiangnv Originated in Tongchuan"
These two historical materials also included two poems by Shang Zuoshan, a poet at that time, and filled the blank of Meng Jiangnv's poems in the Yuan Dynasty. The author Shang Zuoshan, whose real name is Ting, is an old man named Zuo Shan. He and Yuan Haowen, a great poet in Yuan Dynasty, are good friends. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, it was the Dongping shogunate, and later it was the deputy history (equivalent to the deputy prime minister). In the ninth year of Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1272), Shang Zuoshan was appointed as the king of Anxi, and in the fourteenth year of Yuan Dynasty, the court changed the Jingzhao House to the presidential system of Anxi (now governing xi 'an). When Wang Bei marched into Shaanxi, he was ordered to "learn more about Guanzhong". He made ten suggestions, suggesting that Yan 'an militia should be trained to prevent border troubles. After that, he really "rebelled" Wang Yun, a litterateur in Yuan Dynasty and a student of Yuan Haowen, wrote "Mourning on Mount Zuo", and praised him for "Zuo Lu's counsellor aspires to the Yuan Dynasty, but Qin's skill is more difficult to decide", which is his deeds in this period. It was during this period that he asked Yijun to write a poem about the fountain of tears. The History of the Yuan Dynasty has its own biography, and it is said that there are "more than a thousand poems". He may have written many poems about Meng Jiangnv, but unfortunately they have not been handed down. Fortunately, two poems about Meng Jiangnv edited by Luo Tianxiang were preserved for us. This is also the only two poems left by Yuan writers that can still be seen at present, which is very precious. During Ye Jiajing's reign in the middle of Ming Dynasty, the two poems were not included in the Collection of Meng Jiangnv compiled by Ma Li, a scholar in Guanzhong, indicating that Shang Zuoshan's poems had been buried in the numerous ancient books at that time and no one knew them.
As the author of Chang 'an People, Luo Tian Xiang was born in the late Jin Dynasty, and his main activities were in the early and middle Yuan Dynasty. When Wang Anxi took office in Jingzhao Road (now xi 'an), he was a Confucian professor in Jingzhao Road and a celebrity in Chang 'an. The king of Anxi is Shang Zuoshan, and Yuan called him "especially good at official script". They are congenial and have a lot of natural contacts. As a poetry friend of Shang Zuoshan, the poems written by Shang Zuoshan in Chang 'an will be exchanged with Luo Tianxiang, and then Luo will be included in the Annals of Chang 'an. Lei Bian Chang An Zhi was compiled by Luo Tianxiang in the second year of Dayuan Yuan Zhen (AD 1296) and published in the fourth year of Dade (AD 1300). The printed version of Yuan Dynasty was lost at the end of Yuan Dynasty, and it is extremely rare. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had not been reprinted for more than 600 years, so the historical materials it recorded, especially those in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, were even unknown and even more rare and precious. In the 1990s, Zhonghua Book Company compiled and published a number of precious ancient books, which gave people a chance to learn about Chang 'an Annals, which is why we can find such precious historical materials today.