Xin Deyong said solar terms.

According to China Idiom Dictionary, "Yan Guan" in Yan Guan unofficial history refers to a small official in ancient times, whose duty is to collect gossip and custom stories for the emperor to read. Unofficial history recorded many anecdotes privately, and later called the novel unofficial history "unofficial history".

Xin Deyong made textual research and comparison between Sima Qian's Historical Records and Zhao Zhengshu, a bamboo book of the Western Han Dynasty that Peking University entered Tibet several years ago. He thinks Historical Records is reliable and Zhao Zhengshu is a novel. He emphasized the importance of official history and how unreliable unofficial history was. Although the official history is flawed, we should believe in it if we want to form a more reliable understanding of the ancient history of China.

However, on the other hand, in the ancient society of China, unofficial history, popular novels, operas, storytelling and other folk arts deeply influenced the broad masses of the lower classes in China. According to the research of Wang Xuetai, a famous scholar and research institute of China Academy of Social Sciences, there is a sense of wandering in the soul of China people, and the formation of the sense of wandering is closely related to the spread and influence of folk arts such as unofficial history, popular novels, operas and storytelling. Wang Xuetai thinks:

"Tramps don't believe in their future, don't believe in principles, and only believe in the interests of getting their hands on them. Once the pursuit of short-sighted goals becomes a habit, it will make everything instrumental. As long as it can achieve its short-sighted goal, tramps will do it. The tramp has lived in poverty for a long time, which makes him believe that a good thing can be obtained through simple methods, and extremism is a convenient way. " "Vagrant consciousness has a strong anti-social, destructive, cliques, doing things by hook or by crook, being cruel, being a mother with milk, and so on. China people have wandering consciousness in their souls.

Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, were both vagrants and succeeded in becoming emperors. Their wandering consciousness is also the most obvious, just as Huang Zongxi said, "People who later became kings are not, thinking that all the interests of the world come from me, so I take all the interests of the world for myself and give people all the harm of the world, which is also impossible; Make everyone in the world dare not be selfish, dare not be selfish, and regard my private affairs as the grand duke of the world. Shame at the beginning, long and peaceful, regard the world as a great cause, and future generations will enjoy it forever; Emperor Han Gaodi said that "the weight of one industry is greater than that of other industries", and his feelings of profit-seeking are beyond words. There's nothing else in it. The ancients took the world as the master and the monarch as the guest of honor. Where the monarch lives in the world, he works for the world. "

If China people's wandering consciousness was born under the Qin system, then unofficial history and popular novels born under the Qin system are natural products. Liangshan heroes in the water margin are engaged in "killing and setting fire". In recent years, many scholars' research confirmed that the Boxer Rebellion was invited by God, and many of them came from characters in China's traditional dramas. No matter Liangshan hero or Boxer, there is a deep sense of wandering. In Jin Yong's martial arts novels, Wei Xiaobao is in China, and Duke Lushan is the most typical tramp. He lives in brothels and palaces, which are the most hypocritical and treacherous places in the world.

Wei Xiaobao "experienced" in these two places, and his cleverness and cunning have already far surpassed that of ordinary adults. It can be said that Ah Q and Wei Xiaobao are two mirrors of China people. Although he didn't become emperor, Wei Xiaobao realized the highest ideal of the prodigal son to a certain extent, with fame and fortune, a beautiful wife and concubine, and a free life without losing Jianghu morality and the trust of friends.