As early as Jiajing or Wanli in Ming Dynasty, Xiang recorded the story with Chou-heung in his note Miscellaneous Notes on Banana Window. Later, the story about Tang Bohu and Chou-heung in Zhou Xuanyong's Lin Jing Miscellanies was more detailed, which basically formed the embryonic form of "San Xiao". At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Feng Menglong compiled a widely circulated Book of Warning with the title of The Marriage of Tang Jieyuan Xiao Yi. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there appeared such zaju as Smile Before Flowers written by Meng Shunqing and Flower Boat Edge written by a single person for one month, which made them enter thousands of households in the form of stage performances. As a matter of fact, according to the notes such as Tea Guest Talk and Ear Talk, there was indeed a matter of selling oneself into slavery in the history of the Ming Dynasty, but this was a scholar named Chen, and a busybody attached it to his name. According to historians' research, Chou-heung was a prostitute named Lin Nuer in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty, who was 20 years older than Tang Bohu. Hua Taishi is from Wuxi, 27 years younger than Tang Bohu. Therefore, Tang Bohu and "San Xiao" broke away from marriage.