Chou-heung, according to legend, is the wife of Tang Bohu, the "four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River".

Fold Tang Bohu to make autumn fragrance.

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's prototype was Lin Nuer, a prostitute in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty. She is a sophomore and a teenager than Tang Bohu. Hua Taishi is from Wuxi, 27 years younger than Tang Bohu. Therefore, Tang Bohu and San Xiao divorced. Tang Bohu is a poor scholar. "In the reflection room, the bottle was broken, and there were many things besides clothes and shoes" (Tang Yin's Book with Wen Zhiming). He sells paintings for a living, and it is still difficult to maintain his life. How can he afford eight or nine wives? In fact, Tang Yin didn't take a concubine to marry a little girl. His original wife died of illness, and the second wife thought that Tang Bohu had no hope of becoming an official. The last confidante was Shen nine niang, and the rumor among the people was the ninth wife. In addition, another reason for misinformation is the different interpretation of the word "romance". Then how did the story of Tang Bohu lighting Chou-heung spread? Professor Sun once said in Lecture Room that the prototype of the story "Lighting Chou-heung" first appeared in the note novels of the Ming Dynasty, and the description of the story in Er Tan, a novelist of the Ming Dynasty, was basically consistent with what we now know as "Lighting Chou-heung". It is generally believed that Chen, a gifted scholar in Suzhou, is bohemian. Once, he and his friends went to Tiger Hill to play and met Chou-heung unexpectedly. Chou-heung smiled at Chen Gongzi. In fact, he just smiled, and Chen Gongzi couldn't stand it. He sent someone to make an unannounced visit to Chou-heung. So, Chen Gongzi disguised himself and went to the official's son to be a childe's companion. Soon, Chen felt that the time had come, because he found that his two sons could not live without him and lied about going home to get married. The second son said, there are so many handmaids in your house, you can pick them at will. Chen Gongzi said, in this case, respect is better than obedience, so I'll order Chou-heung. Chen Gongzi got his wish and got married. This is caused by a love story, a joke and a complex. In the hands of Feng Menglong, a novelist in the late Ming Dynasty, it became a smiling marriage of Tang Jieyuan. One of the oldest and simplest stories developed from "a smile" to "San Xiao", and the plot became more complicated.