Abstract:

Chen Zilong is the leader of “JI” community in the late Ming Dynasty with outstandingachievements in literature, which has quite an influence on Shanghai’s local culture. Wang Yingzhicompiled The Complete Works of Chen Zilong, and a large number of other relevant supplementary papersof Chen Zilong’s works, so that we can have a more comprehensive understanding of the litterateur.However, the authenticity of his works needs to be taken seriously. Today, the four works signed byChen Zilong, such as With a Friend, The End of the King’s Way, He Ren Ti Xing Qi and Shang Chun, areexamined and identified. It is considered that these four articles are not Chen’s works. Three works in ShiCi Qu Wen Bu Ji, collected in The Complete Works of Chen Zilong are republished works, not the losttexts, known as Jing Yi Xu Kao and two poems of Wang Jiang Mei. When using photocopies of ancientbooks and electronic ancient book libraries, we should change the concept of equating them with theoriginal version, and pay attention to checking the original version, and choosing a rare copy. Strictlyspeaking, the photocopy and electronic versions can be regarded as the new version of the same system asthe originals.