Leader of Flowers

Brief introduction: "Vinegar Gourd" is a long chapter-verse vernacular novel written in the Ming Dynasty, with four volumes and twenty chapters, about 170,000 words. Today there is an engraving by Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, written by Geng Shanfang, in the collection of the Japanese Cabinet Archives. The lower right corner of the inner cover is inscribed "Editor-in-Chief of the Xizihu Fuyu Cult", and the front of the volume is signed with the preface "Inscribed by the Master of Writing in the Mountain House and Drunken in the West Lake Heart and Moon". "Vinegar Gourd" aims to punish women for being jealous, but it is full of karma and weird plots, and has little merit. However, the commercial activities in the late Ming Dynasty described in the book can help people understand the economic conditions of that period. "Naohua Cong" tells the story of Pang Wenying, a son of the Yuanding official family in Yingtian Mansion, Nanjing, and his love, marriage and affairs with five women during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty. There were many talented people, highly educated and rich, beautiful and young, and beauties came in droves and took the initiative to throw themselves into his arms. As a result, he had one wife and four concubines, and they were happy and happy. This is a typical way of writing novels about talented men and beauties in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.