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Yan Shui San Ren is an very active novelist at the literary world at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty.The novel that he compiled has "Hou Qi Guo Yue Tian Yan Yi""Zhen Zhu Bo","Mei Ren Shu","He Pu Zhu""Yuan Yang Pei", "Meng Yue Lou Qing Shi", "Sai Hua Ling", "Tao Hua Ying", "Chun Deng Nao", "Yu Zhi Ji Xiao Zhuan", "San Guo Zhi Zhuan",etc. more than ten parts.This text is on the basis of collecting various kinds of firsthand information and forefathers' academic achievement extensively, and has carried on overall analysis to Yan Shui San Ren's true identity, works edition, thought content and artistic achievement. It proved Xu Zhen of Jiaxing of Zhejiang is Yan Shui San Ren, he was born in before and after the 34th year of the Wanli reign period of the Ming Dynasty (1606 ), still alive by the 18th year of Kangxi (1679 ), and proceeded with interior card and roughly sketched the contours of his course of life. In edition , the text proved "Mei Ren Shu" was published early more than "Nv Cai Zi Shu", "Hou Qi Guo Yue Tian Yan Yi" was not that he was original, but he had work changed to this book definitely; "Zhen Zhu Bo" should be succeeded in the period of Shunzhi. In content, the text analyses the impact of the changes of the times and collision of culture on Yan Shui San Ren while in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and illustrates Yan Shui San Ren's think and choose independently thoroughly idea of women, marriage , fame and gain, etc. and understands the inner link between his thought and novel content emphatically. In artistic respect, it analyses after the one as gifted scholar and beautiful woman novel entering bottlenecking because of its stereotyped set pattern and personage dealing in generality, Yan Shui San Ren's new try carried on at subject matter, Describes his achievement in personage's image-building, points out some artistic defects existing in his works at the same time.