申報
Yang Yin, the brother-in-law of the prominent writer Wang Tao, found the incomplete manuscript of the work at a stall selling second-hand books. He gave the four parts to Wang, who was in charge of the Shanghai newspaper "Shen Bao". Wang published the manuscript in letterpress in 1877 and it became an instant bestseller. The "Fourth Record" was written in 1808, so the book was believed to be finished after that. Based on the index, we can tell that the fifth record was to be called "A History of Life at Chungshan" and the sixth was to be called "The Way of Living". Later, it was claimed that these fifth and sixth parts had been found at another bookstall, but the manuscripts were declared fraudulent by scholars.