Abstract Shi Yisheng was a petty official in the Song Dynasty and was arrested for jonning the peasant uprising. Later he escaped to and secured an official position in the Jin Dynasty. He once served as an envoy to the Southern Song royal court to observe the Spring Festival cenemony and was suspected of leaking the secret that the Jin armed force would invade. This event evoked wide-ranging attentions in the Southern Song society. Records of Shi Yisheng and his deeds were inconsistent in historical writings and men-of-letters' diaries,with the latter having obvious fabrications. These fabricated plots reflected the Southern Song literati and officialdom's varying comments on Shi's character and morals and reactions to Shi Yisheng incident of ethics in the Southern Song society.
ZOU Chun-Xiu. Shi Yisheng's Leaking Secret and its Contradictory Remarks Among Southern Song Literati and Officialdom[J]. Journal of Jiangsu University(Social Science Editi, 2010, 12(3): 29-34.