Errors in Interpretations of Some Entries concerning SHI Nai-an in An Ocean of Words

There are some mistakes or flaws in the interpretation of some entries concerning “SHI Nai-an” in the 6 ^th–edition An Ocean of Words. The first one is that the work A Book of A Hundred Rivers by GAO Ru in the mid Ming Dynasty is misinterpreted as the one by GAO in the early Ming Dynasty. The second is that the investigation concerning SHI Nai-an's life is neglected only some fragments of folk catalogues and notes are adopted. What is more, some self-supporting quotations are made to get the false conclusion that SHI was born in Qiantang. The third is that An Ocean of Words wrongly holds doubt toward the view “A Collection of Notes in Shaoshishan Studio by HU Ying-lin in late Ming Dynasty took LUO Ben(Guan-zhong)as the pupil of SHI”. The fourth is that the citation from Continued Annals of Xinghua County that WANG Dao-sheng of Ming Dynasty wrote SHI Nai-an's Epigraph is not true. Accordingly, this paper has made some corrections of such mistakes in an attempt to be served as the reference for the future edition of the great work.