He decided to stop and take a look, and was shocked to find that it was the place of which he had dreamed. There he settled, and there he wrote of the discoveries he had made in his lifetime. This extraordinary story is the origin of Shen's famed scientific work, Dream Pool Essays.
一看大吃一驚，竟然就是他夢中所遊之地，於是他就定居下來，並在此寫下他一生的研究發現，這個神奇的故事，就是中國科學史上大名鼎鼎的《夢溪筆談》的來源。