The first record of the story of Liang Shan-po and Chu Ying-t'ai is a sentence that appears in the book Shih-ssu tao ssufan chih, written in 684, during the T'ang dynasty (618--907): "The virtuous woman Chu Ying-t'ai was buried together with Liang Shan-po."
梁山伯和祝英台的故事，最初的記載只有一句話。那是在唐中宗時梁載言的「十四道四蕃志」中提到的：「義婦祝英台與梁山伯同塚。」