Currently there is really no actual proof that the story of Tong Pak Fu pointing at Qiu Xiang is real in history, if it is a real historical event, I'm afraid that it has long been verified. But things are always no empty cave, just like the ancients like to write poems based on some new things, Tang Pak Fu points to this piece of good news may also be based on evidence. On the history of whether there is Tong Pak Fu and Qiuxiang these two people we are worth speculating about.
We can analyze, Tong Pak Fu point Qiu Xiang this story was originally the Ming Dynasty books left behind by the people know, so we from the Ming Dynasty to trace the story. In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, there is a book in which this story has long been written, and at that time the main character in the story is not Tong Pak Fu, but a talented man named Chen Yuanchao, and the Chen Gongzi in the book, whether it is Cai Hua or character is very similar to Tong Pak Fu, it can be said that it is the prototype of Tong Pak Fu. These come from the book of Ming Dynasty notebook novelist Wang Tongkai
But in that period of the Ming Dynasty, there was indeed a Suzhou talent named Chen Yuanchao, and there was also a woman named Qiu Xiang in the same era. But the difference is that this woman was not a servant girl of an official family, but a famous prostitute in the city of Suzhou. So two people did exist in the same period. Only Chen Yuanchao was the prototype of Tong Pak Fu, and Qiu Xiang was not a servant girl of a big family as depicted in the book. And according to the situation at that time, Chou-heung was 20 years older than Chen Yuan-chao, so if the real "Pak Fu" met the real Chou-heung, he would probably just pass by. Only at that time, the two were quite famous, was recorded in the novels of future generations, written into a good story, so the story of Tang Pak Fu point Qiu Xiang is just a novel.