The term "black shop" was first used in various novels. There are records about various black shops in many historical books of the Song Dynasty. The reason why there are so many black shops in the Song Dynasty is that the population is too mobile and the government cannot effectively manage them.

There are many records about black shops in the literature of the Song Dynasty, among which the most famous black shops are the Shizipo Hotel operated by Sun Erniang, an evil woman in Mengzhou Road. In the 27th chapter of The Water Margin, it is said that the Cross Slope Hotel on Mengzhou Road seems to be an inn for catering and dining during the day, but in fact it is a black shop specializing in robbing merchants, killing people and selling human flesh buns at night.

But there are all kinds of black shops in the historical records of the Song Dynasty. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Peng Cheng wrote a story about a black shop, saying that some hotels were indeed run by people with criminal records. There is a respected monk in the south of Jingnan. He walks very slowly and is assisted by two waiters. Not only does he take small steps, but he also has to take a few breaths before he can take a step. Everyone addressed him as? Slow monk? . On the night of the Lantern Festival one year, the government caught a thief who raped a woman over the wall, took off his mask and found that the man turned out to be a respected slow-moving monk, which made everyone sigh. Later, after the slow monk was punished, he saved his hair and returned to vulgarity. Soon he opened a shop in the market and started a business. What is very different from before is that he actually walked like the wind. In view of this, more and more people use opening a shop as a cover to run amok.

According to historical records, folk hotels were widely established in the Song Dynasty, and there were many hotels in both cities and towns. According to Zhou Bida's Wen Zhong Ji in the Southern Song Dynasty, he met him in Lixian Town, Jiangshan County, Quzhou on his way back to his hometown of Luling, Jizhou? There are many shops on the way? . In Song Dynasty, the population moved a lot, and officials, vendors and other people from all walks of life were on the road, so they were very worried about their personal safety, and this kind of story about black shops spread more and more widely, so it is natural to describe this fragment of black shops in literary works.