Book format: mobi
Douban score: 9.5 points
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Content introduction:
The Water Margin is one of China's four classical novels. It is a chapter-by-chapter novel with the Sung River Uprising as the main story background at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it belongs to a heroic legend in genre. The author or editor is generally regarded as Shi Naian, and most of the existing periodicals have one or two people, Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong.
By describing the grand story that Shui Bo, a Liangshan hero, resisted oppression, grew up to be accepted by the Song Dynasty, and finally perished after acceptance, the book artistically reflected the whole process of the Sung River Uprising in the history of China, profoundly revealed the social roots of the Uprising, enthusiastically praised the uprising hero's resistance struggle and social ideal, and specifically revealed the internal historical reasons for the failure of the Uprising.
After the publication of Water Margin, it had a great impact on the society and became a model of China's novel creation in later generations. The Water Margin is one of the earliest Zhang Hui vernacular novels in the history of China, which is widely circulated and well known. At the same time, it is also one of the works with epic characteristics in China literature, which has a far-reaching impact on narrative literature in China and even East Asia.