Which version is better?

I hope my answer will satisfy you, and thank you for adopting the version study of Water Margin. Chapter 15 of Lu Xun's A Brief History of Chinese Novels: Stories of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties introduces four important versions of The Water Margin, pointing out that Jin Shengtan's claim that "the seventy volumes of the Water Margin are ancient books in the Mandarin Hall" is deceptive, but in fact, he deleted one hundred copies. This corrected Hu Shi's misunderstanding of Jin Shengtan. In addition, according to the details of the characters and the description density, he also divided Water Margin into simplified version and complex version, and thought that the 150 simplified version was "close to" the original version of Water Margin, and its "achievement was almost ahead of the complex version". Hu Shi has made great efforts in studying the version of Water Margin. The research versions of textual research on the Water Margin and Biography of the Water Margin both think that there was no Biography of the Water Margin in Yuan Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, The Original Hundred Water Margin appeared. During Hongzhi and Zhengde periods, there were seventy manuscripts of Water Margin, which were reconstructed from the original hundred manuscripts and were roughly the same as later Jin Shengtan's manuscripts. During the Jiajing period, Guo Xun carved one hundred copies of Water Margin, which was probably modified by seventy copies. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Yang and Yuan edited the Water Margin 120, and adopted 100, adding "Zheng" and "Zheng Wangqing"; It was not until Jin Shengtan that seventy-one books appeared; After the adoption of the gold edition, other editions became scarce, so the bookstore took out the second half of the original 100 copies and printed them into a single book, named "Zhengsi Kou". Later, Hu Shi made a preface to "One hundred and twenty loyalty and loyalty among the Water Margin". Considering the opinions of Lu Xun and others, he slightly revised the above statement. He believed that Jin Shengtan's original work was abridged from Li Zhuowu's Hundred Stories, and admitted that Zhengsikou was extracted from the abridged Fifteen Stories and the 124 Stories of Fujian Zhongfangjia. As for the order of simplified edition and complex edition, Hu Shi thinks that "the reasons given by Mr. Lu Xun are quite unconvincing". Naturally, he thinks complexity comes first. Zheng Zhenduo's Water Margin studies the version evolution of Water Margin, which has been mentioned above. This paper introduces his slightly modified version evolution diagram: Southern Song Dynasty, the earliest ancestor → (? Xuanhe's Legacy (abridged edition) → Yuan Shi Naian → Yuan Ming Luo Guanzhong (20 volumes) → Jiajing Guo Xun (? ) adaptation and update (one hundred times) → Yu Wanli xiangdou update encyclopedia (twenty-four volumes and one hundred and twenty times? The book compiled by the Apocalypse between Chongzhen and Yang (120)-The book deleted by Shunzhi Jin (70)-The Dragon and the Water Margin. Today, it seems that the "ancestral edition", "abridged edition" and "Shi Naian edition" of the Yuan Dynasty are all inaccurate. As for Luo Guanzhong at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, some people speculate that this is the origin of this version of Water Margin. However, he said, "Guo Xun retouched and adapted Luo Shuzhong in Jiajing, which was quite different from its original appearance" and "added a section on Liao Dynasty, and * * * responded a hundred times"; He also said that "Yu Xiangdou took the original books and periodicals of Roche in Wanli, added Liao Festival of Guo Jia and Wang Qing Festival of himself", and so on. These statements are still very insightful. Sun Kai's Textual Research on the Old Books of the Water Margin (Book Quarterly, No.4, 194 1, collected by Cangzhou Library, Zhonghua Book Company, 1965 edition) thinks that the complicated books of the Water Margin take precedence over the simplified books. He said: "From the beginning, it goes without saying that there are several books about the Water Margin. First of all, it has a detailed narrative, and its performance is about recruiting Liao instead of Wang Qing. Today, I saw 100 replies. There is a short sentence, that is, from this paragraph, it shows that Wang Qing has joined the ranks of Liao. I want to watch 15 times 100 times today. One is to add 20 times to the hundred copies. Although this twenty-back edition is based on the fifteen-back edition of Rihu Wangqing, it is one hundred and twenty times of the published edition of Yuan Dynasty. One is to delete the final edition, that is, seventy copies of Jin Shengtan. " Of these four books, a hundred should be regarded as recent. He also speculated that the old version of Water Margin should be a thorn, and Water Margin, a thorn, should be compiled by the Southern Bookstore at the end of Yuan Dynasty. This can be seen from the example of the mixed version of Water Margin and Wu Yu Yu Yue. However, he added: "The 100 Water Margin published today is not a pure translation of the literature of the Fang Dynasty, nor is it a pure northern literature; The original version of his book can't be said to be written by northerners living in the south, nor can it be said to be written by southerners. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, it has been handed down by Jiangnan Bookstore. Its final version was written at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. " The original version of Yi Ci is a scattered version, which seems to be after and before the announcement. What is published today is the 100-fold edition of Water Margin. Guo Xun published it when Ming Jiajing was self-evident. "These views have been accepted by later generations to varying degrees. Zhao's Outlaws of the Water Margin (published in China Monthly, No.73, 1948) strongly agrees with Sun Kai's above viewpoint, and further points out: "In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Water Margin was widely circulated. "As for the Venus version of the Water Margin, Zhao Wen thinks that God sighed" Entrusting an orphan for restructuring "and explained the nightmare added at the end, saying:" He used Ji Kang to allude to Zhang Shuye, because Ji Kang's word is Zhang Shuye's name, while Zhang Shuye's word is Zhong Zhong, and his first word is Ji Kang's surname. "Historically, Zhang Shuye captured his deputy thief, so he let Lu Junyi dream, not sung river dream. This view is novel and appropriate. From the founding of the People's Republic of China to the fifties and sixties, the research on the version of Water Margin mainly involved the relationship between the simplified version and the traditional version, as well as the issue of the rheological pen of the version of Water Margin. At that time, there were three main views on the sequence of simplified version and duplicate version. First of all, the simplified version precedes the complex version. The third chapter of He Xin's "Water Margin Edition" describes the numerous copies, simplified copies, incomplete copies and lost copies of the Water Margin. It is inferred that the back of the 15 simplified version is clumsy and childish. Everyone in the book uses the word "day", and several words in the book are inversely proportional to the numerous copies. Second, the simplified version comes from the complex version. In the Water Margin written by Zheng Zhenduo in the 1930s, he thought that 15 back to Fujian was originally written by Luo Guanzhong. However, in 1954, he revised his previous view in the preface to The Legend of the Water Margin published by People's Literature Publishing House. He thought that Fujian Bamboo Slips came from Hundred Books published by Guo Xun, but they "greatly abridged the original text of Hundred Books and added it to the story of Ping and Wang Qing, which became the third so-called" simplified and complicated ". Yan Dunyi's Outlaws of the Marsh holds that the simplified version and the duplicate version belong to two different systems in principle, and it is really difficult to determine whether the simplified version was deleted by the complex or polished by the simplified version. Similarities and differences between simplified version and traditional version. The differences between He Xin's simplified version and its duplicate in Chapter 4 of A Study of Water Margin, this paper carefully compares the simplified version of 15 with the reply version of 100 and 120, and points out their differences in numbers, titles, heroes' names, plots and words, which is quite helpful to understand the similarities and differences between the simplified version and the duplicate version. On the evolution of editions. He Xin's The Water Margin, the fifth chapter of The Water Margin, thinks that the three paragraphs of The Water Margin are inherent in Roche and are not added by later generations. According to his research, the evolution of Water Margin can be simply explained as follows: Roche originally (15 times? ) → Complete Biography of Ancient Books (120 volumes) → Original Hundred Books (signed by Luo Guanzhong) → Jiajing Guo Xun revised and edited The Original Hundred Books → Wanli Jianyang Shujia abridged The Complete Biography of Ancient Books, making it one hundred and fifty volumes (prefaced by Xiong Fei) or one hundred volumes → Rong and Tang published one hundred volumes thirty years after Wanli. Absorb and process the story of tian hu and Wang Qing) → Jin Shengtan's revised edition in the last years of Chongzhen (seventy times) → Water Margin after Qing Dynasty (that is, Zheng Sikou, from the second half of one hundred and fifty books). Yan Dunyi's "Water Margin" also made a detailed investigation of various versions of "Water Margin", and thought that there were few records about "Water Margin" in the early Ming Dynasty, and only after the publication of Guo Xun appeared in the middle of Ming Dynasty did a variety of publications prevail. Before the publication appeared, Liao Yuanzheng's story had been expanded to 108 people. Guo Xun's printed edition is the earliest known book, which seems to be a complex system. After Guo Ben and before Baihui Ben continued to be published, Fujian booksellers carved some periodicals belonging to Jian system and began to supplement them for He Wang Qing. So Ding Yang read one hundred and twenty books and absorbed the fields and kings of Fujian. These versions can be divided into three different systems: complex, simple and comprehensive. Since 1980s, the debate about which comes first, the traditional version and the simplified version of Water Margin, has intensified. To sum up, there are mainly the following statements: one is "from simple to complex". Nie Gannu's On the Bamboo Slips of Numerous Books in the Water Margin (China Literature and History Series 1980, No.2) holds that "the bamboo slips come first, the numerous books come last, and the numerous books are processed from the bamboo slips", and points out that "the numerous books come from the bamboo slips, which does not mean that the old hundred books come from one of the existing bamboo slips. The simplified version on which many manuscripts are processed can be said to be gone now, or it can be said that it has not been discovered. That kind of bamboo slips should be the ancestor or ancestor of all existing bamboo slips before Jiajing, and higher than them. " Liu Cunren's "The Authenticity of Luo Guanzhong's Historical Novels" (see Research on China's Ancient Novels, edited by Liu Shide, Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, version 1983) thinks that 105 is a representative of the simplified version, and suspects that there are other simplified versions of 100 that tian hu and Wang Qing have not added before. He Manzi's "On the Source and Author of the Bamboo Slips (Water Margin) from the Number of Speakers in Song and Yuan Dynasties" (China Literature and History Series 1982 No.4) also holds that "as far as books with systematic and complete water margin stories are concerned, the bamboo slips are in the front and the numerous books are in the back." One is the "simplification" theory. Wang Genlin's On the Relationship between Replica and Simplified Edition (China Literature and History Series 1980, No.2) compares the earliest existing replica "Chen Xu Tian Wai" (Baihui Edition for short) with the earliest existing simplified edition "Jing Ben" (Comment on Lin Ben for short). Because of the abridgement and shoddy workmanship, many traces in the book are born out of many books. The article also points out that the simplified version of 105 is later than the book Forest, so it should not be used as a basis to demonstrate the sequential relationship between the duplicate and the simplified version. Zhang Guoguang's "Re-discussion on the popularity of simplified versions since Lu Xun" (see his "Study on the Water Margin and Jin Shengtan", Zhongzhou Calligraphy and Painting Society, 198 1 edition) traces back to the origin and basic arguments of the two schools, namely, the theory of "from simplicity to complexity" and "simplifying by deleting complexity". Fu Longji's On the Relationship between (Water Margin) Bamboo Slips and Traditional Books (No.5 Series of Water Margin Competition) compares Lin Ping with Preface of Foreign Minister Tiandu and Rong Yu Tang Ben, and thinks that Lin Ping is a revision, merger and' supplement of many books in Lun Shi written by Baihui (adding a heavenly king) Liu Shide. One is the theory that "simplicity and complexity evolve with each other". Ouyang Jian's "New Proof of the Evolution Process of the Simplified Edition and the Traditional Edition" (15 Literature and History Series, 1982) holds that "only from a dialectical point of view, the relationship between different versions of Water Margin is regarded as a closely related and mutually evolving development process, and the evolution of versions is more in line with reality. In his view, the process of mutual evolution between the simplified version and the duplicate version of Water Margin can be roughly divided into three stages: the first stage, from the simplified version of "having fields and kings without Liao countries" to the duplicate version of "going to fields and having kings and adding Liao countries"; The second stage. Abridged from the traditional version of Liao country without fields and kings to the simplified version of Liao country without fields and kings; In the third stage, before and after the resumption of Tim Tian and Tim Wang, a simplified version of "Tim Lao Honda and Tim Wang" appeared. One is the theory that it is difficult to determine the order of the traditional Chinese version and the simplified Chinese version. Ma Youyuan's "Opinions on Calling for the Study of Shortcut Edition of Water Margin" (the third in the Water Margin Contention Series) holds that no one is qualified to draw a conclusion about the revision, publication and change of the research version. Before reading all the existing important books and comparing them in detail. In the article "The Plot and Character Arrangement after the Rank of Water Margin" (Hong Kong Ming Pao Monthly 1985 No.6), he also said: "Even if Wang Qing is later than hundreds of books including the top 70, Zhao 'an, Liao and Fang La, it does not mean that all the parts in the simplified version are later than the traditional version." In addition, scholars also discussed whether the ancestor of the water margin and Jin Shengtan cut the water margin. On the ancestor of the water margin. Zhang Guoguang's "The Origin of the Outlaws of the Marsh" (Jianghan ForumNo. 1982No. 1) holds that the Outlaws of the Marsh published by Guo Xun in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty is the ancestor of various versions of Outlaws of the Marsh. Li Qian's textual research on the loyalty story in Kyoto (No.1 in Ming and Qing novels series) holds that the loyalty story in Kyoto is the only ancestor in various versions of Water Margin. Zhu Qing and Li Yong-zuo's A New Discussion on the Ancestral Edition of Water Margin and Guo Wuding's Edition (Wen Chuan No.5, 1997) hold that the loyal and righteous Water Margin recorded by Shi Naian and compiled by Luo Guanzhong in Hundred Rivers Annals of Ming Dynasty are all known versions of Ming Dynasty. Zhou Jizhong's "Hundred Books of Rong Yutang Carving Water Margin Should Be the Ancestor of Water Margin" (Journal of Guizhou Normal University, No.2, 1998) thinks that Rong Yutang is the book that can best reflect the true colors under the condition that Guo Xun's carving water margin is incomplete at present. About whether Jin Shengtan cut the water margin. Jin Shengtan cut the water margin to seventy, which is almost conclusive in academic circles, but some scholars disagree. Wang Jue's "The Mystery of Water Margin Version" (Journal of Guyuan Teachers College, No.4, 1996) thinks that seventy copies cannot be regarded as the same thing as Jin Shengtan's fake ancient books, and there were indeed seventy copies before Jin Shengtan. Zhou Ling questioned Jin Shengtan's Theory of Waist Cutting (Outlaws of the Marsh) (literature review,No. 1998,No. 1 period), and thought that "waist cutting is the basis of the theory of' determination', which is all empty talk", but Jin Shengtan did not cut the water margin, and the Water Margin he corrected was indeed seventy. In this regard, Wang Qizhou's "Jin Shengtan Wais the Water Margin"-A Discussion with Comrade Zhou Ling (Jianghan Forum, No.8, 1998) points out that the evidence used by Zhou Ling to deny the "waist-cutting" theory is not new, and the credibility of these materials is low, and his understanding of the materials is also problematic, which cannot overturn the "waist-cutting" theory. Cui's "Seeing the Waist Cut from the Golden Edition (Water Margin)" (Qilu Academic Journal, No.5, 2000) looks for evidence from Jin Shengtan's comments on the inside of the water margin, which proves that Jin really cut the waist of the water margin.