In order to escape the war, Shi Naian moved here to live in seclusion and wrote Water Margin. According to folklore, Zhang Shicheng rose up against Yuan, called the prince of Wu to Pingjiang (Suzhou) and hired him as a military adviser. Later, Zhang Shicheng reduced his salary to Yuan, refused to persuade him, and left his post to sit in Torinji, Zhutang, Jiangyin. Zhu Yuanzhang sent troops to besiege Pingjiang and the war spread to Jiangyin. Shi Naian remembered that Gu Ting, a friend of Songjiang Tongzhi and Jiaxing Daotongzhi, was from Xinghua. There is a remote place, surrounded by water, with inconvenient transportation. There has always been a saying that "Zhaoyang (Xinghua alias) has been good at avoiding soldiers since ancient times", so I specially sent someone to send Gu Ting a letter with a poem:
Wandering around the world, I found a good home in Yangshan (referring to Zhaoyang, improvisation).
May grass plant many kinds of trees, but don't teach plums to bear fruit like melons. (At that time, the folk song: "Li Sheng cucumber, the people are homeless")
After reading the letter, Gu Ting immediately wrote back to Shi Naian, welcoming him to take refuge in Xinghua. The letter also answered a poem:
You came from Jiangnan to pay attention and send a smile to your old colleagues.
This is not heaven. Where can Taoyuan avoid Qin?
Describe Liangshan 108 incisively and vividly.
After receiving the letter, Shi Naian left his eldest brother Yan Ming in Suzhou, took his second wife Shen Shi, his second brother Chae Yeon and his master Luo Guanzhong, braved the strong wind, crossed the Jiangbei River, stayed at Gu Ting's home in Xinghua first, and then, with the help of Gu Ting, bought land and real estate at Baima Farm, a sparsely populated seaside east of Xinghua, and lived in seclusion with the water margin. Shi Naian met many farmers and salt people.
Living materials: There is little information about Shi Naian's life story, and some records collected are quite contradictory. Since the 1920s, some related materials have been found in Xinghua, Dafeng and other places in Jiangsu Province, such as Shi's genealogy and Shi's genealogy. In addition, supplement 13 of Xinghua County Records contains 65,438+0 biographies of Shi Naian, and supplement 14 contains 65,440 epitaphs of Shi Naian written by Wang Daosheng in the early Ming Dynasty.
One hundred and eight will refer to one hundred and eight leaders in Water Margin, one of the four classical novels, which consists of thirty-six stars of the highest day and seventy-two stars of the earth. This 108 is a classic group portrait in the history of China literature, with different personalities, strengths and endings. His novel Water Margin is also one of the novels with the most characters.
Water Margin 108 will be arranged according to the highest solar star of 36 stars and the lowest terrestrial star of 72 stars, among which the highest solar star and terrestrial star are described in the beginning of Chapter 2 of Water Margin, and Hong's private visit to Jiuwenlong Village of Yan 'an House is listed in Chapter 71 of Astronomical Water Margin, Seating of Heroes of Loyalty Hall.