How many different versions of Water Margin are there?

An unabridged version/book

(1) 100 copies, there are about four kinds.

A biography of loyalty and righteousness, with a volume of 100 and a chapter of 100, was published in 17 places during the Wanli period of the Ming dynasty, preceded by a preface to the history of foreign affairs.

B Li Zhuowu's Criticism on the Loyalty and Righteousness of the Water Margin, with a total of 100 volume 100 chapter, was published by Rong Yutang in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty. Li Zhi's Preface and Geng Xuzhong's Xia Lin Hu's Sun Pu's Book are in front, followed by Advantages and Disadvantages of Water Margin, Narrative Criticism of Water Margin and Re-discussion.

C. Zhong Jingbo's On the Loyalty and Righteousness of the Water Margin, with volume 100 and chapter 100, was published by the Sizhi Museum in the late Ming Dynasty, and there was also Jiqingtang, which was preceded by Zhong Xing's preface and Water Margin.

D. One hundred chapters of The Legend of the Loyalty and Righteousness of the Water Margin, published in the late Ming Dynasty, was preceded by the Preface of the Great Cleansing. There is also a mustard seed garden, in which everything is the same.

(2) One hundred and twenty copies

During Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, Yuan wrote a total of 120 articles. Li Zhi's Preface is in front, followed by Ding Yang's Preface, Song Bamboo Slips, Xuanhe Legacy and Fa Fan. And Yu Yu Tang Ben and Bao Han Reuben, all the same.

(3) Seventy copies

The fifth book, The Water Margin of Shi Naian, has seventy-five volumes and seventy chapters. In the late Ming Dynasty, Huatang published three prefaces by Jin Shengtan, one prefaces by Jin Shengtan forged by Shi Naian, and several books on Reading the Fifth Talented Man.

1. After many generations of scholars' research, Baihui was the earliest version, and Baihui "added" the story of Wang Qing's conquest on the basis of Baihui's version, thus integrating the four martial arts of "Liao, Wang Qing and Fang La" wooed by Sung River Group.

2. It is generally believed that the inserted twenty times are mediocre in art and absurd in time sequence, which is despised by experts. But ordinary people are often greedy for perfection. There are 120 versions and they will never buy a hundred versions. Reading stories for a few days is more addictive. Although it is really mediocre compared with other parts of the book, who can ask a book to be wonderful everywhere? Just like who can ask every capital in a song disc to be a wonderful song.

What's wrong with buying a color TV and getting a black and white one? Moreover, the mediocrity of recruiting four bandits also shows that once a hero is recruited, he loses his wonderful life. During the "Comment on the Water Margin" movement during the Cultural Revolution, all the people in China once again popularized the Water Margin. At that time, most people read 120, and the cover was printed with "The Biography of the Water Margin".

4. Especially for Kong, who was still in primary school at that time, I really don't think the collection and Wang Qing part are so mediocre and bad. Compared with the war literature that has been fighting against the circle, I think it is still very clever.