What are the main contents and readings of Water Margin?

"Water Margin" mainly describes the story of 108 heroes gathered in Liangshan Park, Shandong Province at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Shijin, Kowloon was condemned for offending the government. In desperation, he had to go to another place. Later, I met a junior officer named Ruda, and they chatted in the hotel. They learned that the singer's father and daughter were bullied by the local bully Zheng Tu. Lu da gave money, sent his father and daughter back to their hometown and took the initiative to find you. He killed Zheng Tu with three punches. Afterwards, he abandoned his post and fled, and transferred to Wutai Mountain to become a monk. His legal name is "Shen Zhi".

Lu couldn't stand the shackles of Buddhist precepts, so the elders in the temple had to introduce him to Suoguo Temple in Tokyo to look after the vegetable garden. During this period, by chance, he met Lin Chong, the head coach of the 800,000 imperial army in Tokyo.

Gao Yanei, the son of Gao Taiwei, lusted after the beauty of Lin Chong's wife. He framed Lin Chong, framed him for "taking a knife" into Baihutang, sent him to Cangzhou, and attempted to kill Lin Chong on the way. Thanks to the secret escort all the way, he was able to save the day. After Lin Chong was sent to Cangzhou, he killed the enemy in Liangshan.

There is a classic near Liangshan. When it was learned that Liang Zhongshu, the son-in-law of treacherous court official Cai Jing, had sent Yang Zhi to Beijing to escort the "birthday program", Wu Yong set a plan to rally seven other heroes to rob the birthday program and go to Liangshan. Yang Zhi lost his "family planning" and couldn't go back to work, so he joined Lu Shenzhi and occupied Erlong Mountain.

There was a hero named Song Jiang in Yuncheng. He had an affair with his mistress Yan Poxi. Knowing that the robbers from Sung River and Liangshan had come and gone, she threatened them in every way. In a rage, Sung River killed Yan Poxi, fled to Chai Jin Zhuang, a small whirlwind, and met Song Wu. After Song Wu broke up with Song Jiang, he killed a tiger in Jingyanggang and became a hero. Later, when he went to yanggu county as a military attache, he happened to meet his long-lost brother Wu Da.

However, his sister-in-law Pan Jinlian didn't behave like a woman. While Song Wu was away, she colluded with Ximen Qing and poisoned Wu Da. When Song Wu came back, he found out how he felt, killed two people and avenged his brother. Later, he was sent to Mengzhou, met with kindness, got drunk and beat Jiang Menshen, became angry from embarrassment and killed Zhang Dujian's family, and also moved to Erlong Mountain to settle down.

After Song Jiang broke up with Song Wu, he defected to Huarong, the owner of Qingfeng Village stockade, and was soon recalled by his father. He was sent to Jiangzhou because he was reported. One day, he was drunk and accidentally wrote "anti-poetry" and was sentenced to death. Fortunately, the Liangshan brothers robbed the court and saved him. Song Jiang insisted on going home to visit his father, and was repeatedly in danger, and finally went to Liangshan.

Then, after three strikes in Zhujiazhuang, Liangshan gained momentum by sending troops to save Chai Jin. Then beat off Gao Taiwei's three-way troops in a row, met Taohua Mountain, Erlong Mountain and Liangshan Mountain, and returned to Shui Bo.

Then Classical was unfortunately killed by an arrow, and Lu Junyi went to Liangshan after many twists and turns. Liangshan Rebel Army attacked Zengtou City and repelled several imperial attacks. Many of them also took part in Liangshan Juyi. Finally, Liangshan * * * recruited 108 warriors and got the seat of "36 plough, 72 felons".

Facing the situation that Liangshan rebels became more and more brave, the court changed its strategy and sent people to win over. So, under the guidance of Song Jiang and others' compromise thought, Quanliangshan accepted this appeal and was reorganized into the Zhao and Song armies. Rulers adopted the strategy of "impeded" and ordered Liangshan heroes to conquer Liao and Fang La. After years of war, only 27 of 108 heroes remain.

However, even these survivors failed to escape the bad luck that followed. Seeing that Liangshan heroes fought alone, the rulers killed Song Jiang and others shortly after awarding the title: Song Jiang and Lu Junyi were poisoned by medicated wine and mercury respectively, Li Kui jy was dragged to be buried with Song Jiang when he died, and Wu Yong and Hua Rongdao hanged themselves in Liaoerwa.

Thoughts after reading: The Water Margin artistically reflects the whole process of the Sung River Uprising from its occurrence, development to failure in China history, profoundly reveals the social roots of the uprising, enthusiastically praises the uprising heroes' resistance struggle and social ideals, and specifically reveals the internal historical reasons for the failure of the uprising.

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The creative background of Water Margin;

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the story of Liangshan heroes was widely circulated. At that time, Gong Kai, a painter and writer, wrote a preface to the praise of thirty-six people in Song Jiang, saying: The stories of thirty-six people including Song Jiang have spread all over the streets; Painters also write pictures and shadows for them.

The earliest blueprint of Water Margin is the legacy of Xuanhe in Song Dynasty, which focuses on the main characters such as Yang Zhi selling knives, Chao Gai ganging up to grab the birth outline, Song Jiang killing and Lin Chong, jy, and He Lu. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, there were many stories adapted from Water Margin. In Yuan Zaju, the number of Liangshan heroes increased from 36 to 108.

The author of Water Margin is said to be Shi Naian at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, which was polished by Luo Guanzhong. The creators who actually participated spanned hundreds of years from Song Dynasty to the end of Ming Dynasty, including folk storytellers, literati and booksellers. It is a long literary work accumulated from generation to generation.

Brief introduction of the author of Water Margin;

Shi Naian, a writer at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, whose real name was Yan Duan, was originally from Xinghua and Qiantang Baima. He is knowledgeable and talented, proficient in all kinds of classics, poems and songs, astronomy and geography, medical divination and astrology.

At the age of 35, he was a scholar, then abandoned his official position and returned to Li, writing behind closed doors. Together with Luo Guanzhong, who worshipped him as his teacher, he wrote Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Biography of Three Magical Stories in Suiping, collected and sorted out the stories of heroes such as Liang Shanbo and Song Jiang, and finally wrote The Water Margin. About his life, due to the lack of historical materials, there are different opinions, and even the existence of this person is controversial.

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