"Water Margin" is a very interesting novel, the author Shi Nai'an portrayed the characters in the book vividly, and the image of The 108 Generals of Liangshan is even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, the same is a good man in Liangshan, and the difference between different good men is still very big. For example, when mentioning the "flower monk" Lu Zhishen, everyone will praise him as a "really good man"; and mentioning "Timely Rain" Song Jiang, although he is the leader of Liangshan, most people mention this character, I am afraid that they will mutter "real villain" in their hearts.
However, although the character of Song Jiang is portrayed very disgustingly, from the background of the writing of "Water Margin", Liangshan is really inseparable from the existence of Song Jiang. If there is no Song Jiang, how can Liangshan develop and grow? At the very least, Qin Ming, Lu Junyi, Zhu Tong, and other backbone figures on Liangshan certainly did not have to go to the grass to become a coward. Of course, Song Jiang's most important role was to lead Liangshan to surrender to the imperial court. Whether it is from the development of the plot or the safety of the author Shi Nai'an himself, it is necessary to create characters such as Song Jiang.
The good men of Liangshan, to put it bluntly, are a hodgepodge of villains, gamblers, and robbers, and the real good men can be said to be very few. In terms of personality, except for those good men who ranked low in the one hundred and eight generals, most of the good men in Liangshan were actually evil people, except for the fact that there was too little ink on the character story to determine personal character. The really good man, in addition to the above-mentioned "flower monk" Lu Zhishen, only Wu Song can be regarded as a good man.
Of course, some readers think that Wu Song is too cold and can only be regarded as half a good man at most. Why? Because of Wu Song's behavior in the Mandarin Duck Tower, his reputation was damaged to a certain extent, and he was suspected of killing innocents indiscriminately. However, in terms of The Character of Wu Song, the plot of the Mandarin Duck Tower is also inevitable. Compared with the real villains of Liangshan, Wu Song was already very chivalrous.
Although Liangshan is under the banner of "for the Heavenly Path", it is actually a gathering place for lawbreakers, and the good Han on the mountain are also illegal. To be honest, the good people on Liangshan are actually not good people, because they are the stars in the sky. So, which good man is the real evil man?
There are very few good people on Liangshan, and there are many evil people, such as Sun Erniang, the "Mother Night Fork", Wang Ying, the "short-footed tiger", and others, none of these people are good stubble, and they have done a lot of things that hurt nature and reason. However, if compared with the "black whirlwind" Li Kui, what Wang Ying and Sun Erniang did is simply not worth mentioning. Li Kui's evil is the kind of indiscriminate evil, there is no reason, there is no reason, and when interest comes, it will be evil. Such a person is the real evil person.
In the simplest example, Wu Song hit a tiger and was called a "tiger hero", why did Li Kui beat a nest of tigers, but no one called him a "tiger hero"? Some people may say that Wu Song is a tiger who fights with his bare hands, while Li Kui uses weapons to fight tigers, and the difficulty of the two is not a level.
Although there is some truth in this statement, it is undeniable that the difficulty of Li Kui killing the tiger is also not small. Wu Song was in a drunken state when he fought the tiger, and his courage was naturally stronger than usual, and he was not without weapons, and he carried a stick with him. And Li Kui was in a sober state when he hit the tiger, in this state, if you were given a knife, would you dare to fight with the tiger? The answer, of course, is not to dare.
In terms of difficulty, Wu Song's bare-handed fight against the tiger is naturally extremely difficult, and although Li Kui used weapons to fight the tiger, the difficulty is also not low. However, the results of the two events were very different, Wu Song beat the tiger and became a hero, while Li Kui beat the tiger and finally became a laughing stock, and was almost twisted and sent to the official palace to sit under the bottom of the prison. The reason is still very much related to the setting of these two characters.
Wu Song's setting is a heroic character, and the author is naturally willing to spend a lot of ink on him, such as the plot of fighting tigers, which is to set off his heroic image. And Li Kui's setting itself is the image of an evil person, although his image is thick and straightforward, it is actually the villain around Song Jiang. Similarly, in order to highlight this image of Li Kui, the author also spent a lot of ink on him, and is a character that the author portrays very carefully.
For example, to rob the Jiangzhou Law Field, saving Song Jiang was the main goal, but Li Kui, because of his ability to kill, killed the people who were watching, and even forgot what the purpose of his robbery of the Law Field was. And when Liangshan attacked Zhujiazhuang, Li Kui destroyed the family's house for no reason, and even the old and young did not let go, simply an executioner. However, just because he was Song Jiang's hardcore little brother, he was not punished in any way.
The same is to fight the tiger, Wu Song was originally a good man who stood tall in the sky, and naturally can be called a "hero who fights the tiger". On the other hand, li kui did all evil things, and he couldn't even afford the word "good man", so how could he be worthy of the word "hero"? Therefore, although he killed a litter of tigers, he will not be regarded as a "tiger hero". And he finally paid the price for his evil deeds, and was poisoned by a cup of poisonous wine by Song Jiang, who he trusted most.
After reading "Water Margin", many people are indignant about the ending of the good man of Liangshan, and always feel that their ending is too tragic. In fact, the ending of the good man of Liangshan can be called the finishing touch of the whole book. If these so-called "good men" who kill people and set fires can end up with a perfect ending, it is called a strange thing. Only those who are really good, such as Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Li Jun, Yan Qing and others, the author will arrange a good ending for them, which can be regarded as a great joy for everyone.