Although China's four famous works, "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", and "Water Margin", although they are novels and literary works, they actually have a certain historical background in them, especially many of the characters in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" are indeed human in history, and even the stories that happen are indeed recorded in history. And "Water Margin" is the most delicate character description in the four famous works, Liangshan 108 good men each person's personality and birth are very different, but the author can vividly depict it.
Therefore, in the folk "Water Margin" is very vital, readers who like "Water Margin" must be as good as Liangshan.
For example, the flower monk Lu Zhishen is a very likable character. In his early years, Lu Zhishen served in the army under the command of Jingluo Xianggong in Yan'an Province, and later served as a governor in Jingliu Province. After fighting for the Jin father and daughter, he killed the town of Kansai with three fists, became a monk in order to avoid an official government, and finally went up to Liangshan.
In addition, there is the jade Qilin Lu Junyi, in Liangshan his martial arts is the highest, the Jianghu people called: "Hebei Three Absolute", in the entire "Water Margin" character setting, his martial arts can be called the world's first.
Song Jiang, the leading figure in Water Margin, is a controversial character, song Jiang is actually the real founder of Liangshan in history, and in December of the first year of the Song Huizong Xuanhe (1119), he gathered 36 people to revolt in the area north of the Yellow River, specifically robbing the rich and helping the poor, rebelling against the cruel rule of the Song Dynasty.
The story of the heroes of Liangshan was widely circulated at that time, and gong Kai, a painter and writer in the Southern Song Dynasty, had already written "The 36 Praises and Prefaces of the Song River", which recorded the true story of the 36 good men of Liangshan, so in real history, the good men of Liangshan were not 108 generals but 36 generals. And the 108 in "Water Margin" will be added by Shi Nai'an himself in order to enrich the story.
Therefore, many characters in "Water Margin" such as Lu Zhishen and Lu Junyi do not necessarily exist in history, and the only song jiang that can be determined is indeed his own person, and in the end, he really led Liangshan zhaoan.
The "Chronicle of the Eastern Capital" records: "Song Jiang Kou Jingdong, Meng Shangshu, said that Song Jiang ran rampant in Qi Wei with thirty-six people, tens of thousands of officers and troops, and no one dared to resist, it would be better to forgive Jiang, so that Fang La would redeem himself, or enough to quell the chaos in the southeast." It is clearly recorded in the historical records that Song Jiang was used by the imperial court as a gun to fight against a larger rebel military, and Song Jiang at that time did not know how many battles he fought with the Song Dynasty, and finally had to surrender. The upper wax is already the end of the crossbow where is its opponent? The ending is similar to that in "Water Margin", the united imperial court defeated Fang La, and his brothers around him also perished.
However, many people may wonder, Song Jiang led the good Han of Liangshan to the imperial court, and who occupied such a large territory of Liangshan later? After the Song River, Liangshan did not fall silent. Soon after, a national hero was born again, a real good man, his name was Zhang Rong.
Zhang Rong was originally an ordinary fisherman in Liangshan, Liangshan Po has a large lake, the area is about three hundred miles north and south, more than a hundred miles from east to west, vast and boundless aquatic products are abundant, before the water berth was unmanaged, you can let the people fish, then later the Southern Song Dynasty implemented a "public land office", in short, it means that in Liangshan to fish must pay heavy taxes.
So the people of Liangshan revolted again, and Zhang Rong was elected as the leader. An insurrectionary army against exploitation was formed.
We know that at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty continued to invade the Central Plains. On the other hand, the Southern Song Dynasty can be said to be the fall of the Dynasty, and the mediocre subjects are in charge. The anti-Jin hero Yue Fei was killed by the traitors Qin Ju, Zhang Jun, and others.
Yue Fei once wrote on the battlefield of the anti-Jin Dynasty, "Jing Kang shame, Ju Wei Xue." When the courtiers hate, when to extinguish. Drive a long car and step through the Helan Mountain. Zhuangzhi was hungry for meat and laughed about thirsting for The blood of the Huns. Wait to start from scratch, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and go to the sky. "How touching, touched countless patriots, including Zhang Rong."
When the Jin army invaded that year, Zhang Rong's rebel army put aside the struggle with the imperial court and threw himself into the team against the Jin army, relying on his own rebel army to fight against the Jin army for six years.
The Minutes of Reading the History of Public Opinion records: "Victory River: Ten Miles East of the County, the real name is Shōtou River. In Song Jianyan, Zhang Rong and Jia Hu led the Shandong rebel army, and the Jin people moved to Cheng and Chu, and the Jin generals were in Taizhou, and Rong set up an ambush with a boat division, covering the shrunken lake, defeating the people, and changing its name to Victory Lake. ”
Zhang Rong, who fought bravely, had a resounding title in the jianghu called": "Zhang Beiwan", which was not given by the author of the later generations, but was handed down from the jianghu. After that, Zhang Rong attracted the attention of the Jin army, and in the first year of Shaoxing (1131), Yan Chang personally led more than 10,000 troops to try to destroy Zhang Rong's rebel army in one fell swoop. Zhang Rong dispatched dozens of small boats to meet the enemy, although Zhang Rong's strength was not as good, but he frequently designed, trapped the Jin army in the quagmire, killed more than 10,000 Jin troops, and took advantage of the victory in Kefu Taizhou.
The "Biography of Jin Shi Chi Yan Hui" records: "The thieves were in Liangshan And they obtained more than a thousand boats." Although Zhang Rong was born as a fisherman, he dared to resist tyranny, and at the time of the survival of the nation, he was able to put down the infighting organization team to fight against the invading Jin army, and achieved outstanding results, which can be called a really good man and a national hero.