In "Water Margin", there are two heroes named for tattoos, one is the flower monk Lu Zhishen, and the other is the Nine-Striped Dragon Shi Jin. The Nine-Striped Dragon Shi Jin was a very famous good man on Liangshan. For Shi Jin, even the great literary scholar of the Qing Dynasty, Jin Shengsi, also praised: "Wonderful history is advanced, and history is fast, so that people have children like the sigh of the nine-striped dragon." Not only that, but even the Ming Dynasty philosopher Li Zhen praised Shi Jin: Shi Jin was a hanzi, but it was more difficult for a military master like Zhu Wu.
Shi Jin's weapon
Shi Jin's weapons are also quite distinctive, and the good men in Liangshan are not a few who change weapons. For example, the tiger hero Wu Song used to use a short stick with eyebrows, and then replaced it with an iron ring knife. When Lin Chong went to Liangshan before, he said that the weapon in his hand was a flower gun, but after going to Liangshan, he was replaced by a snake spear. But Shi Jin was different, since he went to Liangshan, he had never changed the weapons in his hands, and every time he charged into battle, the weapons used were three-pointed, two-bladed, four-edged, and eight-ring knives. Even if he left the cottage and went down the mountain to do things, Shi Jin was still carrying a knife, not a sword like a jianghu chivalrous guest. Shi Jin used a knife every time, so why would he say that he had not learned the knife technique?
This is to talk about the origin of Shi Jin's learning art. It is said that at that time, before Gao Li's departure, Wang Jin's father once had a fight with Gao Li, so Wang Jin was hated by him. In order to avoid being framed by Gao Qi, Wang Jin left Tokyo and went to Yan'an to join the old jing xianggong, because he was a famous general of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the town guarded the border pass, which won the emperor's credit, and Gao Li could not help him. Passing by Shijiazhuang, Wang Jin's mother fell ill and recuperated at Shi Taigong's home. Even if he didn't fight or know each other, after being defeated by Wang Jin, Shi Jin was convinced and worshiped Wang Jin as his master. At this point, Wang Jiaotou taught Shi Jin eighteen martial arts every day, so what about these eighteen martial arts, which eighteen martial arts? The Water Margin has a record: spear hammer bow crossbow, whip sword chain Lao. Axes and axes, sticks and sticks.
Among these weapons, there is no figure of a knife, but it is a weapon that accompanies Shi Jin for most of his military career. Before Wang Jin taught Shi Jin martial arts, Shi Jin's father said that he didn't know how much money he had made, so he taught him to his master. It shows that Shi Jin has a certain foundation, is it better taught by the original master? Nor is it, because Wang Jin has evaluated Shi Jin's kung fu: what Ling Lang learned is all flower sticks, just good-looking, useless to fight. This shows that even if Shi Jin met Wang Jinqian, even if he had learned the sword technique, it was only a flower fist embroidery leg that was not of great use.
Let's look at Wang Jin again, he and Lin Chong have a similar encounter, but they did not go up to Liangshan and fall into the grass. It shows that he still can't give up on the imperial court, so he doesn't want the kung fu he gave to Shi Jin to become a tool for him to rebel against the imperial court. Coupled with the fact that there are apprentices who cannot disobey the rules of the master, Shi Jin has no way, only with a knife, so that he will not violate the master's wishes, secondly, Shi Jin is a thief in Liangshan, if he is found out from the martial arts routine that he is Wang Jin's apprentice, he will definitely implicate Wang Jin, fortunately, the master has not taught the sword method, he can only use the knife, Shi Jin, such a serious person, how can he be willing to implicate the master?