In "Water Margin", tigers appear frequently, and Shi Nai'an mentions two names, one is tiger and tiger, and the other is a big worm.
The word "tiger" appears a total of 599 times, including carnivores such as tigers and people with the word "tiger" such as the nickname; the big worm appears 141 times, referring to the carnivorous tiger; there are 8 chapters with "tiger" in the title of the entire book, and the word "tiger" refers to the carnivorous tiger and the good man with the word "tiger" such as the nickname. (The above data refers to the Hundred Times Edition of "Water Margin")
Careful friends will find that the tiger in the book can have a unified name, "tiger", "tiger", "big worm" can be, why should there be different names?
Distinguish between real and false tigers, carnivorous tigers and people known as "tigers".
1. Carnivorous tiger
In the book, Hong Taiwei encountered the "big worm" at Longhu Mountain; the "big worm" hit by the walker Wu Song Jingyang Gang; and the "four big worms" killed by the black whirlwind Li Kui in Yiling.
These "big bugs" refer to predatory tigers, which are real tigers.
Of course, there are exceptions, such as the "mother worm" Gu Dajie, but this rarely occurs, and it is okay to change Gu Dajie's nickname to "Tigress", but it is too ordinary and does not match the content embodied in the whole book.
2. People who are called "tigers"
This part is divided into two categories, one refers to the good people of the rivers and lakes, and the other refers to corrupt officials and corrupt officials.
1) Good guys
Among the 100 single and eight generals of Liangshan Po, there are many good men nicknamed tigers, such as Lei Heng, Jinmao Tiger Yanshun, Short-legged Tiger Wang Ying, Jumping Tiger Chen Da, Huaxiang Tiger Gong Wang, Zhongjian Tiger Ding Desun, Fighting Tiger General Li Zhong, Smiling Tiger Zhu Fu, and Blue-eyed Tiger Li Yun.
There are many good men, but the "quality" is not very high, the martial arts are not strong, the blue-eyed tiger Li Yun also started with Li Kui when the black whirlwind Li Kui was imprisoned for a few days, otherwise it would be really difficult to fight with Li Kui, Li Kui and the victory over Li Yun, only ten steamed buns and two pounds of beef, not even need an extra bowl of wine.
Although the martial arts of these good men are not very high, their nickname "tiger" also refers to their fierceness.
2) Corrupt officials
That's the key.
Of the one hundred and eight people in Liangshan, how many good men have beaten the tiger?
We really find only four people who are described in detail from the book, Wu Song, Li Kui, Xie Zhen, and Xie Bao.
As for Li Zhong, he was just a person who ran to sell medicines, and the so-called tiger-related drugs were all fake, and his ability could not beat the tiger.
The four beat the tiger, and coincidentally, they all fought corrupt officials and corrupt officials.
Wu Song not only beat corrupt officials, but also killed corrupt officials, and when the "blood splashed the Mandarin Duck Building", Wu Song killed Zhang Dujian and Zhang Tuanlian in Mengzhou.
Li Kui had fought against corrupt officials in wuwei's army in Jiangzhou; after killing relatives of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, Xiao Whirlwind Chai had entered Gao Tang Prefecture, where Li Kui had killed Gao Tianci, the wife and brother of Gao Lian, the governor of Gao Tang Prefecture; and disguised himself as a county commander in Shouzhang County, scaring the county order away.
After Xie Zhen and Xie Bao were rescued from prison by the sick lieutenant Chi Sun Li, the young lieutenant Chi Sun Xin, Gu Dajie, and other good men, they killed Dengzhou Bao Jie.
Is it a coincidence that all those who have beaten real tigers have beaten corrupt officials and corrupt officials called "tigers"?
If it had not appeared in "Water Margin", Shusheng might have thought it was a coincidence, but in Shi Nai'an's pen, it would not be a coincidence, he would have written the book in this way.
Seeing this, perhaps some friends doubt that in ancient times, corrupt officials were also called "tigers"?
Definitely.
If the records are too far away, we will not look for them, but let's look at a sentence in the classic work of the legalists in the pre-Qin period, "Han Feizi": "Scatter its party, collect the rest, close its doors, seize its auxiliaries, and the country has no tiger."
Roughly speaking, it means: smash their friends, clean up the rest of the sins, block the way for the traitors to act, and eliminate their accomplices, so that the country will not have evil tigers.
Here we are talking about the traitorous ministers, who are almost all around corrupt officials.
Obviously, corrupt officials are called "tigers."
It is also easy to understand that tigers eat people and are a curse.
What about corrupt officials?
They do not eat people, but do things that are more hated than tigers that eat people, they are the scourge of the country and the people, so they are called "tigers".
epilogue:
The slogan of Liangshan Po's hundred singles and eight people is "for the Heavenly Path", killing the real tiger for the common people is for the Skywalker; for the emperor to eliminate corrupt officials and corrupt officials, it is also for the Skywalker.
The real tigers are the ceiling-level hunters and the good men with high martial arts like Wu Song.
The one who fights the fake tiger is the good man of Liangshan who hoes the strong and the weak to help the heavenly path.
Take multiple measures at the same time, let the hurting tigers in nature go to the places where they should go, let the "tigers" in the imperial court accept punishment, and the common people can live and work in peace and contentment, which is what Shi Nai'an wants to embody.
There are not many tigers in nature in "Water Margin", but more "evil tigers" in the imperial court.
Shi Nai'an was afraid that everyone would not know what he was talking about, so he deliberately used two different names of "big worm and tiger".
Of course, the good men of Liangshan did not fight a few "tigers", they really wanted to clean up the "tigers" in the imperial court, even if they fought half of them, they would not be killed or injured two-thirds, and the Northern Song Dynasty would not perish.
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