Mr. Shi Nai'an's "Water Margin" has a certain factual basis, many of the characters in it are verified, are real historical figures, Lin Chong, Wu Song, etc. are real, today we want to talk about this character, in history is also real, but the origin is not the same.
Zhang Heng is a character in the classic Chinese novel Water Margin, nicknamed Chuanhuo'er (船火兒), of the Jiangzhou clan , originally the Duke of Xunyang Jiang , and a local tyrant along with his younger brother Zhang Shun. After participating in the rescue of Song Jiang, he made a big fuss in Jiangzhou and was one of the twenty-nine heroes of the White Dragon Temple. At the time of liangshan's great gathering, one of the 108 generals ranked twenty-eighth, Shangying Tianjingxing (一作天平星), whose function was the leader of the water army. Zheng Fangla died of illness in Hangzhou and was posthumously awarded the title of Zhongwu Lang.
Since the blueprint of the Water Margin is "Xuanhe Testament" and "Song Jiang Thirty-Six People Praise", we can find from this that there are characters similar to Zhang Heng, these two versions have "Fire Boatman Zhang Cen" and "Yizhang Qing Zhang Heng", in addition to mentioning the pirate Li Heng, and in "Song Jiang Thirty-Six Praises", Zhang Heng is nicknamed "Ship Fire", and there are praises: "Too good man, thirty have six, there is no such fire, the number is insufficient." The "boat fire" in this is the person who makes a living on the water in the Song Dynasty, may be an ordinary boatman, may be a leader, these people are in the historical book or novel, whether there are these people to be examined, but in history, there are exact records of people, there is really Zhang Heng this person.
According to historical records, in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a righteous soldier in the Taihang Mountains, named Zhang Heng, who once resisted the Jin army. Because in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were hundreds of uprisings, many of which did not have accurate historical materials, so Zhang Heng was the same.
Because Shi Nai'an's "Water Margin" is true and false, there is art in the creation, fire boatman Zhang Cen", "Yizhang Qing ZhangHeng", "pirate Li Heng", "ship fire Zhang Heng", etc., are all in the "Xuanhe Testament" and "Song Jiang Thirty-Six Praises", although their era is relatively close to the Song Jiang Uprising, because it is a historical book, not an official historical record, Xiaobian is more inclined to Zhang Heng in "Water Margin", that is, Zhang Heng, an anti-Jin righteous soldier in the Taihang Mountains in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, may also be able to mix his image!
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