Lin Chong is a very important character in the Water Margin, because some friends have not read the original work, only watched the TV series, so there are five major misunderstandings about Lin Chong, let's analyze the true face of Lin Chong, restore the most real image of Lin Chong in the original work.
CCTV version of Lin Chong
Myth 1: Lin Chong is a big handsome guy. The CCTV version of Lin Chong is the least similar to the original appearance. Lin Chong looks like a leopard head with ringed eyes, swallow jaws and tiger whiskers, known as leopard head, also known as Xiao Zhang Fei. If the author sees that Lin Chong has become a handsome handsome man in the TV series, and Li Kui has grown into the appearance of Zhang Fei, the author will definitely be angry. The reason for this change may be because Lin Chong's personality does not have Zhang Fei's fierceness, and in the face of Gao Yannei's flirting with his own wife, he actually raised his fist and fell down, which shows that his temperament is not like Zhang Fei, if Lin Chong's appearance is made into Zhang Fei's appearance, and the temperament is completely opposite, it will make people very awkward.
Lin Chong in the original book
Myth 2: Lin Chong's 800,000 forbidden army instructors are high officials. In the new Water Margin TV series, the interpretation of Lin Chong's position is even more outrageous, portraying Lin Chong as the commander of the 800,000 forbidden army. This is seriously wrong, 800,000 sounds spectacular, but one person can't teach that much, the total number is 800,000, but Lin Chong may also teach only a few dozen people and a few hundred people. The head of the sect is a martial arts instructor, there is no military power in his hands, only responsible for training the martial arts of soldiers, if the imperial court has appointments, there is also the possibility of being a high official, the head of the sect is called the head of the dujiao, when Gao Li marched on Liangshan, there was a dujiao head, called Qiu Yue, who served as the commander of the left Righteous Guard's army, escorted the general, and there was also a deputy head of the teaching, who served as the commander of the right righteous guard army, the general of the che riding, called Zhou Ang. This shows that the head of the capital generally has a formal official position, and the head of the teaching head at this level of Lin Chong is not yet an official, and he needs to accumulate battle achievements to have the opportunity to become an officer.
The Song Dynasty forbidden army
In addition, Lin Chong basically did not train soldiers in peacetime, because the management and training of the forbidden army at the end of the Song Dynasty were very relaxed, and Lin Chong himself said that when he was the head of the church, he drank and had fun every day, and he was extremely happy. This has led to the extremely weak combat effectiveness of the forbidden army.
Myth Three: Lin Chong is an upright person. The Lin Chong in the original work and the Lin Chong in people's minds are even more different in personality. Lin Chong gave in to Gao Yunei, who teased his wife, and killed Wang Lun, who took him in, and after the wild boar Lin was saved by Lu Zhishen, he deliberately revealed Lu Zhishen's identity to Dong Chao and Xue Ba, and even Dong Chao and Xue Ba shook their heads to show that Lin Chong was not benevolent. After killing Lu Qian and Fu'an, Lin Chong went to a small house in the wilderness to keep warm, a group of old people took him in and roasted the fire in the house, people were drinking, Lin Chong wanted to buy wine, but people's wine was not sold, Lin Chong beat some old people away with sticks, and also burned a man's beard and robbed them of their wine.
Lin Chong was suspected of betraying Lu Zhishen
Myth 4: Lin Chong almost stabbed Gao Qi and was stopped by Song Jiang. In the original work, Gao Li was captured alive on Liangshan, and Lin Chong and Yang Zhi looked at Gao Li angrily when they saw it, and that was all. In the TV series, it became Lin Chong who robbed Gao Li, and even had the opportunity to slaughter Gao Li with a knife, but he grinded and rubbed there without moving, and after a while, Song Jiang came, and he couldn't kill if he wanted to, song Jiang stopped Lin Chong and protected Gao Li and ran. Then Lin Chong vomited blood and fell off his horse, screaming for his life. In the original work, Lin Chong did not have such a big temperament. In fact, Lin Chong's main achievements were achieved after zhao an, and the adaptation of the TV series seriously deviated from the spirit of the original work, artificially elevating Lin Chong's personality of a small citizen into a flesh-and-blood, arrogant husband.
Lin Chong angrily rebuked Gao Li
Myth 5: Lin Chong's martial arts skills are inferior to Shi Wengong's. This view is very confusing, and many friends who have read the original work also think that Lin Chong's martial arts are not as good as Shi Wengong. The main basis is that Shi Wengong once beat Qin Mingli timidly for more than 20 rounds, and was chased by Shi Wengong and stabbed Qin Ming with a shot. Lin Chong and Qin Ming's martial arts were close, so it was concluded that Lin Chong could not beat Shi Wengong, and even some people said that Shi Wengong could fight two Lin Chong. In fact, it was ignored that Shi Wengong rode the Zhaoye Jade Lion Horse and occupied the advantage of the war horse, plus Qin Ming knew that this battle could not be won, and winning was equivalent to fighting with Song Jiang to grab the lord of the village.
Shi Wengong
Lin Chong and Shi Wengong met in Liangshan for the first time when they fought with Zengtou City, but Shi Wengong did not dare to PK directly with Lin Chong, in fact, Shi Wengong was afraid of Lin Chong in his heart, so he did not fight for three consecutive days, and he held out a damage trick at home to routine Chao Gai. When Song Jiang led his troops to attack Zengtou City, Wu Yong arranged for Lin Chong to guard the cottage, because Wu Yong knew that Lin Chong had the ability to capture Shi Wengong alive, so he avoided it, or Lin Chong went to war and captured Shi Wengong, and Song Jiang let Lin Chong come to be the owner of the village, and Lin Chong was not the material of the village owner. In order to avoid this embarrassment, Wu Yong took the initiative to let Lin Chong avoid.
Today's realization: Lin Chong's image is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, in general, friends who have seen the original work have a better understanding of Lin Jiaotou, Lin Chong is not a big hero, but a very ordinary person, he has the shortcomings of ordinary people, bullying soft and afraid of hard. Friends who have only watched TV dramas know Lin Chong more like a face hero. Therefore, read more original works to experience the real original water margin feelings.