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Chapter 205 Random Guessing When "Water Margin" was Compiled ([-])
"Water Margin" has just appeared, and it has won unstinting praise from the top literati class as a "shuobu" ("Three Kingdoms", which was released at the same time, is really miserable.)
The initial praise was mostly in the "narrative", such as "detailed twists and turns, blood connection", "never seen...", "the method of preface, the wonder of historiography", "the first under "Historical Records"... Next, In less than a hundred years, the folks have shown their "welcome" with the most complicated publications of the editions that have never been seen before or since, as well as the creation and publication of the most classic novels by colleagues (Ming and Qing). "degree.

In general,

As the NO1 of Chinese novels.

Not to mention his writing style (the first 70 chapters are also the first), not to mention his narration, but in terms of painting, "lifelike and portrayal" can only praise the portrayal of characters in "Water Margin".

I personally think that Shi Naian's life experience is too rich. I believe that his life that has not been fully verified so far is very likely to be the same as "Zhang Xianzhong Tibetan Bank", and the results are all true.

He is most likely an important role in Zhang Shicheng's army.

The "Nai'an" in "Shi Nai'an" is the "room name", such as "Xin Jiaxuan", "Zhang Tao'an"...

Even if it was only a hundred years before the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the literati in Jiajing could only see his "room name".

This is much like folk rumors about Zhang Shicheng's descendants who "surnamed Wu at birth and surnamed Zhang at death" kept their names incognito for hundreds of years.

Of course, this is not the key point. From the perspective of "lifelike and portrayal" of the characters in the novel, "Shi Naian" is definitely regarded as the most thrilling master of "gathering style" in the history of Chinese novels.

It is estimated that he was not able to get away before 1364. It is doubtful whether the surname "Shi" is willing to be seen by people a hundred years later.

The background experience of the characters in "Water Margin" is too broad, and the realistic brushwork of "not concealing evil and not false beauty" in historical records to create characters is not only controlled by "pen force".

Let's first look at the legendary "Zhang Shicheng's eighteen shoulder poles", that is, what kind of backgrounds are most likely among the colleagues of "Nai'an".

A total of 18 people revolted with Zhang Shicheng in the Arctic Hall, namely: "Zhang Shicheng, Zhang Shiyi, Zhang Shide, Zhang Shixin, Pan Yuanming, Pan Yuanshao, Lu Zhen, Zhang Tianqi, Li Bosheng, Mo Tianyou, Mo Tianxi, Xu Yi, Xu Zhijian, Han Qian, Qian Fu, Song Xing.

Apart from Brother Zhang Shicheng, many others are also recorded in history books, such as:

Pan Yuanming and Pan Yuanshao were descendants of Zhao Tingmei, king of Qin in the Northern Song Dynasty. After the death of the Later Song Dynasty, they changed their surname to Pan and lived in seclusion in Hailing, Taizhou.

Both Lu Zhen and Zhang Tianqi were from Xinghua. According to historical records, Lu Zhen was the descendant of Lu Wende, a famous general in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Li Bosheng, the son of Li Xingsu, a Hailing yin and yang magician, should be one of the few learned scholars at that time.

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The character identity attributes in "Water Margin" are the most complex and diverse in the history of Chinese novels I have read. In the first half of the text, the characterization and "lifelike portrayal" are vivid and vivid. up.

To write about little robbers, the author has been undercover for a few months, collecting stories from the field or looking for a documentary literature for reference, maybe he can write.However, it is necessary to write about giants from small thieves to kings in Bingshan, such as the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and also portray dozens of thieves with "detailed grievances and blood connections" as "no one doubts that they are fake for hundreds of years" ( Those literati who praised the Water Margin in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, their status, talents and life experience are not low), this cannot be achieved by "collecting style".

Look at the division of labor of the 108 generals after the Great Gathering. Could this be fabricated by novelists out of thin air?No wonder later generations of peasant uprisings regarded this book as a textbook for their ancestors, and it is no wonder that Mao Zedong, who has lived in Chishui four times, praised the tactics of three strikes at Zhujiazhuang.

Let’s talk about the fighting descriptions that are most concerned with the accuracy of the author’s writing. “Water Margin” is the originator of the Chinese martial arts genre. No one has surpassed this book so far. Except for the excellent writing of the Water Margin, it is estimated that only Wang Shizhen, Yu Dayou, and Lu Xun Huo Yuanjia’s skills are combined. , to write it out!
Perhaps the author of "Water Margin" not only knows martial arts himself, but at least he has experienced a bunch of masters around him, watched actual combat, and can use martial arts to describe and shape characters. Hundreds of years have passed, and for the time being, only a few chapters by Jin Yong can be compared with it comparable to.

Furthermore, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Kong Qi said in his notes "Zhi Zhengzhi Ji":

When the city of Pingjiang was first built, a certain city was several feet long, and three people fell into it.So he dug deep into the ground and found a stone with a square width of three feet, engraved with the words:
"36, eighteen sons, in the year of Yinmao, to Chensi, and jointly repaired the Zhangye Homophone. Repair the ancient bank, reopen the river, the soldiers and civilians clap their hands and laugh. The sun rises from the east end of the house, and the upper reaches of the Liyu Mountain. The stars pass through the moon, and it will be at the beginning of the noon."

Mo Xingyun says "Tang Guichou stands on March 18rd".From time to time, between the autumn and winter of Zhengxinmao, the folk recited it according to legend, but they didn't know its prophecy.Until the fall of Bingshenchun City, Zhang Jiusi took it and paid the money next autumn. Some people began to say: "Zhang Qimou only had 36 people, including Ruohuo, Zhou, Li, Yan, etc.." also. "The star passes through the moon" is also a horizontal boat. "36" person, four nine [-] also.None of them have clarified their meaning in detail, nor do they know what to do. The theory of "opening the river" was made by Jia Lu Pingzhang, and the world was in chaos. Those who "fell the pagoda to the ground" have abandoned temples and temples since the chaos, and monks fled to set up army camps...

Anyone who is familiar with "Water Margin" will be familiar with this note.

This "Shijie Xianying" is really ruthless like a prophecy.

Fang La, the head of the Manichaeism, only fiddled with it: "Add a little to ten thousand, and the honor will begin at the end of winter. Cross the Zhejiang River and show up in Wuxing."

Liu Futong was a little short, so he could only learn from his predecessors: "The stone man has two eyes, and he provokes the Yellow River to rebel against the world."

Even if Zhu Yuanzhang has Liu Bowen who can make "Song of Shaobing" by his side, he can only say in embarrassment:

"Taerhei, the northerner is the master and the southerner is the guest; Taerhong, the man in red is the protagonist."

Zhang Shicheng's "Shijie Xianying" in Suzhou's year "Tang Guichou stands on March [-]rd" is combined with the opening chapter of "Water Margin" and then "Da Juyi", how similar it is.

Really short-sighted.

This is the longest "prophecy" in the history of China that I have read, and it is compiled like a "story".

Like whose handwriting?
Zhang Shicheng's side is a "wisdom star Wu Yong".

If it is said that beside Zhang Jiusi, Li Bosheng, who came from a family of yin and yang, is "Gongsun Sheng, the dragon who entered the cloud", and who is the teacher "Wu Yong, a wise multi-star"?
Unfortunately, "Wu Yong" is just one of the few among the 36 people who were "renamed" after "Water Margin" was written.

As for when "Wu Xuexue" was changed to "Wu Yong"?Because the Water Margin is so rare in the Yuan Dynasty, at least the 36 people in the engraved version of "The Leopard Head Monk Returns to the Vulgar" by Zhou Xianwang in the early Ming Dynasty are still "Wu scholars".

Sorry, "Nai'an" is said to have been "teacher" at the beginning of "Xingzang" after leaving Suzhou.

"Wu Yong" homophonic "useless"

Zhuangzi's "Human World" says: The "oak tree" used for sacrifices called "useless" by craftsmen is loose wood. This "useless" is mostly used to describe people who are "not useful for the world".

"Wu Yong" is obviously not "self-defeating".

Anyone who is familiar with "Water Margin" knows that before the expedition to Liao Dynasty, Luo Zhenren gave Song Jiang a prophecy, which contained "Wu head and Chu tail".

So, where is Wu head and Chu tail?

(End of this chapter)