The main content is that after Song Jiang had a rest in the camp for many days, he went out to look for Dai Zong, but went out of town to Xunyang Building, where he enjoyed himself drinking and eating, and wrote two poems on the wall in a drunken mood. It was just discovered by Huang Wenbing, a judge of Wuwei Army. He informed the magistrate of Cai Jiu, and the magistrate immediately ordered the arrest. After Dai Zhong knew it, he let Sung River pretend to be crazy to avoid this robbery, but he didn't know that Huang Wenbing was a very stingy person, and wanted to kill Sung River, provoking several times in front of the magistrate. Cai Jiu, the magistrate, ordered Song Jiang to be sent to death row and sent Dai Zhong to Tokyo to report to Cai Taishi. On the way, Dai Zong passed by Zhugui Hotel for food. After being searched by medicine, he found a letter, the content of which was to kill Song Jiang. So Dai Zhong was led to the water margin by Zhu Gui, and they came up with a plan to teach people to copy a reply. Wu Yong asked Dai Zhong to carve an inscription on the pretext of paying Xiao Rang (calligrapher) and Jin Dajian (sculptor) to go up the mountain, and they were invited to join the water margin, so they began to fake Cai Jing's reply.
1. Introduction to the Novel
The Water Margin, also known as The Water Margin of Loyalty, was written by Shi Naian, a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu, at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, and was one of the Four Great Classical Novels in China. The book describes the story of 118 heroes headed by Song Jiang in Liangshan Uprising at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and after Juyi, they accepted the appeal and fought everywhere. Written by Shi Naian and edited by Luo Guanzhong, Water Margin is also one of the most epic works in Chinese literature. It is one of the earliest Zhanghui novels written in vernacular Chinese in the history of China. There are many versions, which are widely circulated and well-known. It has a profound influence on narrative literature in China and even East Asia. The Water Margin is a novel with the theme of describing the ancient peasant uprising. It vividly depicts the whole process of peasant uprising from its occurrence, development to its failure, profoundly reveals the social roots of the uprising, enthusiastically praises the resistance struggle of the uprising heroes and their social ideals, and specifically reveals the internal historical reasons for the failure of the uprising.
Second, the author's brief introduction
1, Shi Naian
Shi Naian (1296 ~ 1371), formerly known as Yan Duan, whose name is Zhao Rui, whose nickname is Zi 'an and whose nickname is Nai 'an. Writers in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. Han nationality, Xinghua, Jiangsu (talking about Qiantang, Zhejiang). Originally from Hailing County, Taizhou, he lived in Shijiaxiang, outside Changmen, Suzhou, and then moved to Baijuchang, Xinghua County (now Baiju Town, Dafeng City, Jiangsu Province). Smart and studious since childhood, he was admitted as a scholar in the first year of Yuanyanyou (1314), a scholar in the first year of Taiding (1324), and a scholar in Shuner (1331). Yin, who soon served as Qiantang County, resigned and went home because he was reprimanded by the county official for defending the poor.
2. Luo Guanzhong
Luo Guanzhong (about 1331-about 1411), a famous book, with the word in the middle, was a novelist in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties and the author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. A native of Taiyuan Prefecture, Bingzhou, Shanxi Province, his main works include the novels Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Biography of Sui and Tang Dynasties, History of the Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties, and Biography of Three Sui Demons. Among them, The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as The Romance of the Three Kingdoms) is Luo Guanzhong's masterpiece, and this novel has a far-reaching influence on later literary creation. In addition to novel creation, there is still a drama "Zhao Taizu's Dragon and Tiger Meeting".