The Significance of Water Margin

Significance of the Water Margin: The novel exposes the darkness of feudal society and the evil of the ruling class, writes the historical truth of "officials forcing the people to rebel" and "top-down chaos", reveals that the social root of the peasant uprising lies in cruel feudal oppression and exploitation, and affirms and praises the justice of the peasant revolutionary struggle.

The Water Margin, the full name of which is Loyal and Righteous Water Margin, is a novel edited and rewritten by Shi Naian at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty based on a long-standing folk story about water margin. There are many versions, including 100, 120 and 70.

The artistic achievement of the expanded material "Water Margin" is most prominently manifested in the creation of heroes. The great historical theme of the book is mainly manifested in the praise of the uprising heroes and the description of their struggle.

Therefore, the success of heroic image-building is an important factor for the works to have brilliant artistic life. In Water Margin, there are at least twenty typical images with distinct personalities, which are lifelike and lifelike.

The book Water Margin takes the occurrence and development of peasant uprising as the main line, and describes the whole process from individual awakening to small-scale joint resistance, and then to developing into a grand peasant uprising team through the different experiences of each protagonist being caught up with Liangshan.

It shows the inevitable law of "officials forcing the people to rebel" in the peasant uprising in feudal times, shapes the group image of the peasant uprising leaders, and profoundly reflects the political situation and social contradictions in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

On the side of the oppressed, the author praised the just actions of the leaders of the peasant uprising to rob the rich and help the poor, eliminate violence and quell chaos, and affirmed their revolutionary spirit of daring to resist and struggle.

Song Jiangyuan is a brave man who used his quick wits to help the poor. When he was driven to Liangshan, he strengthened the prestige of the rebels and won a series of victories. However, due to the duality of his personality and the limitations of his thoughts, he chose to compromise and win over when the uprising reached its peak, and finally ruined the uprising. Through the failure of Sung River uprising, the novel objectively summarizes the experience and lessons of the failure of peasant uprising in feudal times.

The story begins with the rise of Gao Qiu, which is intended to show that Gao Qiu is the representative of the feudal ruling group. The author also wrote a large number of corrupt officials and local bullies. It is they who collude with each other and fish the people, forcing the kind and upright people to take risks and rise up.

At the same time, the novel also describes the peasant rebels in tian hu, Wangqing, Fang La and other areas to a certain extent, and deeply digs into various social phenomena and problems in feudal times from the breadth and depth, as well as the deep-seated reasons of peasant uprisings.

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