Examples are given to illustrate the national aesthetic psychology of China people reflected by the candles in Water Margin.

A certain sense of beauty and aesthetic concept has a deep ethnic origin, which is irreplaceable by other ethnic groups. The nicknames of the characters in Water Margin have this deep national origin.

Thirty-six posthumous title were recorded in Song Jiang's Zan Thirty-six People (Gong Kai). Starting from people's understanding of life at that time, tracing back and exploring the true source and social background of the story of Water Margin, we can see that the nickname of Liangshan hero reflects the style of a specific nation and people's aesthetic psychology to varying degrees. In a sense, they are not so much nicknames as Bi Xiao, which not only embodies the morphological characteristics of the characters, but also embodies the spirit of the times, and is full of strong and true social fashion figures' genre paintings. It plays an invisible guiding role in illustration for readers to grasp and understand the national color caused by the specific era of the works, even the ideas and creative themes of the works derived from the social consciousness infected by religious superstitions.

Among the 100 heroes in Water Margin, there are five nicknames with the word "dragon": Jiu Wenlong, Ru Yunlong, Hunjiang Dragon, One-horned Dragon and Chu Lin Long. "Nine Dragons" is Shi Jin's nickname. In The Water Margin, his father, Shi Taigong, hired a skillful craftsman to embroider for him, and tattooed nine dragons on his shoulders and chest, so people in a county in Fiona Fang know that he is called "Nine Dragons". The dragon is a deified animal in the imagination of the ancients. Since Fuxi, Shennong, Huangdi, Yao, Shun and Yu, it has been worshipped as a totem. It is something transformed from religion to god. People use it to symbolize wit, courage, strength, omen, good luck and longevity. Therefore, idioms such as "dragon and phoenix are auspicious", "looking for dragons" and "climbing dragons to attach phoenix" have been quoted everywhere for thousands of years. Dragon pattern has also become a symbol of enterprising spirit and a folk custom. The nine dragons in Water Margin are the image expression of this national psychology and custom ~