The Big Idea of Water Margin

The general idea of Water Margin: In the late Northern Song Dynasty, political corruption, social darkness, and the government forced the people to rebel. One of them is led by Song Jiang peasant insurgents, they are entrenched in the Water Margin Liangshan, there are one hundred and eight generals, three defeats to suppress the official soldiers, a moment of the court, Song Jiang also want to come to the court to recruit peace, the Song court knows "kill" can not, so they have to "appease" They.

Since then, Liangshan heroes for the Song Dynasty, fighting against the invasion of Liao, pacified Tian Qing, Wang Hu's uprising, the southern conquest of Zhejiang Fang La's uprising. Half of the 108 generals were killed, and the remaining Liang Shan heroes were killed by the traitorous ministers soon after they returned to the court to be honored.

Expanded Information

The Water Margin has become a work of great influence in the history of Chinese literature not only because of the richness of its ideological content, but also because of the maturity of its art. The Water Margin inherited and developed the fine traditions of realism and romanticism, and combined them.

The artistic achievement of Water Margin is most prominently shown in the molding of heroic characters. The great historical theme of the book is crystallized mainly through the glorification of the uprising heroes and the portrayal of their struggles.

The success of the heroes' portrayal is thus an important factor in the glorious artistic life of the work. In "Water Margin", at least one or two dozen typical images with distinctive personalities have appeared, and these images are flesh and blood, vivid and vivid, leaping off the page.

In terms of characterization, the most important feature is that the author is good at putting the characters in the real historical environment, fastening the identity of the characters, experiences and encounters to portray their personalities.

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Baidu Encyclopedia - Water Margin