What kind of book is Dangkou Zhi?

Dangkou Zhi is the title of China's novels in the Qing Dynasty, written by Yu Wanchun (1794-1849). This book was first written in the sixth year of Daoguang (1826) and completed in the twenty-seventh year of Daoguang (1847), with three drafts in the middle.

In this book, the author hates the idea of the water margin uprising led by Song Jiang, which is consistent with Jin Shengtan's idea. Therefore, he used Jin Shengtan's "Water Margin" for seventy times, from which he invented a big story about how Song Jiang and others were "captured" and called his book "Dangkou Zhi", but the first edition of this book was titled "Water Margin".

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Because the author was born before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising in the Qing Dynasty, domestic thieves came forth in large numbers, and the author felt that China was suffering from thieves at that time, so he hated thieves and said, "Since I am loyal and righteous, I will never be a robber; Thieves are disloyal ","Who knows that Luo Guanzhong's harm is so extreme "(there is a saying that The Water Margin was written by Luo Guanzhong seventy times ago, so Jin and Yu both respected and belittled it).

And then wrote a book arguing that "future generations in the world will understand the difference between loyalty and loyalty, and they can't borrow it at all!" Therefore, Song Jiang and others are hated in the book, and almost all the people on the Water Margin have no good end.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Dangkouzhi