"Water Margin" is the first novel I wrote to praise something. What is its theme?

Outlaws of the Marsh is China's first chapter-by-chapter novel praising the peasant uprising. In this paper, the heroic image of 108 is created, which clearly shows the theme of the government forcing the people to rebel.

On the side of the oppressed, the author of Water Margin praised the just actions of the peasant uprising leaders in robbing the rich and helping the poor, eliminating violence and ensuring peace, 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.

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While flaunting loyalty, Water Margin affirmed the power of money, praised an ideal of free life based on full material enjoyment, and showed a strong market consciousness. Classical, Song Jiang, Lu Junyi, Chai Jin and other figures with cohesion and appeal in the novel mainly rely on their wealth and their ability to "help people with wealth". In the traditional Confucian creed of "respecting righteousness and benefit", "righteousness" and "benefit" are often regarded as relative existence; In Liangshan, "righteousness" is realized through "wealth". Without wealth, the cohesion of Song Jiang and others in the group cannot exist.