There are two versions of Water Margin: the traditional version and the simplified version. The description of numerous books is more delicate, and after the gathering of righteousness, it is the plot of collecting Liao and Fang wax; Simple and complicated, with rough writing, but more than the traditional two plots: Ping tian hu and Wang Qing. Bamboo slips were deeply loved by middle and lower readers in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but they declined rapidly after entering the 20th century and became the research materials of the evolution history of editions.
1, short version
Bamboo slips contain all the plots of Zhao 'an, Liao, Shou, Wang Qing, Fang La and Song Jiang. It is called the simplified version because the text is relatively simple and there are few details. The short books found are:
(1) 1 15 volumes
(2) One hundred copies
(3) 124 copies
2. There are many books.
Many of them are written in detail and are the most widely circulated. There are three main types: 100, 120 and three. However, the main part of rewriting is the story after enlistment.
(1) One hundred copies: After Song Jiang was recruited, there were plots such as "accepting Liao" and "accepting Fang La".
(2) Seventy books: In the Qing Dynasty, Jin Shengtan cut off hundreds of peace talks, ending with the seventy-first book of Lu Junyi's Dream, and then taking the first book as a wedge. This is seventy copies. It is generally believed that only one hundred copies may be the earliest model of the story of Water Margin, and it is also the version closest to the legendary story.
TV series: 5 versions
1, 1972 Zhang Che and others directed the film of the same name.
2, 1976 BBC version of Water Margin
3. 1998 CCTV version of Water Margin
4. In the early 1980s, the Shandong version of Water Margin.
5. The Water Margin directed by Ju Jueliang 20 1 1.
Extended data:
The earliest extant version of The Water Margin is the Loyalty and Righteousness of Kyoto, which was inscribed 100 in the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. The version of Water Margin is very embarrassing. In the process of circulation, different story books appeared. Generally speaking, it can be divided into simplified version and complex version.
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