Dang Kouzhi, also known as Water Margin, is a book written by 108 as the villain.

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Qing Yu Wan Chun wrote seventy times "Dangkou Zhi" to conclude it, also known as "Water Margin". This book, written after Jin Shengtan's comment on Seventy Chapters of the Water Margin, is a book that stands on the opposite side of the original works in the water margin series ("standing on the opposite side" means that at least on the surface, Liangshan 100 will be written as a "villain", and similar novels include later "The Water Margin" and "Thief Three Kingdoms").

Because the author was born before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising in the Qing Dynasty, domestic thieves emerged. The author felt that China was being overrun by thieves at that time, so he hated thieves and said, "Since I am loyal to the monarch, I will never be a robber."

Thieves are unfaithful ","Who knows that Luo Guanzhong's harm is so extreme "(it is said that The Water Margin was written seventy times ago and continued by Luo Guanzhong after seventy times, so Jin and Yu both respected giving and belittled Luo), and then wrote a book to make" later generations understand the distinction between loyalty and loyalty of thieves, and they are not allowed to 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. However, there are also views that "Dangkou Zhi" actually uses "Qubi" to praise the works of "Water Margin", and Yu Wanchun is a hardcore water margin fan (this is clearly stated in Yu's own readme).

There is a lot of "self-satire" in Dangkou Zhi, and its theme is actually the same as the version of Water Margin before decapitation. In addition, most of the characters of Jiang Lei portrayed in Dangkou Zhi are too rigid and controversial, even less successful than the "villain" image of Liangshan hero in the book. All these make this novel feel tangled.

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The main plot of Dangkou Zhi is to tell Hugh Guan Ying that Chen Xizhen and Chen Liqing's father and daughter were persecuted by Gao Qiu and his son, but instead of "becoming an outlaw", they put up with humiliation and killed the rebels to clear themselves of the crime. The writing of Dangkou Zhi is that the author consciously stands in the reactionary position of maintaining feudal rule.

Deliberately suppress the people ideologically to cooperate with violent repression. Respecting the king and destroying the enemy and maintaining feudal rule are the main themes of the novel. The author has been committed to this, bleak management, spare no effort. The author endowed gods and officials with superior skills and wisdom.

At the same time, the heroes who tried to vilify and vilify the peasant uprising were "vulnerable", "murderers and arsonists". However, it is concise and fluent in writing, describing the persecution of Chen Liqing, and it also has true feelings, layout of writing, language creation and setting, which is quite ingenious and has certain merits in art

But from the details, the good and evil between the Liangshan hero and the rogue "Jiang Lei" in Dangkou Zhi is not so clear. Many words and deeds of "Jiang Lei" are often self-contradictory, and the author also implicitly praises Liangshan heroes from time to time, which makes the tendency of the book more complicated.

Therefore, some people think that "Dangkou Zhi" is actually praising the works of "Water Margin" with "Qubi", and Yu Wanchun is a hardcore water margin fan. There is a lot of "self-satire" in Dangkou Zhi, but its theme is actually the same as the version before the beheading of Water Margin. On the surface, Yu Wanchun wrote Dangkou Zhi to vilify Liangshan heroes, but in fact, he sang praises to the Water Margin through "self-uglification".

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