Shi Naian's Water Margin was written by Shi Naian at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. Like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is also created on the basis of folk stories, scripts and operas. The author Shi Naian lived a little earlier than Luo Guanzhong.
The Water Margin is the first novel describing the peasant uprising. Focusing on the clue of "officials forcing the people to revolt", the book shows the whole process that a group of "heroes" who could not bear the oppression of tyranny rose from the pole and gathered in Liangshan, Shui Bo, until they accepted their demands and led to the failure of the uprising. The most brilliant feature of this novel is that it fully affirmed the peasant uprising that the feudal rulers regarded as "thieves and bandits" and profoundly revealed the social roots of the peasant uprising: that is, ministers such as the emperor and Gao Qiu were tyrannical and incompetent, which led to the poverty of the people and the sharp and gradual deepening of class contradictions.
The Birth of the Monkey King-Journey to the West, Wu Cheng'en
Journey to the West, with the efforts of numerous folk artists and authors, was composed by Wu Cheng'en (15 10? ~ 1582? ) finally finished. The novel begins with seven stories about "making havoc in Heaven", and puts the image of the Monkey King at the top of the book. From the eighth to the twelfth, I wrote the stories of Tathagata, Guanyin becoming a monk, Kevin·Z descending dragons and the birth of Tang Priest, explaining the origin of the scriptures. From 14 to the end of the book, I wrote that the Monkey King was forced to convert to Buddhism to protect the Tang Priest's scriptures, and with the help of Bajie and Friar Sand, he exorcised demons all the way, which became a "positive result" in the Western Heaven.
Biography of Historical Records of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru and Sima Qian.
The story "General Datong" comes from Sima Qian's Historical Records? Biography of Lian Po Lin Xiangru. It consists of three stories: "All Return to Zhao", "Mianchi Meeting" and "Connecting with the Forest" (or "Admit a humble apology").
Borrowing an Arrow from a Grass Boat —— Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the full name of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is also called Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The Three Kingdoms refer to Wei, Shu and Wu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Romance, on the other hand, is a novel genre developed from historical story books, based on historical biography and processed by art. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is not only the pioneering work of Zhang Hui's novel in China, but also the most accomplished and influential work in China's ancient historical romance.
I like Song Wu in Water Margin best.
Song Wu, a word walker, also known as Wu Er, was born in Qinghe, Shandong Province.
When Song Wu was a child, his parents died and he was raised by his brother Wu Dalang. Song Wu studied martial arts since childhood, with high martial arts and a quick personality. Once drunk, he killed a tiger with his bare hands in Jingyanggang, yanggu county, and was appointed as the county magistrate by Yanggu County Magistrate. Song Wu's brother Wu Dalang is a dwarf, and his beautiful wife Pan Jinlian tried to seduce Song Wu, but was rejected. Later, she was seduced by a local rich man, Ximen Qing. They poisoned Wu Dalang after it was exposed. In order to get revenge, Song Wuxian killed Pan Jinlian first and then Ximen Qing, so he was found guilty and exiled to Mengzhou. In Mengzhou, Song Wu was taken good care of. In return, Song Wu beat Jiang Menshen as drunk as a fiddler and helped En Ci recapture the Happy Forest. However, Song Wu was also assassinated by Jiang Menshen in collusion with the government and forced to kill. During his escape, with the help of Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang, he pretended to be a "walker" and practiced with his hair. After Song Wu defected to Erlong Mountain, he became one of the three leaders of the "Rebel Army", and returned to Liangshan when the latter three mountains fought Qingzhou.
(The following is not in the seventieth chapter of this book) In the battle to conquer Fang La, he lost an arm in the plot against Bao. After the pole shift, Song Wu refused to return to Bianjing, became a monk in Liuhe Temple, and died of natural causes (during the invasion of Nomads).