The secret of "Water Margin" What is the mystery of reading the surnames of the three leaders of Liangshan?The mystery of history is revealed
"Water Margin" is one of China's four famous novels, which was not only selected into middle school textbooks for people to read, but also made into a TV series and entered thousands of households.
People are more familiar with the three leaders of Liangshan in the book, but do you know that behind these three leaders, the author Shi Nai'an actually hides a small heart.
The secret of the surnames of the three chiefs.
The first leader of Liangshan was called Wang Lun, nicknamed Bai Xiucai, narrow-minded, and was the first Lin Chong in Liangshan, which angered Lin Chong, and later caused Wu to kill Lin Chong with a radical method.
Another more famous leader was the loyal and honest Chao Gai.
Chao Gai is called"Pagoda Heavenly King", because he stole the birthday gang that Liang Zhongshu gave to his brother-in-law Cai Jing, he had to be a bandit in Liangshan.
However, not long after Chao Gai's reign, he was killed by an arrow during the attack on Zengtou City, and Song Jiang relented.
Note that the surnames of these three people are read together, and the homophony is exactly the same as that of the Song Dynasty, which is related to the final death of Liangshan, so what exactly does the author think?
Moreover, if you read Song Chao wrong, Song Chao's death will become more obvious, and people can't help but want to say it"It's a big rebellion"。
In "Water Margin", Liangshan was an outcast force during the reign of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, and most of the people who went to Liangshan were enemies in the palace"Death of the Song Dynasty"Together, I can't help but sigh at the author's creativity and pun.
Liangshan was full of quarrels, power struggles, and other Song dynasties, hence the has"Song Dynasty"。This Caucasian version of the Song Dynasty eventually fell, so it can also be understood as"The Song Dynasty perished"。
But what about the real Song Dynasty?
Although Liangshan accepted the pacification of the Song Jiang-led court in the later period, keep in mind that the name of the Liangshan Pavilion in the early period was the Great Hall, not the Zhongyi Hall, and their purpose was to rebel against and overthrow the Song Dynasty.
If the Caucasian version of the Song Dynasty was overthrown, then the real Song Dynasty would also be overthrown by various peasant uprisings, and that is"Death of the Song Dynasty"Another layer of hidden meaning makes people sigh at Shi Nai'an's ability.
Metaphorical evidence – the author's experience.
Some people think that this is an extreme explanation, like the gloomy glint in the eyes of a dead fish in the language questions of the ancient college entrance examination.
Apparently, the author wrote it only because he found it eerie, but the questioner insisted that the examinee write down the author's meaning, and in the end the author broke down, saying that he did not know the answer.
Song Dynasty"with"The Song Dynasty is dead"Is it a coincidence?
Returning to "Water Margin" itself, Shi Nai'an was a native of the Yuan Dynasty in the first half of the author's life, and later became a native of the Ming Dynasty when Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty.
In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers imposed extremely strict laws and regulations on the Han Chinese, causing discontent among the people, and a series of peasant uprisings broke out, including those of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng.
When Zhang Shicheng was against the Yuan, Shi Nai'an was his adviser. Later, Zhang Shicheng was greedy for pleasure and indulged in wine, and Shi Nai'an had to pass away.
After experiencing a period of wild history, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang once asked Shi Nai'an to be his advisor, but Shi Nai'an refused.
Judging from Shi Nai'an's life experience, the story background of "Water Margin" is very similar to that of the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Hence this"Song died"It does not refer to the Song Dynasty, which has long since perished, but to the turbulent Yuan Dynasty when the peasants revolted.
Metaphorical Evidence – Spelling Specification.
If this evidence is not enough, let's take a look at Shi Nai'an's literacy. According to records, Shi Nai'an once saw a bully harassing a woman at a lantern festival and went to teach the bully a lesson.
The next day, the bully brought seven or eight hooligans to retaliate, but Shi Nai'an didn't mind.
He tied his feet with ropes and let the hooligans drag him along. Seven or eight people really couldn't move him, so Shi Nai'an picked up an iron rod and broke a big poplar tree. The hooligans were so frightened that they immediately knelt down and threw in the towel.
This plot is recorded in Shi Nai'an's book, which is the plot of Lu Zhishen teaching bandits in Daxiangguo Temple, but the more famous plot of Wu Song fighting the tiger is also true.
It is said that one day, Shi Nai'an went to Houyanggang behind the village and saw a big yellow dog being driven away by a person named Wu Aer, which was the famous Wu Song fighting tiger.
In addition, the highlight of "Water Margin"."Three dozen Zhujiazhuang", Zhujiazhuang is not actually fictional by the author, it is the real Zhutang City, and most of the place names in the book come from the surrounding areas of Zhutang City.
It is difficult to say that such an author, who likes to draw from reality, will not describe the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Perhaps Gongsun Sheng saw through Song Jiang's hypocrisy, she was the embodiment of Shi Nai'an in the book, corresponding to her disillusionment with Zhang Shicheng and her experience of breaking up with Zhang Shicheng under some pretext.
"Water Margin" is a well-known classic in China. I hope that in the process of reading, we can make new discoveries, discover more subtle metaphors and ironies hidden between the lines of the author.