The main characters of the fourth chapter of the Water Margin, their nicknames and personalities

Lu Zhishen. Nickname: Flower Monk.

Personality: love and hate, righteousness and courage, help the needy, jealousy and hatred, bold and careful, generous, righteous and wealthy;

Zhou Tong, nickname: Little Overlord, personality: brave, sensible, not a muddy person, has his own principles for doing things, but also has a certain degree of flexibility, has a bearing, is willing to make friends with heroes, does not hold grudges;

Li Zhong, nickname: Tiger General, personality: cautious, stingy.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, the heroic stories of Liangshan were widely circulated. At that time, the painter and writer Gong Kai's "Song Jiang 36 People Praise and Preface" said: The story of Song Jiang and other 36 people has spread all over the streets and alleys; Painters also painted their figures.

The earliest blueprint of "Water Margin" is the Song people's "Xuanhe Legacy", which focuses on describing Yang Zhi's sale of knives, Chao Gai and other gangs to rob the Shengchengang and Song Jiang's killing of Yan Poxi, etc., and also describes Lin Chong, Li Kui, Wu Song, Lu Zhishen and other major characters. On the occasion of the Song and Yuan dynasties, there were still many scripts based on the story of the Water Margin. In the Yuan miscellaneous drama, the heroes of Liangshan have grown from 36 to 108.

Shi Nai'an sorted out and processed the stories and characters about the Water Margin, and faithfully accepted the people's views in the process of creating "Water Margin", which is the ideological basis for the great achievements of "Water Margin". [7]

**Drawn. The completion of the book "Water Margin" is based on the story of the Songjiang Uprising in the late Northern Song Dynasty. According to "The Biography of Hou Meng in the Eastern Capital": "Jiang ran rampant in Heshuo with 36 people, and tens of thousands of Jingdong officials and troops did not dare to resist. ”[7]

According to the "History of the Song Dynasty: Huizong Benji": "Huainan robbed Song Jiang and others committed the Huaiyang army, sent generals to arrest them, and committed Jingdong and Hebei, entered the border of Chu and Haizhou, and ordered Uncle Zhang of Zhizhou to surrender at night." "The Night Biography of Uncle Zhang in the History of the Song Dynasty":

The Song River started from Heshuo, and the ten counties were omitted, and the officials and soldiers did not dare to infuse their fronts. The claim is coming, and the uncle's night envoy is looking at the direction, and the thieves are on the verge of the sea, robbing more than ten boats, and capturing them. So he recruited thousands of dead soldiers, set up an ambush near the city, and sent out light troops to lure the battle from the sea, first hid the strong soldiers by the seaside, waited for the troops, raised fire and burned their boats, the thieves heard that they had no fighting spirit, ambushed the soldiers, captured their deputy thieves, and the river was surrendered.

In addition, Li Yun's "Outline of the Ten Dynasties", Chen Jun's "Chronicle of the Nine Dynasties" in the Song Dynasty, and Xu Mengxin's "Three Dynasties and Northern Alliances" also have similar records. There are also records that Song Jiang participated in the battle of Fangla after his surrender. From these records, it can be known that this rebel army was not many in number (but by no means more than 36 people), but it was very strong in combat effectiveness, and it was very influential among the masses, and once posed a certain threat to the Song Dynasty.

The Song Jiang and other uprisings were from the first year of Xuanhe (1119) to the third year of Xuanhe (1121), more than three years before and after. [8]

The twenty-second chapter of "Water Margin": Yan Po made trouble in Yuncheng County, and Zhu Tongyi explained Song Gongming.

Character: Zhu Tong's character image: This horse soldier is surnamed Zhu Mingtong, eight feet four or five long, with a tiger beard, one foot five inches long, Feng Hong's face is like a heavy jujube, his eyes are like a star, and he looks like Guan Yunchang.

Appearance character nickname: Beautiful bearded man Content summary: Tang Niuer misplaced Song Jiang.

Arrested and sent to the officer. Zhang Wenyuan and Yan Po asked the magistrate to arrest Song Jiang's father and brother Song Qing to become officials, but the magistrate refused on the grounds that Song Jiang had been expelled from the household register. Zhang Wenyuan instigated Yan Po to go to the county government to make trouble, and the county had no choice but to send Zhu Tong and Lei Heng to Songjiazhuang to search.

It turned out that Song Jiang had been hiding in the cellar of his father's house after killing Yan Poxi, and was discovered by Zhu Tong, who came to search, and Zhu Tong let Song Jiang go with his personal friends. Zhiyin instructed the county to exonerate Song Jianxinjiang and distribute Tang Niu'er. Zhu Tong also secretly dealt with the incident and calmed down the incident.

Song Jiang went to Chai Jin Zhuang for refuge and was warmly welcomed by Chai Jin. Song Jiang inadvertently had a dispute with Wu Song, and the two became close friends through Chai Jin's mediation.