One of the most vivid characters in Water Margin.

In addition to Tokyo, Water Margin also describes Daming Mansion in Beijing and Jiankang Mansion in Nanjing, as well as Dongping Mansion, Jiangzhou, Weizhou, Tai 'an Mansion, Shaanxi, Huazhou, Jizhou, Dengzhou, Mengzhou, Cangzhou, Yanmen County, Yuncheng County, yanggu county, Qingfeng Town and Jieyang Town. They're like. Most of the important plots in Water Margin happened in towns: punching in Kansai Town, in Weizhou; Mistaken into the White Tiger Hall, selling knives to kill cattle two, in Tokyo; Anger to kill Yan Poxi, cangue Bai Xiuying, in Yuncheng; Fight Ximen Qing, in Yanggu; Blood spattered on the mandarin duck building, in Mengzhou; Xunyanglou anti-poetry, in Jiangzhou; Make a scene in Cuiping Mountain in Jizhou; Kill Yin Tianxi, in Gaotangzhou; Wisdom makes jade unicorn, in Beijing, and so on. The novel's description of the local conditions and customs of urban market towns is extremely true and full of artistic interest.

"Yan Qing meets Daojun on a moonlit night" is a great event. First, the colorful song "A new warbler is singing at the beginning, with melodious sounds" attracted the official, and then they learned their true feelings from a sad song "Minzi Yulan" and were pardoned, saying: "Sung Jiang and his gang, under the banner of" doing justice for heaven "and in the name of" loyalty ",dared not invade the state capital, refused to disturb the good people, and were single. When Yan Qing dared to meet the emperor for the first time, he made a very general statement about the purpose of the Water Margin, listed the misdeeds of Gao Qiu and Tong Guan one by one, and accomplished the tasks entrusted to him by Song Jiang and Wu Yong very well, showing his qualities of courage, knowledge, wit and courage.

In a word, the image of Yan Qing in Water Margin is a truly artistic image with personality, which is completely cultivated from the soil of life-the social life of the citizen class. Yan Qing is not only an ideal hero of the citizens, but also a realistic hero who is truly branded as a citizen class and deeply admired by the citizens. Yan Qing's successful characterization is one of the great artistic achievements of "writing for the common people" in Water Margin.