How many heroes have been created in Water Margin?

The Water Margin created the heroic image of 108.

The book takes the occurrence and development of peasant uprising as the main line, and describes the whole process from individual awakening to small-scale joint resistance, and then to developing into a grand peasant uprising team through the different experiences of each protagonist being caught up with Liangshan.

It shows the inevitable law of "officials forcing the people to rebel" in the peasant uprising in feudal times, shapes the group image of the peasant uprising leaders, and profoundly reflects the political situation and social contradictions in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

On the side of the oppressed, the author praised the just actions of the leaders of the peasant uprising to rob the rich and help the poor, eliminate violence and quell chaos, and affirmed their revolutionary spirit of daring to resist and struggle. Song Jiangyuan is a brave man who used his quick wits to help the poor. When he was driven to Liangshan, he strengthened the prestige of the rebels and won a series of victories.

However, due to the duality of his personality and the limitations of his thoughts, he chose to compromise and win over when the uprising reached its peak, and finally ruined the uprising. Through the failure of Sung River uprising, the novel objectively summarizes the experience and lessons of the failure of peasant uprising in feudal times.

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The artistic achievement of Water Margin;

The reason why Water Margin has become an influential work in the history of China literature lies not only in its rich ideological content, but also in its artistic maturity. The Water Margin inherits and develops the excellent traditions of realism and romanticism, and integrates them.

The artistic achievement of Water Margin is most prominently reflected in the creation of heroes. The great historical theme of the book is mainly manifested in the praise of the uprising heroes and the description of their struggle. Therefore, the success of heroic image-building is an important factor for the works to have brilliant artistic life. In Water Margin, there are at least twenty typical images with distinct personalities, which are lifelike and lifelike.

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