The Main Contents of Chapter 39 of Water Margin

The main content is that after many days of rest in the camp, Song Jiang went out to look for Dai Zhong, but went out of the city to Xunyang Building, drank and ate by himself, and wrote two poems on the wall drunkenly. This was just discovered by Huang Wenbing, a judge of Wuwei Army. He informed the magistrate of Cai Jiu, and the magistrate immediately ordered the arrest. After Dai Zhong knew it, he let Song Jiang pretend to be crazy and escaped this robbery, but he didn't know that Huang Wenbing was a very stingy person. He wanted to kill Song Jiang and provoked him several times in front of the magistrate. Magistrate Cai Jiu ordered Sung River to be put to death, and sent Dai Zhong to Tokyo to report to a surname Cai. On the way, Mr. Dai passed by Zhu Gui Hotel for dinner. After searching for medicine, he found a letter, the content of which was to kill Song Jiang. So Dai Zong was led to the water margin by Zhu Gui, and they came up with a plan to teach people to copy letters. Wu used an excuse to pay Xiao Rang (calligrapher) and Jin Dajian (sculptor) to climb the mountain, asking them to join the Water Margin and let Dai Zong carve the inscription, so he began to forge Cai Jing's reply.

A brief introduction to this novel

"Water Margin", also known as Loyalty Water Margin, was written by Shi Naian, a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu, in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. It is one of China's four classical novels. The book describes the story of 108 heroes headed by Song Jiang in Liangshan Uprising at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. After gathering righteousness, they accepted the appeal and fought everywhere. The Water Margin, written by Shi Naian and edited by Luo Guanzhong, is also one of the most epic works in China literature. This is one of the earliest Zhang Hui novels written in vernacular Chinese in the history of China. There are many versions, which are widely circulated and widely known. It has a far-reaching influence on narrative literature in China and even East Asia. The Water Margin is a novel with the theme of describing the ancient peasant uprising. It vividly depicts the whole process of peasant uprising from its occurrence, development to failure, profoundly reveals the social roots of the uprising, enthusiastically praises the resistance struggle and social ideal of the uprising heroes, and specifically reveals the internal historical reasons for the failure of the uprising.

Two. Brief introduction of the author

Shi Naian 1

Shi Naian (1296 ~ 137 1), formerly known as Yanduan, whose real name is Zhao Rui, Shonago An, and whose nickname is Naian. Writers in the late yuan dynasty and early Ming dynasty. Han nationality, Xinghua, Jiangsu (talking about Qiantang, Zhejiang). Originally from Hailing County, Taizhou, he lived in Shijia Lane outside Nagato, Suzhou, and then moved to Baijuchang, Xinghua County (now Baiju Town, Dafeng City, Jiangsu Province). Smart and studious since childhood, he was admitted as a scholar in the first year of Yuanyanyou (13 14), promoted as a scholar in the first year of Taiding (1324) and admitted as a scholar in the second year (133 1). Yin, who soon served as Qiantang County, was reprimanded by county officials for protecting the poor and resigned and went home.

2. Luo Guanzhong

Luo Guanzhong (about 1330—— about 1400), a famous book with words in the middle, was a novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, and the author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. A native of Taiyuan Prefecture, Bingzhou, Shanxi Province, his main works include the novel Romance of the Popular Three Kingdoms, Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, History of Tang and Five Dynasties, and Biography of Three Demons in Sui Dynasty. Among them, the well-known Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms) is Luo Guanzhong's masterpiece, which has a far-reaching influence on later literary creation. In addition to novel creation, there is also a drama "Zhao Taizu Dragon and Tiger Club".