Is Dajuan who touches the sky in Water Margin because he is tall?

Among the first three champions of Water Margin (Wang Lun, Du Qian and Song Wan), Du Qian is the second person after Wang Lun, but his skill is mediocre, so there are few stories in Water Margin. In addition to Lin Chong's opposition to Wang Lun's jealousy when he went up the mountain, which played a positive role in the establishment of Liangshan's inheritance, Du Qian was just a walk-on role. Liangshan ranked eighty-three in Juyi, and was supposed to be a demon star, whose duty was to be a general. Fang La Zhongshi was killed in Qingxi County, chasing Yi Jielang. It's just that Du Qian's nickname is a mystery that has been ignored, but it's puzzling.

There is no Du Qian's name in Gong Sheng's Song Jiang 36 Zan, which shows that Du Qian has not appeared in the Water Margin story in Song Dynasty. Du Qian's name first appeared in the posthumous works of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty. He is the second from the bottom, and his name is "Touch the Cloud Du Qian", and there is no activity. In Water Margin, Du Qian's name is "Touching Heaven Du Qian". "Touching the clouds" and "touching the sky" are obviously synonyms, and the glyphs are wrong. So what does this nickname mean?

Literally, "touching the sky" means being so high that you can almost touch the sky with your hands. Du Qian was portrayed as a tall man in the past "Water Margin" comics and recent TV series, which is based on this meaning. But this nickname has its inherent meaning and allusions.

The allusion of "touching the sky" comes from the story of Deng Sui, the queen of Deng in the later Han Dynasty. According to the story, after the death of Deng Xun, the father of Queen Deng, Deng Sui cried day and night. For three years, he was haggard and disfigured, and his relatives dared not recognize him. Then one day, I dreamed that I was "swaying in the sky, and if there were bell-shaped breasts in my youth", I opened my mouth on my back and drank it into my intestines, asking the fortune teller about the dream. A fortuneteller said that Yao dreamed of going to heaven to make soup, dreaming of heaven and whispering. These are the places where the Holy King used to live. They are very prosperous. Another photographer was surprised to see Deng Sui and said, "This is Tang's face!"

The family members are secretly happy to hear these statements, but they dare not say anything. Deng Shuo, Deng Sui's uncle, said, "It's said that if a person saves a thousand lives, his descendants will be rewarded. My brother Deng Xun once made people build rivers and saved thousands of lives, and his family will benefit greatly. " Later, Deng Sui was elected to the palace at the age of sixteen, became a "noble" and later became a queen. Later, "touching the sky" became a symbol of wealth. Du Qian's nickname is "Touching Heaven", which means hoping to get rich. However, his name was written as "Du Qian" in the suicide note of Xuan He in the Great Song Dynasty, which is obviously related to the fact that this allusion saved thousands of lives. And "Du Qian" means promotion, which is also consistent with this allusion. More interestingly, this chronicle records that Queen Deng is a slender beauty, with a length of "seven feet two inches and a good appearance", which is also consistent with Du Qian's height, so Du Qian's figure is related to the story of Queen Deng from body shape to nickname.