It’s all about fighting tigers, so why is it that Wu Erlang is talked about and Li Kui is forgotten?

Wu Song’s fight against tigers is a story well known to women and children in China, and its popularity is almost as high as common sense. The same Liangshan hero also fought against tigers, and he defeated four tigers. Basically no one knows the story of Li Kui's tiger fight.

Most people are not impressed by the story of Li Kui’s tiger fight. It seems that I have selectively forgotten. What is going on? Let’s analyze it from four aspects.

(1) Wu Song killed tigers for the people

For the people may be an exaggeration, but it is true to eliminate harm for the people. The tiger killed thirty or twenty men on Jingyanggang, and there were countless guests passing by. The lawsuit stick is limited to the hunters, but the hunters cannot catch it, so they eat too many sticks.

After Wu Song killed the tiger, the people of Nayanggu County heard that a strong man had killed a big insect on Jingyang Hill. They welcomed him and drank. They all came out to see it, which caused a sensation in the county. When Wu Song was watching from the sedan chair, he saw a lot of people with shoulders stacked on their backs, noisy crowds, and alleys crowded with people, all coming to see the big insect.

Look at the treatment. The sedan is carried to the county and the county magistrate receives it. Then he was promoted to the head of the government, and he was rewarded no matter how big the reward was. He suddenly had a job as a civil servant. Although he may not be in charge, he was still a small official, taking care of people. It can be said that it is the same thing as a festival to comply with the people's wishes and to respond to the official wishes. Everyone is happy.

(2) Li Kui’s tragic experience in fighting a tiger

Carrying his mother back to Liangshan to enjoy his happiness, on the way back, his mother was eaten by a tiger. Such a tragic thing happened to Li Kui. As a result, Li Kui became so angry that he raised his knife to kill the tiger. This tiger is not the tiger that harms people as previously exaggerated. It is the tiger that caused this evil result because of his own negligence and placed his mother in a dangerous and untraveled place.

How to write Water Margin: When Li Kui carried his mother to the foot of the mountain, it was getting late. My mother’s eyes are unclear and she doesn’t know whether it’s morning or evening. Li Kui, however, recognized that this ridge was called Yi Ling. Then what? Li Kui looked at the big bluestone on the ridge next to the pine tree. He put his mother down, stuck a simple knife on the side, and told his mother, "Sit down and I'll find some water for you to eat." Li Kui heard the sound of water in the stream. When he heard the sound, he went to find him and passed two or three foothills.

Deep in the mountains, at night, with his mother blind, Li Kui and his mother were separated by two or three foothills, and tragedy happened. Li Kui put his mother with limited mobility on the mountain and went to find water by himself. This was the root cause of the tragedy. Li Kui was also tired and had to endure the mountains. He did not carry his mother on his back on the two or three foothills where he went to find water.

Before hunting the tiger, he was chased by his brother, who was as panic-stricken as a family dog ??being buried. Not only was there no one to celebrate him after he killed the tiger, but Black Tornado, who was killing people in Jiangzhou, was caught. As a result, he was rescued by the Zhu Gui brothers, two heroes from the Song Jiang faction on Liangshan Mountain.

After returning to the mountain, he should not even have the face to tell all the heroes. Did he have the nerve to say that his mother was eaten by a tiger, and then talk about his feat of killing the tiger? Even if you want to say it, you should cry for your mother first, so why bother talking about killing a tiger?

He is too embarrassed to say it. Are we too embarrassed to remember him? That is too disrespectful to Black Tornado Li Kui!

But the actual situation is that Li Kui returned to Liangshan and said that his mother was eaten, so he killed the tiger. Just these few words passed.

Perhaps when he was truly grieved, it was when he saw the stumps of his mother who was eaten by a tiger, so would anyone mention his tiger attack?

(3) Different difficulties: bare-handed and holding weapons

I remember there is a joke that if a person encounters a gangster holding a dagger, what is the correct way to deal with it? If you It would be wrong to guess what martial arts moves, because the answer is to turn around and run away.

Maybe this is a joke, but it vividly illustrates a problem, the huge difference between having weapons and without weapons. Obviously it hurts when a fist hits you, and it hurts when a knife touches you. But fists don’t count in martial arts novels. I’m talking about normal people in life, and abnormal people don’t count.

Wu Song had a stick at the beginning when he was fighting the tiger, but it broke as soon as he hit the branch. The next step was to fight the tiger with bare hands and press the tiger's head into the soil with his hands. Finally, he relied entirely on his fists and punched the tiger fifty or sixty times, and finally killed the tiger.

And what about Li Kui? He holds a Pu Dao in his hand and a waist knife on his waist. The two tiger cubs were stabbed to death with a simple knife, and the tigress was stabbed to death with a waist knife in the buttocks and in the eye. The Pu Dao cut off the male tiger's trachea. The description is very relaxed, so there is not much written in the description. It's over with three strikes, five divides by two, and there isn't much profound description.

Difficulty! Difficulty! It is more difficult for Wu Song to fight a tiger!

(4) Comparison of the two protagonists

Wu Song is described as the main character in Water Margin. He has many deeds, such as fighting tigers, killing Pan Jinlian, Ximen Qing, Zui Beat up Chiang's door-god and splatter the Yuanyang Tower with blood. These stories are very classic stories in Water Margin. Objectively, it also plays a propaganda role in the story of Wu Song fighting the tiger. Moreover, Wu Song’s stories are relatively positive.

Comparatively speaking, Li Kui is less described as the protagonist in Water Margin, and is not the protagonist in other chapters.

When writing about Li Kui, there are also many negative descriptions. For example, when he robbed the Songjiang execution ground, he saw people beheaded and killed innocent passers-by indiscriminately. Cruelly killing the little yamen under Zhu Tong's care, and killing all of Hu Sanniang's family, even though Hu Sanniang's brother had surrendered, were all cruel and unreasonable.

The impression given by Li Kui is lackluster except for his loyalty to Song Jiang, which is worthy of praise. Even this loyal person was used by Song Jiang in the end and was poisoned to death by Song Jiang before his death.

Another difficulty is that Wu Song’s fight against the tiger is deeply memorable. That is, Wu Song was drunk at the time. He was lying on a stone at that time and was attacked at that time. The book describes that Wu Song was so shocked that he broke into a cold sweat after drinking. Then he started to fight the tiger, and Li Kui took a knife to seek revenge on the tiger. One is prepared and focused, the other is unprepared and passive.

Everyone knows the famous drunken masters, but if you are really drunk, if you try it, your whole body will become weak. So Wu Song drank eighteen bowls of wine in a row before going up the mountain in Jingyanggang. Far breaking the record of failing to serve in three bowls. These descriptions are one of the reasons why people are so impressed by the subsequent tiger hunt.