On the main artistic achievements of Water Margin (short, 100 words)

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.

The structure of Water Margin is a crisscross compound structure. The whole process of the occurrence, development and failure of Liangshan Uprising runs through the whole article, including the story of the main characters being relatively independent and self-contained. These stories are not only open and closed in structure, but also have their own characteristics, which are an organic part of the whole water margin story.

The unique structure of Water Margin is the concrete embodiment of the "speaking" characteristics of folk artists. Associated with it is the water margin language, which is refined on the basis of the spoken language of the masses and retains the advantages of spoken language of the masses. It has the characteristics of washability, vividness, strong color and strong modeling.

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Creation background

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the story of Liangshan heroes was widely circulated. At that time, Gong Kai, a painter and writer, wrote a preface to the praise of thirty-six people in Song Jiang, saying: The stories of thirty-six people including Song Jiang have spread all over the streets; Painters also write pictures and shadows for them.

The earliest blueprint of Water Margin is the legacy of Xuanhe in Song Dynasty, which focuses on the main characters such as Yang Zhi selling knives, Chao Gai ganging up to grab the birth outline, Song Jiang killing and Lin Chong, jy, and He Lu. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, there were many stories adapted from Water Margin. In Yuan Zaju, the number of Liangshan heroes increased from 36 to 108.

The influence of the work

The Water Margin is the first vernacular novel in the history of China. As a new style, it has since established its due position in the field of literature, and began to gradually change the face of the literary world with poetry as its authenticity.

From the perspective of novel creation, together with Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it laid the national form and style of China's ancient novels, which were loved by the broad masses of the people and formed the unique aesthetic psychology and appreciation habits of the Chinese nation.

But closer to life than the romance of the Three Kingdoms. The author began to pay attention to ordinary society, daily trivia and ordinary characters, paid attention to depicting the hierarchy and fluidity of characters, and skillfully used vernacular Chinese, which promoted the development of China's ancient novel art in many ways.

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