What are the personality characteristics of the main characters in Water Margin?

1, Song Jiang: modest and prudent, generous with money; He was brilliant, with superb organizational and management skills and military talents, and created a vigorous career as a water margin. But Song Jiang's character is contradictory, loyalty is his true colors, and serving the country is his belief. He regarded the uprising as a political means to realize his life ideal, and enlisted in the army as the most satisfactory destination for the rebel army. His thoughts are directly related to the success or failure of Liangshan.

2, Wu Yong: calm, resourceful, well-informed, familiar with the six towers and three strategies, resourceful, often compared to Zhuge Liang, the road number "Mr. Jia Liang", known as "intelligent and multi-star."

3. Lin Chong: Compromise and be quiet. However, after going to Liangshan, he became fearless, honest and loyal, intelligent and brave, and made great contributions to Liangshan.

4. Song Wu: Strong-willed, brave, cautious and loyal. However, he was framed by Zhang Dujian and almost died.

5. Yan Qing: Smart, chivalrous, calculating, able to play and sing, is a rare talent in Liangshan.

6. Lu: Love and hate are clear, go forward bravely, help the poor and help the poor, and hate evil. And crude and refined, still waters run deep, eyes see farther than anyone, he knew that there would be no good end after wooing, and finally sat down with Hangzhou Liuhe Temple after Fang La joined the army.

The Water Margin, one of China's four classical novels, is a chapter-by-chapter novel with the Sung River Uprising as the main story background at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, which belongs to a heroic legend in genre. The author or editor is generally regarded as Shi Naian, and most of the existing periodicals have one or two people, Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong.

The book describes the great story of Liangshan hero's resistance to oppression, the growth of Liangshan in Shui Bo and his surrender to the imperial court, as well as the repression of political forces such as Fox, Wang Qing and Fang La who opposed the Song government the day after tomorrow, which finally led to tragic failure. It artistically reflects the whole process of the Sung River Uprising from its occurrence, development to failure in China history, profoundly reveals the social roots of the uprising, enthusiastically praises the uprising heroes' resistance and social ideals, and specifically reveals the internal historical reasons for the failure of the uprising.

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.

Shi Naian sorted out and processed the stories and characters in Water Margin, and faithfully accepted the views of the people in the process of writing Water Margin, which is the ideological basis for the great achievements of Water Margin.

The description of wooing An in Water Margin once had a negative influence on some rebel leaders. For example, Zhang was caressed in Gucheng, which means "dedicating himself to the royal family and benefiting the Song River Water Margin" (Chronicle). But comparatively speaking, the positive influence of Water Margin on peasant uprising is still the main one.

Groups of insurgents used Water Margin as a textbook for the uprising, drawing strength from it and holding high the banner of armed struggle. According to the existing records, the influence of Liangshan heroes on the rebels can be seen from the fourteenth year of Wanli (1586). Especially in the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, the slogan of the hero of the Water Margin was widely written on the banner of the peasant army, and many rebel leaders copied the name or nickname of the Water Margin, which became a great spectacle in the history of peasant uprising in China.

Later, in the Qing Dynasty, it was not uncommon for rebels to use the banner of Water Margin. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Heaven and Earth Society, the Knife Society and the Boxer Rebellion were all influenced by the Water Margin. In the history of China's novels and even the whole history of China literature, no works can be compared with it.

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Water Margin-Baidu Encyclopedia