In Water Margin, no matter how hard the author tried to pull it into the mode of "loyalty and righteousness" and how many ordinary people's consciousness the story entered during its circulation, the work finally objectively showed a thrilling peasant uprising in China feudal society. Although the main leaders who led this rebel army did not come from farmers and were branded with "loyalty and righteousness" ideologically, it cannot be denied that some of them came from the lower working people such as "farmers and peasants". They have the spirit of "opposing the Great Song Emperor" and the idea of "killing Tokyo to seize the bird seat". More importantly, the basic team of Liangshan Rebel Army is a large number of tenants, farmers and fishermen. This is as pointed out at the end of the seventh cycle: "Make a scene in the Central Plains and change things. Teach the farmer to recite a heart number, and the fisherman will put a flag on the boat. " They rebelled under the pressure of officials, organized armed forces, put forward political slogans, and launched military struggles against the feudal state machine. This clearly stipulates that the basic nature of Liangshan Rebel Army is peasant uprising. From the standpoint of a rebel hero, the author of the novel reveals the basic contradictions in feudal society along the ideas of "top-down chaos" and "rebellion is justified", artistically reproduces the whole process of the occurrence, development and failure of the peasant uprising in ancient China, and sums up some things with regularity. This is very rare and valuable in the whole history of China literature. It is in this sense that Water Margin is a tragic epic of peasant uprising.