Song Wu was the first to object. The main opponents are, jy, Lu and the former subordinates of Chao Gai, belonging to the pure rebellious hero group with no official position and no background before.
Li Kui jy and others from the bottom of society are firmly opposed to different attitudes towards Wu. Wu Yong, a feudal scholar, advocated conditional wooing; The vast majority of generals from the official army are eagerly looking forward to wooing them. This different attitude can be completely based on their respective identities and experiences.
Taking the occurrence and development of peasant uprising as the main line, this book describes the whole process from individual awakening to small-scale joint resistance and then to the grand peasant uprising team through the different experiences of heroes being caught up with Liangshan, shows the inevitable law of peasant uprising in feudal times, shapes the group image of peasant uprising leaders, and profoundly reflects the political situation and social contradictions in the late Northern Song Dynasty.
On the side of the oppressed, the author praised the just actions of the leaders of the peasant uprising to rob the rich and help the poor, eliminate violence and quell chaos, and affirmed their revolutionary spirit of daring to resist and struggle. Song Jiangyuan is a brave man who used his quick wits to help the poor. When he was driven to Liangshan, he strengthened the prestige of the rebels and won a series of victories. However, due to the duality of his personality and the limitations of his thoughts, he chose to compromise and win over when the uprising reached its peak, and finally ruined the uprising. Through the failure of Sung River uprising, the novel objectively summarizes the experience and lessons of the failure of peasant uprising in feudal times.
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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.
References:
Water Margin-Baidu Encyclopedia