Young People Reading Water Margin: All Three Volumes

"Water Margin" is a magnificent epic that reflects Chinese social life and heroic legends. It is one of the four classic novels along with "A Dream of Red Mansions", "Journey to the West" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Through vivid artistic description, it reproduces the entire process of the occurrence, development and failure of the peasant uprising headed by Song Jiang in the late Northern Song Dynasty. It depicts the story of how 108 heroes including Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, Song Jiang, Wu Yong, Wu Song, Li Kui, Shi Xiu, Yang Xiong and Lu Junyi were forced to go to Liangshan. It is a personal heroic legend of the Liangshan heroes. Punching Zheng Guanxi, outsmarting Shengchengang, hunting tigers at Jingyanggang, blood spattering on the Lion Tower, going up Liangshan on a snowy night, Yang Zhi selling knives... These stories are very popular and can be said to be a household name, known to all women and children. They have a profound impact on narrative literature in China and even East Asia.