Water Margin: up and Down (Reading Guide for Primary and Secondary School Students)

"Water Margin" takes the occurrence and development process of the peasant uprising as the main line. Through the different experiences of the heroes who were forced to go to Liangshan, it describes their entire process from individual awakening to small-scale joint resistance to the development of a grand peasant uprising team. It shows the inevitable law of peasant uprisings in the feudal era of "officials forcing people to rebel", shapes the group image of peasant uprising leaders, and profoundly reflects the political conditions and social contradictions in the late Northern Song Dynasty.