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"Water Margin", also known as "Water Margin of Loyalty and Righteousness", is one of the earliest full-length novels written in Chinese literature. It is listed as one of the four great classics in ancient China along with "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West" and "A Dream of Red Mansions". It takes the Songjiang Uprising that occurred in the late Northern Song Dynasty as its theme, vividly tells the process and results of the uprising in pure vernacular, and successfully creates the image of a large number of heroes and heroes, becoming a glorious example of ancient heroic legends. When Jin Shengtan, a famous literary critic in the early Qing Dynasty, evaluated traditional classics, he once ranked "Water Margin" with "Zhuangzi", "Li Sao", "Historical Records", Du Fu's poems and "The Romance of the West Chamber", and called it "The Book of Six Talents", which shows its high artistic achievements.