Immigrating to China

Yan Shun and Liu Tang are authentic Han Chinese. Why are they all red hair? Ladies and gentlemen, this question mentions two people. Let's take Liu Tang as an example to talk about this problem. In the three versions of TV series, namely, the Shandong version of Water Margin, the CCTV version of Water Margin and the new version of Water Margin, Liu Tang, who initiated the robbery of the birth class, was portrayed as a red hair. However, if you read the original novel Water Margin, you will find that this is not the case. In the thirteenth episode "The Red-haired Ghost Drunks the Lingguan Hall, and the King of Heaven recognizes the righteousness of Dongxi Village", we can see that the image of Liu Tang is like this: there is a scarlet birthmark next to the sideburns, but it does not mean that the hair is red.

Liu Tang described himself as a "red-haired ghost" because of this "cinnabar story". Because of the influence of TV series, many people who are not familiar with Water Margin think that Liu Tang, the red-haired ghost, is a ghost with red hair, and some researchers even play this role. They think that Classical sent Liu Tang to thank Song Jiang with 100 pieces of gold, with the intention of pulling Song Jiang into the water-for fear that others would not know that the robbers went down the mountain-and sent a red-haired man to find Song Jiang. However, seeing Liu Tang's original image, this theory is self-defeating.

Liu Tang is called "red-haired ghost", and there is still an evolutionary process in history. At first, I didn't call it that nickname. I called it "feet and eight legs." There are two earliest records of the thirty-sixth day of Water Margin: The Legacy of Xuanhe in the Great Song Dynasty and The Praise of Thirty-six People in Sung River. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Liu Tang was one of the thirty-six leaders of Song Jiang's subordinates and was recorded as a "red-haired ghost". At the same time, in Gong Kai's "Song Jiang Thirty-six People Praise", Liu Tang is also among them, praising him as "the short of a general, and you call him a prince." Aren't you a husband? These legs are eight feet long. "

In other words, Liu Tang's nickname in the book is "shakuhachi". "Red hair ghost" and "feet and eight legs" are not related in content, and it is hard to say which comes first, but these two words are homophonic, so is it possible that Liu Tang's nickname changed from "feet and eight legs" to "red hair ghost" because of the homophonic relationship in the spread of Liangshan story? The story of the Water Margin is still circulating. The "red-haired ghost" defeated the "eight-legged ghost" and finally settled in the novel "Water Margin". Liu Tang is so, so is Yan Shun.