The main content of the fifty-eighth chapter of Water Margin can be summarized as follows: The three mountains get together to fight the Qingzhou tiger and return to the water with one heart.

Chapter 58: Men from Taohua Mountain, Baihu Mountain and Erlong Mountain jointly attacked Qingzhou City and sent people to Liangshan for help. After Liangshan came, he discussed ways to attack the city and break the enemy. The next day, Song Jiang, Wu Yong and Hua Rongdao came to Qingzhou for investigation. Hearing this, Hu led 100 fighters to chase him. He was accidentally trapped and agreed to surrender.

A dozen leaders came to the gate and said that they had stolen a horse with their own soldiers and brought him back. Qingzhou magistrate ordered the gate to be opened wide, and Huyanzhuo led a dozen leaders to kill Qingzhou magistrate, and Kaesong surrendered. Sanshan troops surrendered to Liangshan, packed their supplies and went to Liangshan together.

Another day, Lu and Song Jiangdao invited their former friends Zhu Wu, Yang Chun and Shi to go up the mountain, and Song Jiang told him to go down the mountain. He didn't trust, and sent Shen Xing Taibao Dai Zhong to follow closely. And Lu has reached Shaohua Mountain, where he met Zhu Wu, Yang Chun, but he didn't see Shi Jin. Later, I heard that Shi Jin was framed and imprisoned, and the cottage would be swept away.

So, a group of people discussed ways to save lives. Want to go back to the mountain for help, Lu Zhishen impatient, want to kill He Taishou directly to save Shi Jin. But they have no choice. Lu immediately took the mord and Buddhist monk's knife to find the satrap. Unexpectedly, he ran into the satrap and was found by the satrap. He got the knife and staff and was taken away by the satrap.

Taking the occurrence and development of peasant uprising as the main line, the data book describes the whole process from individual awakening to small-scale joint resistance to grand peasant uprising team through the different experiences of each hero 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.

The story begins with the rise of Gao Qiu, which is intended to show that Gao Qiu is the representative of the feudal ruling group. The author also wrote a large number of corrupt officials and local bullies. It is they who collude with each other and fish the people, forcing the kind and upright people to take risks and rise up.

At the same time, the novel also describes the peasant rebels in tian hu, Wangqing, Fang La and other areas to a certain extent, and deeply digs into various social phenomena and problems in feudal times from the breadth and depth, as well as the deep-seated reasons of peasant uprisings.

The reason why Water Margin has become an influential work in the history of China literature lies not only in its rich ideological content, but also in its artistic maturity. The Water Margin inherits and develops the excellent traditions of realism and romanticism, and integrates them.

The artistic achievement of Water Margin is most prominently reflected in the creation of heroes. The great historical theme of the book is mainly manifested in the praise of the uprising heroes and the description of their struggle. Therefore, the success of heroic image-building is an important factor for the works to have brilliant artistic life. In Water Margin, there are at least twenty typical images with distinct personalities, which are lifelike and lifelike.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Water Margin