Song Jiang's hometown photo
Yuncheng County can be said to be the birthplace of the Water Margin story, because several heroes in Liangshan came from here, not just the hometown of Song Jiang. It is said that there are 72 in total, so there has always been a saying in the local area that "there are 100 single-riding generals in Liangshan and 72 in Yuncheng". However, according to the data, this sentence is exaggerated. In fact, there are only six Liangshan heroes in Yuncheng County: Song Jiang, Song Qing brothers, Wu Yong, Zhu Tong, Lei Heng and Bai Sheng. But of course, in addition to these six, there is also a hero who belongs to Liangshan, but he is not among the 108 generals. He is the king of classical music.
A classical, a sung river, liangshan two castellans and leaders, needless to say, the position in liangshan. Wu Yong, the star of intelligence, ranks third in Liangshan, 12th in Zhu Tong, 25th in Lei Heng, 76th in Song Qing and 106th in Bai Sheng. Among these five people, except Song Qinghe, who is superior to his eldest brother, and Bai Sheng, a useless loafer, the top three are ranked in the 36th highest day, with a high status. From the position of these seven Yuncheng people in Liangshan, we can see the importance of Song Jiang's hometown Yuncheng to the Water Margin.
In addition, a very important story in the early stage of the novel also happened in Yuncheng County, which is to outwit the birth class. Up to now, there is still a stone tablet erected on the Huangnigang site, which records the incident in detail.
According to the description in the Water Margin, Song Jiang is from Songjia Village, Yuncheng County, Shandong Province, which means that Yuncheng County, Heze City, Shandong Province is now Song Jiang's hometown. In addition, many Liangshan heroes, such as Chao Gai and Wu Yong, also came from there, and this is also the place where they outwit the birth class, so Yuncheng County is considered to be the birthplace of Liangshan stories.
Photos of Songjiang Wushu School
Yuncheng county has a long history. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, it was founded as Yuncheng. But it is really famous here because of the help of Liangshan heroes. There has always been a saying that there are "108 Liangshan heroes and 72 Yuncheng" and it is known as "the hometown of heroes in China". At present, the local area has been developing the water margin culture as its own tourism brand.
Yuncheng County not only retains the hometown sites of famous people such as Songjia Village, Dongxi Village and Wu Yong's hometown, but also retains some sites where important plots took place in The Water Margin, such as Huangnigang, where the birth class was outwitted, Zengtoucheng, where the classical died, and some tourist attractions related to The Water Margin, such as Xuan Nv Temple and Lingguan Hall. In addition, a Water Margin Cultural City was built to promote itself and develop tourism.
It is said that Yuncheng county has always been martial, so it can produce so many heroes. Now the local 1985 has built a Song Jiang martial arts school, which is now a famous martial arts school in China. The school includes 50 liberal arts classes in primary school, junior high school and senior high school, as well as 60 martial arts classes in Sanda, boxing, martial arts routines, taekwondo and karate. The school not only enrolls students from all provinces in China, but also many foreign students. So far, Songjiang Wushu School has won thousands of medals in major international, national and provincial competitions.
Song Jiang in history is not only a character in novels, but also a character in history, but there is not much introduction to him. Historical records about Song Jiang only existed in the peasant uprising in the Song Dynasty. Song Jiang was also the leader of the peasant uprising in history, but the number was not as much as that written in the novel.
Song Jiang's Ancient Portrait
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, centralization was highly centralized, the oppression of the people by the ruling class was increasing day by day, industry and commerce were developed, and social contradictions were sharp, which led to peasant uprisings. There were countless small-scale uprising groups with dozens and hundreds of people. 1 1 19 was the first year of Song Huizong xuanhe. This year, Song Jiang pulled up 36 people and raised the banner of the uprising. At first, this rebel army was only active in the area north of the Yellow River, specializing in robbing the rich and helping the poor, which made the powerful people panic. Hui Zong ordered the destruction of these 36 people, but the army's fighting capacity was very weak due to the policy of emphasizing literature and restraining martial arts and officials in the Song Dynasty. As a result, the anti-bandit troops not only did not destroy the 36 people of Sung River, but made Sung River's team famous.
Sung river's team is getting bigger and bigger, and he started to move around, but he didn't occupy Liangshan, Shui Bo, and become an outlaw as described in the novel. Song Jiang is clever and brave. He knew that with his current military strength, it was impossible to confront the imperial army. Therefore, he used his small number to move around and was extremely flexible, which made it difficult for the imperial army to catch them. In addition, Song Jiang's men are all skilled in martial arts, and the small encirclement can also break through quickly.
Later, Fang La, Zhejiang Province also rallied. After weighing the pros and cons, the court decided to woo Sung River, let him lead his men to conquer Fang La, and sent Zhang Shuye to woo him. Sung river is haizhou at this time, ready to siege. At that time, Song Jiang had occupied a great advantage and looted many ships of the imperial court.
When Zhang Shuye arrived in Haizhou, with a genial smile, he ordered people to secretly burn Song Jiang's boat and then ambush the soldiers. Song Jiang fell and was beheaded, so he had to surrender. There are different opinions about his ending in history. Some said they were beheaded by the imperial court, while others said that Fang La was killed by traitors when he came back.
Song Jiang's Height Song Jiang, as the protagonist in the novel Water Margin, can be called an indomitable hero, but this is only a compliment to his moral character, not a description of Song Jiang's height. For Song Jiang, height should also be an inner pain.
Portrait of sung river
When Song Jianggang appeared, he was a black and short man in other people's language description. In another appearance description, Song Jiang's height has clear data: "Six feet". Throughout the novels, there are not many people who indicate their height, some are tall and some are short. Yu Baosi, who is responsible for resisting Qi Shuai, should be the highest among Liangshan heroes. The record is ten feet, and Jade Kirin Lu Junyi is nine feet. Wu Dalang, who is less than five feet tall, and Wang Ying, nicknamed "Short-legged Tiger", are famous for their short stature in the novels. Roughly, sung river is six feet tall, and he can probably enter Liangshan, which shows that sung river is short of height. Therefore, in the novel, Song Jiang loves the BMW with the jade lion shining at night, which is recorded to be eight feet high. As the first place in Liangshan, Song Jiang can't be much shorter than others, so he can only rely on Malay mats.
So, what is Song Jiang's six-foot height? Because the measurement standards of different dynasties in China are different, such as Shang Dynasty, one foot is about 17 cm, so a man who is almost ten feet tall is called "Fu". One foot in Song Dynasty was about 3 1.6cm now. According to this standard, Song Jiang 180 cm is already very high, while Yu Baosi, who is ten feet tall, is more than three meters, which is simply not human. It can be seen that the Water Margin does not describe the height according to this measure. According to the Ming Dynasty when the novelist Shi Naian lived, this is unscientific, because at that time, one foot was 365,438+0 cm.
Therefore, the standard commonly used in the Han Dynasty should still be used in the novel, about one foot and twenty-three centimeters, so Song Jiang's height is about one meter three to one meter four.
Later generations of Song Jiang watched the whole Water Margin. As the protagonist, Song Jiang died without a wife and children. The only one who could have given birth to Song Jiang was his concubine Yan Poxi, but Song Jiang didn't like to kill her later, and there was no record in the book that Yan Poxi was pregnant, so Song Jiang should have no children and no descendants.
Portrait of Song Qing
There should be no descendants of Song Jiang, but that doesn't mean there are no descendants in their family. Song Jiang is called "Kohei Saburo". The so-called "Saburo" means that he is the third son in the family. It can be seen that Song Jiang has two brothers and two younger brothers. Among them, only Song Qing, the younger brother of Song Jiang, appeared in Water Margin. Later, he went to Liangshan with Song Jiang, nicknamed Iron Fan, and was responsible for arranging the banquet in the cottage, ranking 76.
In the novel, Song Jiang was eventually poisoned by wine, but Song Qing didn't die. After being knighted, he still chose to go home to farm and manage Songjiazhuang. After the death of Song Jiang, Song Qing refused to inherit the title and stayed at home. Moreover, it is recorded in the book that he has a son named Song Anping, who later took part in the imperial examination and obtained a bachelor's degree in secretarial science. In the Water Margin written by the Qing Dynasty, Song Anping also married the daughter of the master Xiao Rang, which shows that the blood of the Sung River family is at least continuing.
Today, in Yuncheng County, Shandong Province, or Liangshan area, there are still news reports from time to time that have discovered the descendants of Song Jiang, and some even took out the so-called genealogy with Song Jiang's name clearly written on it. But the news is true or not, at least it can't be the descendants of Song Jiang, only the descendants of his brother. It is said that these descendants said that Song Jiang's other three brothers were Song Huai, Song Han and Song He.
Song Jiang's age, whether it is the real Song Jiang in history or Song Jiang in the novel Water Margin, has no specific record about his birth time. The novel says that he died a few years ago, probably 1 124, but it is still impossible to accurately infer Song Jiang's age.
Song Jiang stills
After outwitting the birth program, when Song Jiang first appeared, he said "thirty years old" in the description, which shows that he was in his thirties at that time. Later, he wrote an anti-poem on Xunyang Building in Jiangzhou, which was circulated among local people. One of them was Thirty-six Longitudinal Poems, which was considered to be about Song Jiang. This shows that he is about 36 years old at this time, which is about 1 1 17. According to this calculation, Song Jiang was only about 44 years old when he died.
Song Jiang was called the most "Gong Ming Brothers" by Liangshan heroes, and even people on rivers and lakes were close to him. But this "brother" doesn't mean that Song Jiang is older than others, just respects him. After all, the "timely rain" to help the poor has a high status in the rivers and lakes. For example, in the description of Lin Chong's appearance, he is 34 or 5 years old, and Lu is his sworn brother, definitely older than him. In addition, there are many very old people in Liangshan, definitely older than Song Jiang. Classical clearly wrote in the novel that he was ten years older than Song Jiang, so Song Jiang was just a younger brother in front of the king.
However, Song Jiang's age is definitely the biggest among Liangshan 108 generals. If you are too young, as a leader, you will give people a feeling of being hairless and not practical, and others will not take him for anything. It can be seen that the general age of Liangshan heroes should be in their thirties, the young in their twenties and the old in their forties.