Liangshan Rebels were not forced to accept the favor of the ruling class because of despair when the situation was extremely unfavorable to them. On the contrary, they voluntarily surrendered to the ruling class under a series of brilliant victories, including two victories in Tongguan and three defeats in Gao Qiu.
The emergence of this situation is indeed directly related to the thoughts, positions and lines pursued by Song Jiang, the leader of the rebel army. It is also closely related to the loyalty thought advocated by the novel and the writer's world outlook. "Enlightenment" has laid the groundwork in the first 70 stories.
With the development of Liangshan revolutionary cause, a large number of ruling class figures were forced to join the rebel army one after another for one reason or another. Their participation has played a positive role in strengthening the rebels and developing revolutionary forces; But it makes the social and ideological components of the revolutionary ranks very complicated.
This is because most of the purpose of these people going up the mountain is to "temporarily settle in the cottage" and "wait for the future". Their intentions are completely consistent with the desire of Song Jiang, the leader of the rebel army, to "serve the country faithfully" and "hope to woo the country as soon as possible".
In the uprising army, there naturally appeared a compromise capitulator represented by Song Jiang. This route is getting stronger and stronger, occupying a dominant position. Although a few lower-class uprising heroes, such as Lu, Liu and Liu, resisted, they failed to reverse the situation because of their weak strength, which led to the tragic end of this vigorous peasant revolution.
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In the Southern Song Dynasty, the story of Liangshan heroes was widely circulated. At that time, Gong Kai, a painter and writer, wrote a preface to the praise of thirty-six people in Song Jiang, saying: The stories of thirty-six people including Song Jiang have spread all over the streets; Painters also write pictures and shadows for them.
The earliest blueprint of Water Margin is the legacy of Xuanhe in Song Dynasty, which focuses on the main characters such as Yang Zhi selling knives, Chao Gai ganging up to grab the birth outline, Song Jiang killing and Lin Chong, jy, and He Lu. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, there were many stories adapted from Water Margin. In Yuan Zaju, the number of Liangshan heroes increased from 36 to 108.
Shi Naian sorted out and processed the stories and characters in Water Margin, and faithfully accepted the views of the people in the process of writing Water Margin, which is the ideological basis for the great achievements of Water Margin.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Water Margin