The book Water Margin is based on the story of Sung River Uprising in the late Northern Song Dynasty. According to the biography of Hou Meng, "Thirty-six people in the river run amok, and tens of thousands of JD.COM government troops dare not resist." ?

According to "History of Song Dynasty Hui Zong", "Song Jiang, a thief from Huainan, and others committed crimes against Huaiyang Army, and sent them to beg for arrest, commit crimes, and enter the border between Chu and Haizhou, so that the prefect Zhang Shuye surrendered them."

Zhang Shuye Biography of the History of the Song Dynasty: "Sung River started in Xinhe and turned to ten counties, so the loyalists dared not take it. When the word came, the uncle sent an envoy to the sea at night, and the thief approached the sea, robbed more than ten giant boats and carried them. So he raised thousands of dead people and ambushed near the city to resist the temptation of light soldiers from the sea. First, he hid by the sea, waited for the soldiers to meet, and then set fire to his boat. Hearing this, the thief had no fighting spirit. He ambushed him and caught his assistant thief. Jiang Nai surrendered. "

In addition, Li Kun's Outline of Ten Dynasties, Chen Jun's Chronology of Nine Dynasties in Song Dynasty and Xu's Compilation of Three Dynasties to the North also have similar records. There are also records that Song Jiang took part in the battle of Fang La after he surrendered.

The literary influence of Water Margin;

The Water Margin is the first vernacular novel in the history of China. As a new style, it has since established its due position in the field of literature, and began to gradually change the face of the literary world with poetry as its authenticity.

From the perspective of novel creation, together with Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it laid the national form and style of China's ancient novels, which were loved by the broad masses of the people and formed the unique aesthetic psychology and appreciation habits of the Chinese nation.

But closer to life than the romance of the Three Kingdoms. The author began to pay attention to ordinary society, daily trivia and ordinary characters, paid attention to depicting the hierarchy and fluidity of characters, and skillfully used vernacular Chinese, which promoted the development of China's ancient novel art in many ways.