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水浒传 shuǐhǔzhuàn noun The Water Margin《水浒传》The Water Margin, also known as Outlaws of the Marsh, one of the four great works of Chinese classical literature. There is disagreement over the authorship of the book, although it is generally believed to have been written by Shi Nai'an (施耐庵), who lived at the end of the Yuan and beginning of the Ming Dynasty. The ‘water margin’refers to the edge of the Liang Mountain lake (in Liang Mountain County, present-day Shandong Province). The story relates the exploits of 108 heroic characters, exposing the brutality and corruption of the ruling classes, and the vicissitudes and desires of ordinary people. The idiom ‘bi shang Liangshan’(逼上梁山, ‘be driven to extremities’) derives from the story of the hero Lin Chong and others who fled to the Liang Mountain to rebel against the local authorities. |