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Lu Ming's column | Mo Xiao looked at Ruan's three Xiongs

Lu Ming's column | Mo Xiao looked at Ruan's three Xiongs

Nguyen Thi SanH" (from left: Nguyen Siu 2, Nguyen Đồng Đồng Đồng

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Ruan's Three Xiongs, referring to Ruan Xiao'er, Ruan Xiaowu, and Ruan Xiaoqi, are the three heroic brothers from Shijie Village to Liangshan Juyi portrayed in "Water Margin". Throughout the novel, there are only three brothers in Ruan's mother's family, and there is no Ruan Boss, Ruan Xiaosan, Ruan Xiaosi, and Ruan Xiaoliu. Presumably the three brothers, just according to some local custom, were arranged in order with their uncles and brothers. As for the three people with the same father and mother, Ruan Xiao'er is the eldest, Ruan Xiaowu is the second oldest, and Ruan Xiaoqi is the third oldest.

Ruan Xiao'er, nicknamed Li di Tai Shi (立地太縣), ranked twenty-seventh in the good han of Liangshan, and fourth in the eight leaders of the water army, and was defeated by the wulongling waterway soldiers during the conquest of Fang La. Nicknamed the short-lived Erlang, Ruan Xiaowu ranked twenty-ninth among the good men of Liangshan and the fifth among the leaders of the eight major water armies. When song jiang was fighting fang la, he was killed by Lou Min in Qingxi County. Ruan Xiaoqi was nicknamed Alive Yan Nian, the thirty-first good man of Liangshan Mountain, and the sixth leader of the eight members of the water army. After being recruited, he was given the title of commander of the Gaitian Army, and was stripped of his official position and demoted to a commoner because of the teasing of wearing Fang La's dragon robe, and returned to Shijie Village with his old mother to fish, and died in his sixties.

The three brothers of the Nguyen clan, each with outstanding martial arts and righteousness, dare to go to the soup for the brothers. Ruan's Sanxiong was the first elder-level figure to follow Chao Gai to join the Liangshan team. At first, Wu Yong persuaded the three ruan brothers to follow Chao Gai and numb Yang Zhi with MengHan medicine in Huangnigang and robbed the birthday gang. Chao Gai and others fled to Liangshan Po to escape the pursuit of the government. When the officers and soldiers pursued, they were beaten by the brothers led by Chao Gai, among which the three Nguyen clans made a great contribution. After going to Liangshan, Nguyen Thi San Xiong, as an important leader of the water army, gave full play to the role of water warfare and made great efforts.

Sam Nguyen is a fisherman and lives a poor life. Although they cultivate the land and live by fishing, according to the division of "soldiers, farmers, workers, and merchants", they should be divided among the peasants, and in them they embody almost all the characteristics of the insurrectionists who are peasants.

They are poor fishermen in remote areas. Saying that they are poor is derived from the text of "Water Margin": Ruan Xiao'er's residence: "There are several small fishing boats on the dry piles, a broken fishing net outside the fence, leaning on the mountains and waters, about a dozen grass houses." Ruan Xiaowu's residence: "The group is all water, and there are seven or eight grass houses on the high port." Nguyen Xiao Wu wore: "wearing a torn turban obliquely" and "wearing an old cloth shirt with a collar". Living in a grass hut and wearing ragged clothes, nature is poor.

Because of their remoteness, they are not afraid of heaven and earth, "the old master grew up in Shijie Village, and he was born to kill people"; because of poverty, their revolutionary spirit is the strongest, "if they know us, they will go in the water and go in the fire"; because they are in the rivers and lakes, they have the brave temperament and righteous spirit of a good man, and the nicknames of "Standing On the Ground too old", "Short-lived Erlang", and "Living Yan Luo" reflect their image. Although at the bottom, they have a clear understanding of the dark corruption of the government: Ruan Xiao'er said, "Now I should be in charge of the lawsuit, I don't know much, it is a mess." If you commit a great sin, you will be fine."

They want to change their lives, but they can't find other ways, and naturally they are hungry for the grass for the way of life of "eating wine in urns, eating meat in large pieces", "on weighing gold and silver, and wearing silk brocade in a different way", and feeling that they "have a skill in the air, how to learn them!" "I always want to have a leader and take them to do something." Wu Yong valued them as "righteous and courageous, outstanding in martial arts, daring to go to the soup and fire, living with death, and the heaviest righteous spirit", so he contacted them to participate in the action of outsmarting the birth anniversary, so that they would henceforth embark on the road of resistance.

The heroism and arrogance of Nguyễn Thiồng San Xiong were vividly demonstrated in the first battle against the government at Shijie Lake: they were mobile and flexible in the lake, and they defeated He Tao's team that came to arrest them. Ruan Xiaoqi scolded He Tao: "You are a stupid worm in Jeju who deceives the people!" I was going to cut your corpse into ten thousand pieces, but I wanted you to go back and say to the thief donkey in charge of the Jeju Prefecture: "The three xiongs of the Nguyen clan of Shijie Village and the Heavenly King Chao Gai of Dongxi Village are not easy to stir up!" I will not come to your city to borrow grain, and he will come to my village to beg for death. He "drew his sharp knife and cut off both of He's ears, dripping with blood."

Ruan Shi Sanxiong was an important leader of the Liangshan Water Army, Ruan Xiao'er participated in the guarding of the southeast water village, Ruan Xiaowu participated in the guarding of the northeast water village, and Ruan Xiaoqi participated in the guarding of the northwest water village. They were representatives of the admirals from the north.

Because they came from the bottom, because they came from a poor background, because they were revolutionary and thorough, they opposed Zhao'an. Ruan Xiaoqi led people to drink the imperial liquor brought by Chen Taiwei and replaced it with "village mash water liquor", and the good men of Liangshan were annoyed that the government teased them, and the activities of recruiting security were not happy. Perhaps, it was not Ruan Xiaoqi and others who were greedy for a cup and drank the imperial wine at will, it was likely that they were deliberately doing it, deliberately letting Zhao An fall apart.

Of course, they also carry the bad habits of some people at the bottom, for example, they gamble. Ruan Xiaowu lost a penny and begged the old mother's head to gamble. Ruan Xiaoqi "also lost red-chestedly".

With the naughtiness of the people at the bottom, they are regarded as ignorant of the law by the likes of gao qi. After defeating Fang La, Ruan Xiaoqi wore Fang La's clothes and hats to make a joke, which showed their simplicity and casualness, and they did not know so many etiquette and exquisiteness.

The three Nguyen brothers are heroes that many people like. In Yuncheng, Shandong, the "Water Margin Renjia" hotel opened by Mr. Tan Baojian has a special "Ruan's Three Xiongs" room.

As for the provenance of San Nguyen, some people say that it is Shimiao Village in Dongping County. They ignored two key points: in the Water Margin, Wu Yong said: "These three are three brothers who live in the village of Shijie in The Bobian of Liangshan, Jeju." Looking at the map of the Northern Song Dynasty, we can see that the stone temple was between Jushouchang, Yanggu and Dong'a at that time, and these three counties belonged to Yunzhou, not Jeju. The word "Jeju" excludes the above two places. Another point is that the so-called Shijie Village is Shimiao Village, which is only a statement that some people have attached in recent decades, because in the 1970s and 1980s it belonged to Liangshan County, not far from Dongping Lake, and the name of the village has stone characters. In fact, there are many villages with stone characters in the name of the village, and Dongping Lake was only formed after the Return of the Yellow River to Shandong during the Qing Xianfeng period, and now it is not far from the lake to represent the Song Dynasty close to Liangshan. The northern edge of liangshan in the Northern Song Dynasty was roughly along the back pier of Liangshan, and at that time, the sixty or seventy miles south of the stone temple were all fertile fields, and there was no water surface. Yuncheng County in the Northern Song Dynasty, on the other hand, had a large area of Liangshan Po level.

It is said that the novelist's statement is not historical fact, and it is not necessary to find the provenance of the characters in the book. However, some people are curious and still want to say why, then it can only be based on the novel, the novel is called Jeju, then it can only be found in the Jeju territory.

At that time, Yuncheng belonged to Jeju and was the only county in jeju northwest of Liangshanpo. In addition to the state rule in the giant wilderness, Jeju also has Jinxiang, Rencheng and other counties, jinxiang, Rencheng direction, and Yuncheng away from the parking distance, Wu Yong will not go around the lake for most of the week to find people. In this way, the village of Seokjeong is in the territory of Jeju Yuncheng County. In this context, saying Yuncheng County and saying Jeju is a concept, just as someone goes to Tongzhou without saying Tongzhou, but saying that they went to Beijing. Go to Yishui without saying Yishui, say go to Linyi.

The most direct and powerful evidence is that in the "Great Song Xuan and Testament", directly named: Shijie Village, Yuncheng County. The Great Song Xuan and Testament is the blueprint for the Water Margin, from which it can be seen that Shijie Village belongs to Yuncheng County, which is certain.

The story of Ruan Xiaoqi was interpreted by later generations. The Water Margin chronicles that he once again joined the rebellion. The Peking opera "Fishing and Killing The Family" is based on such a story. The synopsis of the play goes like this: After Ruan Xiaoqi returned to Shijie Village, he changed his name to Xiao En and took his daughter to fish by the river for a living. Ruan Xiaoqi obtained a jewel and put it on his head into the water, which could avoid the water and open the way. When Xiao En's daughter Xiao Guiying and Hua Fengchun, the son of Hua Rong, became engaged, they used this jewel as a keepsake. Due to the drought and shallow water, it was impossible to catch fish, and he owed the fishery tax of the eunuch Ding Shi xie. Ding Zixie sent people to collect fishing taxes, and Li Jun and others who had visited friends in the past were reprimanded according to reason, offending the Ding government. Ding Fu sent the teacher to lead the family Ding Suo to take Xiao En, and Xiao En couldn't bear it anymore and beat everyone to the ground. Then Shawn went to the gate again and sued the fisherman Ding Shi xie. Due to the collusion between the Ding government and the officials, the county official Lü Ziqiu not only did not allow the case, but instead blamed Xiao En's staff for forty years and forced him to cross the river to pay tribute to the Ding family. Xiao En, indignant, took his daughter across the river at night, and in the name of offering the jewel, entered the Ding Mansion at night and killed the whole family of Yuba.

Lu Ming's column | Mo Xiao looked at Ruan's three Xiongs
Lu Ming's column | Mo Xiao looked at Ruan's three Xiongs

Author: Lu Ming, male, born in 1960, pen name Yellow River into the sea. Retired cadre of Yuncheng County CPC Committee, Chairman of Yuncheng County Writers Association, President of County Poetry Society. He is a member of the Shandong Writers Association, the vice president of the Heze Poetry Society, a special researcher of the Shuihu Culture Research Base of Heze University, and a scholar of historical and cultural research in Yuncheng County. He has published more than 100 essays, more than 20 novels, and more than 1,000 poems and poems in various newspapers and online platforms such as Guangming Daily, Shandong Literature, and Times Literature, of which HezeFu was published in Guangming Daily. He is the author of six cultural books, including "Zhengyu Water Margin", "Impression of Water Margin", "Exploration of Good Han Culture", "Yuncheng Literature and History Examination Strategy" (three volumes), and the chief editor of "Selected Literary Works of Yuncheng", "Yuncheng Wenyun", "Water Margin Biography", and "Water Margin Wine Story" four works. In Heze TV, he lectured on the thirteenth issue of Water Margin Culture.

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