The surname is Song Mingjiang, a famous male, ranking third. My ancestral home is Songjia Village, Yuncheng County. Because of his dark face and short stature, everyone called him Black Sung River. Moreover, he is filial to his family and generous to those in need. Everyone calls him filial to Kursaburo. ..... He is proficient in knife and pencil, official road, and even more fond of learning guns and sticks, and has learned a lot of martial arts. Throughout my life, I will make friends with heroes in the Jianghu: but if someone comes to see him, no matter how high or low, he will be inexhaustible, and he will stay in the pavilion valley of Zhuangshang all day and enjoy it; If you want to get up, try your best to help. In the end, it is profligacy, and gold is like water. People ask him for money and things, and they don't shirk it. And it's easy to do. It's always difficult to solve disputes, just for everyone's life. Often throw coffin bait to help the poor, solve the urgent needs of the people in Zhoubei, and help the people. Shandong and Hebei are famous for this. They all call him timely rain, but compare him to timely rain in the sky, which can save everything.
This introduction is comprehensive and general. From here, we know that Song Jiang was born in a landlord family, educated by Confucianism, served in the ruling class camp, was a brave man, and liked to make friends with heroes in Jianghu. This outlines the image of Song Jiang, sets the tone of his personality and points out the main genes of his life. Later, Song Jiang's character gradually developed on this basis, and all his words and deeds can be found here.
Loyalty is the main character of Song Jiang, but it is not the whole of his character. His whole personality is much more complicated, rich and profound. He is merciful and kind, helping others, but occasionally he will show cruelty and unscrupulous means; He is full of political foresight and great talent, but sometimes he appears short-sighted and fatuous; He is good at listening to the opinions of trainable people and accepting good suggestions, but sometimes he sticks to his own opinions and refuses good suggestions; On the one hand, he took it as his duty to sweep away the dark forces in society, on the other hand, he took loyalty to the monarch as the highest code of conduct; On the one hand, he created the Liangshan cause, on the other hand, he destroyed the Liangshan cause ... These seemingly contradictory things are organically unified on Song Jiang, which is so real and natural, creating a specific artistic image of Song Jiang.
Throughout Song Jiang's life, he actually didn't respect "loyalty" and didn't keep the words "righteousness" and "loyalty". That's just a magic weapon he uses to play tricks. He can put on a beautiful coat of "loyalty" for any despicable behavior according to his own needs. Reading outlaws of the Marsh at night impressed me the most: be wary of people who pull the banner of Jiang in real life.