Xia Zhiqing, Honorary Professor of China Literature at Columbia University: Compared with The Romance of Three Kingdoms, Water Margin has developed China's novel art in at least two main aspects. First, a large number of vernacular styles that are still loved by modern readers are adopted. Secondly, when it portrays characters and tells stories, it cannot be trapped by historical facts.

With real daily life as the background, Water Margin has written many stories of heroes in Jianghu, which is really more vivid and real than Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Lu Xun, a modern writer, said: The word "chivalrous" has faded, and robbers appear, but they are also chivalrous. Their flag is to help heaven. They opposed traitors, not emperors, and robbed civilians, not generals.

Li Kui jy took the lead in chopping with an axe when grabbing the gift ceremony, but it was the spectators. A movie "Water Margin" makes it very clear: because it is not against the Emperor, as soon as the army arrives, it is called up to fight other robbers for the country-there is no robber who "acts for heaven". Finally became a slave.

Comments on the TV series Water Margin:

The Water Margin describes the tragic ending of the peasant uprising in Liangshanpo from Juyi to failure. It profoundly revealed the social roots of the uprising, enthusiastically praised the uprising heroes' resistance struggle and their social ideals, and specifically revealed the internal historical reasons for the failure of the uprising.

"Water Margin" is a careless story of a hero, and it is a man's play with a hundred singles and eight generals. In addition, the male perspective of critical realism in the play has become the female perspective of romantic idealism. After reading the Water Margin, the passionate, simple and rude energy of all heroes is unforgettable.