However, I think that when Shi Naian wrote the book, Luo Guanzhong was already dead, and it was impossible to help Shi Naian catch the knife. So, what about Gao Ru's statement? Besides, is what Wang Daosheng said true?
Gao Ru, a famous bibliophile in Ming Dynasty, compiled a bibliography with the book number "Hundred Rivers Record" based on the books collected at home in the 19th year of Jiajing (1540). Among them, it simply verified Baihui's Water Margin. It is said that the female parent of Water Margin was published by Jiajing five years ago, and there are still five books. Probably, according to the matriarch, Gao Ru came to the conclusion that "Qiantang Shi Naian Book was edited by Luo Guanzhong".
According to Gao Ru, Luo Guanzhong didn't help catch the knife, but revised the Water Margin after Shi Naian.
According to Gao Ru's later statements, he concluded that Shi Naian only wrote the first 70 times, and Luo Guanzhong wrote 30 sequels, The Water Margin, which was 100 times. The remaining twenty chapters are Yuan's sequel to the Hundred Chapters based on Liu Xing's short version of Water Margin.
Yuan's version is 120 chapters of Water Margin, that is, 70 original works and 50 sequels. During this period, I went to Tian Hu and Wang Qing, and inserted a version to break Liao. In other words, Breaking Liao is the last sequel.
Therefore, even according to Gao Ru, Luo Guanzhong only participated in the compilation or knife-catching work of Baihui (Water Margin), and there are 20 Shu Hui films that have nothing to do with Luo Guanzhong. Therefore, the current version of the signature "Shi Naian, Luo Guanzhong" is also wrong.
In fact, there are many mistakes in Gao Ru's "Hundred Rivers", and the textual research on the author of "Water Margin" is also extremely imprecise. Who is Shi Naian and who is Luo Guanzhong? Gao Ru doesn't know at all, so it's easy to draw a conclusion next time, which is very misleading to future generations.
It is impossible for Luo Guanzhong to catch a knife for Shi Naian. Water Margin has nothing to do with him.
Wang Daosheng lied and made up "Shi Naian". I don't think there is Wang Daosheng in history, so his epitaph of Shi Naian is forged. There are not many examples here, only a common-sense mistake in Wang Daosheng's epitaph.
Wang Daosheng said that Shi Naian has written many books, including Zhiyu, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Legend of the Demon Demon in Sansui, Legend of the Hawker in the Jianghu and The Water Margin. Shi Naian occupies so much copyright that there are no biographies of vendors in the Jianghu. Later generations felt that something was wrong, so they added the word "Water Margin" after "Water Margin".
No matter what materials, there is no title of Water Margin, which can be described as "spoken language". Can spoken English also be used to write epitaphs?
Shi Naian didn't write The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is not the most obvious common sense mistake. The most serious mistake was that Wang Daosheng said that The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was written by Shi Naian.
Luo Guanzhong's novels were published in the first year of Jiajing. Its title is Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and this version is People's Military Book. Later, there were several titles, but in the Ming Dynasty, there was no such title as Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Mao Lun and Mao Zonggang sorted out and revised Luo Guanzhong's original works and named it The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The title 1030 10 only existed in the Qing Dynasty. Where will Shi Naian write this novel?
Wang Daosheng said in his epitaph: Gai Gong died in Hongwu Gengxu at the age of 75. By then, I can know my master Luo Guanzhong in Fujian. I accompanied him to travel, lit candles at night and talked about my husband's anecdotes.
In other words, when Shi Naian died in the third year of Hongwu (1370), Wang Daosheng was already a humble child (about seven or eight years old). The Qing Dynasty was founded in 1644. RoyceWong Daosheng lived for more than 200 years and read Luo Guanzhong's novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
Therefore, it is not credible to say that Shi Naian died in Hongwu for three years and Wang Daosheng was a hypocrite. Therefore, this so-called "Shi Naian Epitaph" must have been forged in the Qing Dynasty, and it must have been published under the title of Romance of the Three Kingdoms after being revised by Mao Zonggang and his son.
Wang Daosheng also lied: Every manuscript must be proofread by a master, especially Luo Guanzhong. Therefore, Biography of Three Spices of the Demon, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Biography of Jianghu Hawks have all become works under the name of Shi Naian.
The lie of "Wang Daosheng" is not worth refuting, and Shi Naian's epitaph is not credible. Therefore, it is difficult to establish that Luo Guanzhong is a student of Shi Naian, Luo Guanzhong made it up, and Luo Guanzhong grabbed a knife for Shi Naian.
Luo Guanzhong should be from the Yuan Dynasty, much older than Shi Naian. If you read the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms carefully, you will find a lot of ancient poems quoted in the book. After comparison, I only found that one of them was a poem of the Ming Dynasty, and the others had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty.
If Luo Guanzhong lived to Shi Naian, such as Liu Bowen, a great scholar in the early Ming Dynasty, wrote so many poems, why did Luo Guanzhong look down on them?
Later, the fake epitaph of fake Wang Daosheng continued to ferment, inferring that Shi Naian and Liu Bowen were close friends and even kindred spirits. Liu Bowen once praised Zhuge Liang and wrote many poems praising Zhuge Liang. If Luo Guanzhong is a student in Shi Naian, why doesn't he use his uncle's poems?
In short, the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms was published during Jiajing period, except for a poem that was suspected to have been added when it was published, which had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. Even The Romance of the Three Kingdoms contains no information related to the Ming Dynasty, except that the opening words quoted Yang Shen's Linjiang Fairy.
So the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms was probably completed before the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Luo Guanzhong also highly suspected that he was from the Yuan Dynasty, so I'm afraid he didn't live to the Ming Dynasty.
So, when did Shi Naian come? In my opinion, Shi Naian spent most of his time in the Ming Dynasty, and he certainly won't die in Ming Hongwu for three years. At the same time, Shi Naian is definitely not the Shiyan Duan in Xinghua, Jiangsu.
In fact, Shi Naian was hidden in the year of Water Margin, and the story background involved in the first 70 chapters proves that the author of this great novel must have lived in the 19th year of Yongle (142 1), that is, after Zhu Di moved to Beijing. Beijing is already in the book. Shi Naian refers to Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, and there was a famous mansion in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Hokki in Zengtou City is now Beijing.
In Dongcheng District, there is also "Huokeji Street".
The ancients spent a lot of time writing books. After Judy moved to the capital, it was impossible for Shi Naian to finish Water Margin immediately. Therefore, the author of Water Margin should live to at least 1425. I even highly doubt that "Shi Naian" is Fu Qia, a monk around his side.
The Water Margin quoted a lot of characters and scenes from the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but Shi Naian did the opposite, implying that "there was no Han and Tang Dynasties after the Great Song Dynasty". If Luo Guanzhong is a student in Shi Naian, how can a teacher imitate the students' works? If Shi Naian ordered Luo Guanzhong to write The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, why did he refute his point of view and write Zhuge Liang as a "useless man" and become an apprentice of Sung River?
In a word, Luo Guanzhong is much bigger than Shi Naian, and there is a gap of at least thirty years between them. Therefore, it is impossible for Luo Guanzhong to write for Shi Naian, and it is also impossible for him to help Shi Naian complete Water Margin. The Water Margin has something to do with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but it has nothing to do with Luo Guanzhong.