Wu Song’s original text and appreciation of Tiger Fighting

"Wu Song Fights the Tiger at Jingyanggang" is selected from "Water Margin", which is one of the four classic classics in my country. The original text and appreciation are compiled below for your reference.

The original text of Wu Song's Fighting Tigers

Wu Song took advantage of the wine and just walked up the hill. Less than half a mile away, I saw a dilapidated mountain temple. Walking to the temple, he saw a seal on the temple door. When Wu Song stopped and read it, it read:

Yanggu County Notice: For this Jingyang Gang, there is a new one. Big insects have been causing harm to human lives recently. Nowadays, the sticks are limited to the hunters in various villages, but no one has caught them. If there are passing travelers or merchants, they can go over the hill together at Si, noon and Wei. At other times and single guests are not allowed to cross the hill during the day, for fear of being injured and inconvenienced. Everyone should know.

Wu Song read the seal list and knew that there was a tiger in the end. He wanted to turn around and go back to the hotel, thinking: "When I go back, I will be ridiculed by him. If I am not a good man, it will be difficult to turn away." Cun thought for a while and said, "What are you afraid of? Just go up and see what happens!" As Wu Song was walking, he saw the wine pouring up, so he put the felt hat on his back, tied the stick under his ribs, and walked up to the hill step by step. When I looked back at the sunset, it was gradually falling. The weather is now in October, with short days and long nights, making it easy to get late. Wu Song said to himself: "What kind of big insect is that? People are afraid of themselves and dare not go up the mountain."

Wu Song walked for a while, drunk and became scorched, holding a stick in one hand and a stick in the other. He opened his chest with his hands and staggered straight into the jungle. Seeing a large bluestone with light on it, I leaned the stick on one side and turned my body over. But when I was about to fall asleep, I saw a strong wind blowing up. Wherever the gust of wind passed, a thumping sound was heard behind the trees, and a big white-fronted insect jumped out.

When Wu Song saw it, he shouted: "Haha!" He turned down from the bluestone, took the tip stick in his hand, and flashed it beside the bluestone. The big insect was hungry and thirsty, so he pressed his two claws on the ground briefly, jumped up with his body, and lifted it down from the air. Wu Song was so shocked that he broke out in a cold sweat. It was too late, but it was too late. When Wu Song saw the big insect coming towards him, he just dodged and got behind the big insect. It was most difficult for the big insect to see people from behind, so it put its front paws on the ground, lifted its waist and hips, and lifted it up. Wu Song only dodged and stepped aside. Seeing that he couldn't lift him, the big insect roared, but it was like a thunderbolt for a long time, shaking the mountains. It also raised the iron rod like a tiger's tail, and only cut it, but Wu Song dodged aside. It turns out that the big insect only used one pounce, one lift, and one scissor to catch a person. When he couldn't lift him, half of his temper was gone. The big insect couldn't be cut anymore, so it roared again and came back again and again.

When Wu Song saw the big insect turn over and come back, he raised his stick with both hands and used all his strength to chop it down from mid-air with just one stick. There was only a sound, and the tree was knocked down with its branches and leaves. When you look closely, you can't hit the big insect with a stick. It turned out that he was panicking and was hitting the dead tree. He broke the stick into two pieces and only got half of it in his hand. The big insect roared, got angry, turned over and pounced again. Wu Song only jumped again, but retreated ten steps, and the big insect put its two front paws in front of Wu Song. Wu Song threw half of the stick aside, grabbed the big insect's head with both hands, and pressed it down. The big insect was about to struggle, but Wu Song tried his best to restrain it, but he was not willing to relax even a little bit. Wu Song looked at the big insect's face and eyes with his feet, and just kicked it randomly. The big insect roared and scooped up two piles of yellow mud from under its body, making a pit. Wu Song pushed the big insect's mouth straight down into the yellow mud pit. The big insect ate Wu Songnai and lost some of his strength. Wu Song grasped the flower skin tightly with his left hand, stole his right hand, raised his fist as big as a hammer, and focused on hitting with all his strength. After fifty or seventy punches, blood spurted out of the big insect's eyes, mouth, nose, and ears. It was even unable to move and could only gasp for breath. Wu Song let go and came to the pine tree to look for the discounted stick and took it in his hand; fearing that the insect would not die, he hit the stick again. The big bug is gone. Wu Song thought again and said, "I'll drag this big dead insect down the hill on the spot." When he tried to lift it with his hands in the pool of blood, he couldn't move it! It turned out that after exerting all his strength, his hands and feet were so weak that he couldn't move.

Appreciation

At the beginning of the battle, "a gust of wind blew up", and then there was a sound from behind a mess of trees, and a big white-fronted insect jumped out with an eye-catching look. The wind was used to write the tiger, and the sound was used to write the tiger. It can be seen that this is A tiger is truly the king of beasts. Next, the tiger "presses" and "pounces", missing every move, and then "lifts it up", and then "the tiger's tail is raised upside down and then cut". Facing the tiger's "pounce", "lift" and "cut", Wu Song just retreated and dodged three times in a row, without any heroic behavior. However, these three dodges showed Wu Song's wit and agility. The tiger missed the three attempts and "half of his temper was lost first." So Wu Song began to switch from defense to offense, using a big stick to fight with all his strength. There is a suspense here. Wu Song used too much force and broke his whistle stick. He was shocked. "It was only one jump, but it jumped ten steps away." However, he was able to "take advantage of the situation" to hold down the charging tiger. Wu Song was not willing to relax even a little bit, "Looking at the big insect with his feet in front of the door, his eyes were just kicking." "Tightly grasping the flower skin with his left hand, stole his right hand, raised his fist as big as a hammer, and spent his whole life I just hit him with all my strength." "I was afraid that the big insect would not die, so I hit him with the stick again." "When I saw that my energy was gone, I just threw the stick away."

This description makes people look like tigers. The fighting scenes are written vividly and vividly on the page. From here we can see Wu Song's bravery and decisiveness, but we can also see the cruel side of his character. This also laid the foundation for later killing his sister-in-law to sacrifice his brother, and splattering Yuanyang Tower with blood.