Where is Jingyanggang, where Song Wu killed tigers?

"Song Wu Beats the Tiger" in Water Margin is a very wonderful story. Song Wu, a Jianghu hero, killed a white-fronted tiger with his bare hands in Jingyanggang, and the image of Song Wu created by Shi Naian became a household name.

However, this story has aroused the doubts of careful readers, saying that Song Wu was from Qinghe County, Hebei Province, and why he made a detour to yanggu county, Shandong Province to fight tigers. Jingyanggang is a small slope. Are there tigers on the plains? Therefore, I concluded that the geography of Shi Naian was taught by a physical education teacher, and Jingyang Gangda Tiger was just a novelist, so I wrote such a story in a random place.

Is that really the case?

The geographical knowledge in Water Margin is very accurate. Shi Naian's writing of Water Margin is very rigorous, and there will be no major geographical mistakes. But in order to design the story, time and space were deliberately disrupted. It was "intentional" because Shi Naian wanted to hide a story in it.

For example, Jiangzhou in Water Margin was written not in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, but in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. Song Jiang wrote an anti-poem in Xunyang Building, saying that "the heart is in Shandong and the body is in Wu", and he pointed out the geographical position of Jiangzhou. The news that Cai Jiu, the magistrate, was the son of Cai Jing made Cai Hui, who had stayed in Zhenjiang, remain anonymous. Therefore, Xunyang Building and Pipa Pavilion in Jiangzhou City, as well as Wuwei Army and Jieyang Town on the other side, all serve the hidden feelings by "replacing trees with flowers".

Song Jiang's anti-poem actually hides the general attack of Song Huizong Restoration and Jingnan War. The man who "dares to laugh at Huang Chao without a husband" is indeed the emperor.

Jizhou in the book originally belonged to the Northern Song Dynasty for a period of time in history. Moreover, the Northern Song Dynasty also set up a "remote county" in sixteen states and appointed officials. Gao Qiu's son Gao worked in Longxian County. Jizhou, which belongs to Yong Lian, is the fifth "Yong Lian State" in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Yong Lian is the highest official in this state. At the same time, in the fourth year of Xuanhe in Song Huizong (1 122), the State of Jin returned Jizhou to the Northern Song Dynasty according to the agreement of the Song-Jin maritime alliance.

Shi Naian wrote such a realm, which probably laid the groundwork for the later 70 books. Duan is from Zhuozhou and Huangfu Duan is from Youzhou. These states are not counties in the Northern Song Dynasty, but the history of the "Song-Jin Maritime Alliance" hidden in Water Margin.

Give a place name, and see if Shi Naian wrote it casually without textual research.

This place is called Yunzhou. Yunzhou was later Dongping Mansion, where Dong Ping, a general with two guns, was captured alive. Yang Xiong, Shi Xiu and Fan Shi went to Liangshan together after a big fight in Cuiping Mountain. The book reads: "If not, I will travel to Yunzhou in one day."

According to Hui Zong in the History of Song Dynasty, in November of the first year of Xuanhe, "Xingzhou was promoted to Xinde, ... Yunzhou was Dongping, and Zhaozhou was qingyuan prefecture".

When did Sung River go to Liangshan? This record can be concluded as the first year of Xuanhe. It should be after the first year of Xuanhe that Liangshan heroes hit Dongping House. After Dongping House, the Water Margin was "finished".

There will be no geographical error in Shi Naian. Then, why did Song Wu start from Cangzhou and go around Yanggu, Shandong Province to Qinghe County, Hebei Province?

Where the hell is Qinghe County? Shi Naian said that Song Wu was from Qinghe County, Shandong Province. With this information, Qinghe County is located in Shandong Province. Moreover, through Song Wu's words, he repeatedly stressed that Qinghe County is a county adjacent to yanggu county. Judging from the story of Water Margin, yanggu county belongs to Dongping Prefecture. At this time, Yuncheng was indeed changed to Dongping House. The neighboring county of Dongping Prefecture should be Dongchangfu.

Speaking of Dongchangfu, the meaning of fighting tigers in Song Dynasty began to appear. Why did Song Wu go to Jingyanggang to shoot tigers? We can also get a glimpse of Shi Naian's real intentions.

Qinghe County in Water Margin is located in Shandong Province, and Shi Naian never wrote Qinghe County in Xingtai, Hebei Province. Why? Let's discuss why Song Wu went to Jingyanggang, yanggu county to shoot tigers.

Yanggu county does have a small hill called Jingyanggang. It can be said that Shi Naian deliberately chose such a place for Song Wu to kill a white-fronted tiger. Otherwise, wouldn't it be more logical to choose an uncontroversial place? Why so "exposed"?

Read the Water Margin carefully, and the word "Jingyang" appears more than once. When Gao Qiu and Cai Jing invited Song Huizong to send troops to attack Liangshan, they both mentioned Jingyang in these two stories. Among them, Gao Qiu's story is: "The next day at five o'clock, the bell of Jingyang was leaked in the courtyard."

So this "Jingyang" is that "Jingyang". It is self-evident how Song Wu killed the tiger.

But why didn't Jiayou in Song Renzong mention "Waiting for Jingyang Bell" when he was three years old? Because, Liangshan heroes will participate in the Bianjing Defence War. Originally, Mr. Wu was a hero who was scheduled to "go to the edge with one knife and one shot, and strive for fame for his wife and son". Mr. Wu is also a famous hero against gold. At that time, Jingyang Building in Song Renzong was not threatened by foreign enemies.

Since he wrote History of Northern Song Dynasty, why did Shi Naian hide anything? The Water Margin actually hides the history of two dynasties, focusing on the "Jingnan War" in the Ming Dynasty.

There is a "Jingyang Building" in Jiming Temple in Xuanwu District, Nanjing, which was built in the Southern Dynasties and the Song Dynasty. In Jiming Temple, there lived a great man who looked like a sick tiger. This is what Song Wu said when he beat the tiger. I will write the mystery in my headline column and mention it here.

The state where Qinghe County is located is a very important battle for both sides in the process of "Jingnan Battle". Shi Naian said that if Emperor Wen Jian won the battle, it would be "Hai He Yan Qing".

Haiyan River is clear, and the world is peaceful, which is the ultimate theme of Water Margin.