24.4.1. Water Margin (水浒传)
We should make a montage with some Chinese dissidents (中国持不同政见者) side by side with Water Margin characters. The analogy is just so strong!
The slogan would be 现代好汉，替天行道：向持不同政见者水浒传的致敬 (Modern day Heroes: Water Margin Homage to the dissidents)
For the image:
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Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, 1950-) vs Song Jiang: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SongJiang.jpg. The rebel leader. Wei Jingsheng is an early strong voice of democracy in China, so fit for a leader.
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Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017) vs Lu Zhishen uprooting a tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lu_Zhishen_Water_Margin_2.jpg. Both are somewhat pacifists, Zhishen being a monk, and Xiaobo wanted people to leave the square at Tiananmen to not get killed.
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Liu Shihui vs Lin Chong just after killing Lu Qian:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yoshitoshi-Lin_Chong.jpg[]. Both brave thin dudes standing up.
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Quan Ping vs Wu Song killing the tiger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wu_Song_Water_Margin.jpg. Just two strong dudes.
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Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020) vs Yang Zhi killing the man at the bridge. Hao Haidong is a good choice because he is actually physically impressive. Unfortunate how the first thing that comes to mind is Gao Qiu, the evil dude!
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Yue Xin (岳昕) vs Sun Erniang, the image is a still from the 1998 series episode 20. Two chicks. There are only 3 women in water margin, and she is perhaps the most well known because she made mantous out of human flesh.
Some others that could be used in the future:
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Chen Mei and Cai Wei from Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs). TODO for them it would be good if we could have two closely related characters. Perhaps
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Ruan brothers: Ruan Xiao’er, Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaoqi. More notable than the Zhang brothers most likely. The problem is that they are 3.
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the brothers Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun, the only question is if they are memorable enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Senkaji_Chao_wringing_out_hin_loincloth.jpg and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Utagawa_Kuniyoshi_-水滸傳-_張順.jpg perhaps.
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/266089281 contains all images of some version, but not the 1998 series outro.
Some good quotes from http://uploads.worldlibrary.net/uploads/pdf/20130423230739the_outlaws_of_the_marsh_pdf.pdf
Chapter 65:
Because the emperor has been deluded and permits corrupt officials to hold power and harm the people, they have all volunteered to help me act on Heaven’s behalf.
Chapter 71: Song Jiang takes power at Liang Shan.
Chapter 81:
Song Jiang and his band have Act in Heaven’s Behalf written on their banner. They never attack a government seat or harm the people. They kill only corrupt and slanderous officials.
Couldn’t find any perfect one, so I just wrote my own unfortunately:
当贪官当权时
英雄沦为土匪替天行道
新的水浒传
When corrupt Officials take power,
the heroes must become bandits.Doing Heaven’s Will
The New Water Margin
