Chinese Literature

顾大嫂地阴星 · 101

Leaf 101 of the marsh · 母大虫 Female Big Worm

Gu Dasao 顾大嫂

In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 101 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 母大虫 “Female Big Worm”

The Mother Tiger, who ran a jailbreak out of her own kitchen.

The great deeds 大事記

  1. ch. 49

    A Jailbreak Planned in Her Tavern

    母大蟲定計

    She plans a jailbreak from her own tavern and plants her husband and his brother inside the prison as guards.

  2. ch. 49

    The Wedding Banquet Jailbreak

    喜宴劫牢

    A wedding banquet is the cover; the Xie brothers walk out and Dengzhou's garrison walks to the mountain.

  3. ch. 119

    Alive, Enfeoffed, and Home Again

    受封還鄉

    She came out of the campaigns alive and enfeoffed, which almost no woman in the book manages.

結局 The ending

She survived the prison break she organised, the fortress she took in men's clothes, and the whole southern campaign, then went home with a title and her own two hands. The roster's whole note on her is one word: survived.

The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending