扈三娘地慧星 · 59
Leaf 59 of the marsh · 一丈青 Ten Feet of Blue
Hu Sanniang 扈三娘
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 59 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 一丈青 “Ten Feet of Blue”
The Ten-Foot Blue Snake, taken alive in ten moves and married by committee.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 48
Taken Alive in Ten Moves
一丈青被擒She rides out to avenge her betrothed and is taken alive by Lin Chong in ten moves.
- ch. 50
Married to the Dwarf Wang Ying
配矮腳虎Her family is slaughtered by Li Kui days later; Song Jiang arranges her marriage to the dwarf Wang Ying.
- ch. 114
Riding Ahead of Her Husband
杭州殞命She died in the Hangzhou campaign, still riding ahead of the husband the mountain gave her.
結局 The ending
Killed at Hangzhou, riding out to take a man alive. Her family was butchered in the raid on their village manor; she married into the mountain that ordered it, followed her husband's banner into every battle after, and died in the last of them.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending