花荣天英星 · 9
Leaf 9 of the marsh · 小李广 Little Li Guang
Hua Rong 花荣
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 9 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 小李广 “Little Li Guang”
The silver lance with a bow no one on the mountain could argue with.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 33
An Arrow Splits the Lantern Cord
神箭斷燈繩At Qingzhou he splits a lantern cord in the dark to cover a rescue, and the garrison loses its nerve.
- ch. 35
The Goose at a Hundred Paces
梁山射雁A wild goose through the head at a hundred paces silences everyone who doubted him.
- ch. 120
Hanged in the Same Reed Marsh
蓼兒洼從死He followed Song Jiang's grave to the end, and hanged himself in the same reed marsh.
結局 The ending
He came to the grave to mourn and hanged himself there with Wu Yong. The bow that never missed was found still strung, and nobody on the mountain put another arrow to it.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending