Chinese Literature

黄信地煞星 · 38

Leaf 38 of the marsh · 镇三山 Subduer of Three Mountains

Huang Xin 黄信

In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 38 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 镇三山 “Subduer of Three Mountains”

The captain who boasted of crushing three mountains and joined them instead.

The great deeds 大事記

  1. ch. 33

    One Net at Qingfeng

    鎮三山出陣

    The 'Rival of Three Mountains' takes Song Jiang and Hua Rong in one net at Qingfeng fort.

  2. ch. 35

    He Submits at Qingfeng Mountain

    清風山歸順

    His own convoy is ambushed on the road, and the three mountains he boasted of become his oath-brothers.

  3. ch. 119

    Home Alive and Enfeoffed

    凱旋受封

    He came home alive, which on this mountain counted as a miracle.

結局 The ending

Survived the whole war and collected his commission. The book gives him a garrison at the end and, as far as anyone records, nothing left to be sent against.

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