林冲天雄星 · 6
Leaf 6 of the marsh · 豹子头 Leopard Head
Lin Chong 林冲
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 6 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 豹子头 “Leopard Head”
The finest spear in the imperial guard, pushed out of the law one betrayal at a time.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 7
Framed in the White Tiger Hall
誤入白虎堂Framed by his sworn brother over his wife, he is branded and exiled with a blade he may not carry.
- ch. 8
The Staff at Wild Boar Wood
大鬧野豬林Betrayed twice on the road, he is carried out of the wild boar forest by a monk's staff.
- ch. 10
The Plot Through the Temple Wall
風雪山神廟The snowy night he hears the plot through a temple wall: the loyal officer dies and the outlaw is born.
- ch. 19
A Drawn Blade Seats Another Chief
火併王倫He seats Chao Gai with a drawn blade in the hall, and refuses the chair himself.
結局 The ending
The wind-illness took his legs at Hangzhou and Wu Song stayed to nurse him. He died in a monk's bed at the Liuhe pagoda — the one man the mountain destroyed entirely by law, and the law never finished.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending