刘唐天异星 · 21
Leaf 21 of the marsh · 赤发鬼 Red-Haired Devil
Liu Tang 刘唐
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 21 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 赤发鬼 “Red-Haired Devil”
The Red-Haired Devil whose drunk night in a temple started the whole war.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 14
Chained in the God's Hall
醉臥靈官殿He walks into a temple drunk and is chained as a vagrant until Chao Gai claims him as a nephew.
- ch. 15
Brings Word of the Birthday Convoy
報信生辰綱It is his news about the birthday convoy that starts everything.
- ch. 114
Under the Falling Portcullis
侯潮門殞命He rushed the Houcao gate at Hangzhou before it could shut; the portcullis came down on him.
結局 The ending
Killed at Hangzhou, under the gate that came down at the mouth of the city he was first to reach. One of the seven who took the birthday convoy; the convoy finished him forty chapters later.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending