鲁智深天孤星 · 13
Leaf 13 of the marsh · 花和尚 Flowery Monk
Lu Zhishen 鲁智深
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 13 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 花和尚 “Flowery Monk”
An officer who killed a butcher for a stranger's daughter and never once regretted it.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 3
Three Punches for the Singer
拳打鎮關西Three punches for a singer he never met; the butcher dies and the officer walks out of his uniform.
- ch. 7
Uprooting the Weeping Willow
倒拔垂楊柳He uproots a willow to silence the crows, and the ruffians of the acid garden kneel.
- ch. 8
A Thousand Li Beside the Cangue
大鬧野豬林He carries Lin Chong off the road to safety and walks a thousand li beside his cangue.
- ch. 119
The Liuhe Tide Brings His End
聽潮而圓He hears the tide at Liuhe, laughs, and sits down to die.
結局 The ending
At Hangzhou he heard the Qiantang tide at midnight, took it for the summons, washed, put on his monk's robes, sat upright at the Liuhe pagoda, and was gone before morning. The brother who broke every rule in a temple died inside one.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending