张横天平星 · 28
Leaf 28 of the marsh · 船火儿 Boat Fire
Zhang Heng 张横
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 28 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 船火儿 “Boat Fire”
The gambling fisherman with a flower behind his ear.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 15
A Boat Risked on the Convoy
石碣村聚義He stakes his boat on the birthday convoy and wins a place on the mountain.
- ch. 19
Boarding from Under the Water
翻船潛渡He flips his boat and swims under an enemy fleet to board it from below.
- ch. 119
Killed in the Qingxi Palace Yard
青溪就義Captured at Qingxi, he is killed in the palace yard in the last week of the war.
結局 The ending
Took sick at Hangzhou and died there. The punter who had stripped travellers on the river for a living ended with a coffin the court paid to carry home.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending