张清天捷星 · 16
Leaf 16 of the marsh · 没羽箭 Featherless Arrow
Zhang Qing 张清
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 16 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 没羽箭 “Featherless Arrow”
A bag of stones and the arm to throw them — fifteen champions unhorsed in an afternoon.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 70
A Bag of Stones, Fifteen Down
飛石連打十五員One man and a bag of stones: fifteen Liangshan champions unhorsed in a single sortie.
- ch. 70
Lured by Grain Onto the Mountain
水陸賺飛石The water routes trick him into a grain convoy and the mountain finally takes him.
- ch. 98
Wedding His Superior Thrower
緣配瓊英He married Qiong Ying, the only person who ever out-threw him.
結局 The ending
Killed in the same pass as Dong Ping, the stones at the end of his belt still unused. His entire art was to hit a man before he drew; at the pass he was not given the few steps it needed.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending