Song Jiang

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Song Jiang was a Chinese rebel who led an armed uprising against the ruling Song dynasty in the early 12th century. He and his followers marauded a region straddling the present-day provinces of Shandong and Henan before they were eventually defeated by Song government forces led by Zhang Shuye and forced to surrender. The tales of Song Jiang and his band were popular among the literati as well as with unlettered audiences from the Song onward. A fictionalised persona of the historical Song Jiang serves as a central figure in Water Margin, one of the Classic Chinese Novels. In the novel, he leads the 108 Heroes who start out as outlaws at Liangshan Marsh before receiving amnesty from and serving the Song government. As a fictional hero he greatly influenced the behavior of a number of later Chinese rebels.

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