东北民俗中的水浒故事

Water Margin Stories in Northeast Folk Custom

水浒故事,无论是施耐痷的小说,还是央视上演的电视剧,可谓家喻户晓,堪称经典。您可知道,在东北民俗中也能找到水浒人物故事的身影。舞出东北风情的二人转,老少咸宜的水浒叶子,家家户户墙上贴的年画,街头上演的高跷秧歌,都从水浒故事中取材,留下了水浒故事的印记。

Stories of Water Margin, either through Shi Nai’an’s novel of the same name, or the TV play on CCTV, were wildly known. But, do you know that figures in these stories can also be found in Northeast folk custom?The card game of "Water Margin Playing Cards"(stories’ figures were vividly painted on the cards) might be long forgotten by modern people. The game came into being by the end of Tang Dynasty(618-907) and was current in Liao Dynasty(907-1125). The book Water Margin written in Ming Dynasty(1368-1644) injected fresh blood in the old game and made it the most popular card game at the time.In Qing Dynasty(1644-1911), the Northeast folk custom performances, such as walking on stilts and yangko, contained many figures in costume like heroes in Water Margin. Moreover, both song-anddance duet that presented the amorous feelings of Northeast of China and New Year pictures drew materials from these stories. And marks of these stories could still be seen in many details.