Tā shì ge Shuǐhǔ mí, shū lǐ hǎohàn de chuòhào dōu néng bèi xiàlai.
He's a Water Margin fan and can recite the nicknames of all the heroes in the book.
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usage
The short name of the novel 水浒传, used on its own and in compounds such as 水浒人物 'Water Margin characters' and 水浒迷 'a Water Margin fan'.
history
浒 is an old word for a riverbank, so the name means 'the water's edge', the marshes of 梁山 where the outlaws gather. The phrase is old: in the 诗经 the Zhou ancestor 古公亶父 rides west 'along the water's edge', 率西水浒, to found a new home.
