Heroes of the Marshes, which passes on the ancient free knights errant and influences the late loyal ones, is the greatest achievement of Chinese knight novels. And the thesis tries to make a study of the novel through the acceptance of the End of the Water Margin and Three Heroes and Five.Wanchun Yu accepts Shengtan Jin's ideas and denies the loyalty of Heroes of the Marshes by writing the End of the Water Margin in which all knights errant are killed. However, Three Heroes and Five agrees with the view of loyalty and tries to reduce the revolt so as to advocate the loyalty of the knights errant. And the thesis sets out study the acceptance of Heroes of the Marshes from such several aspects as the subject, character, and plot pattern etc, and makes the analysis of the reason as well as evaluation.The third part of the thesis tries to comment the different and same ones between the acceptance of the End of the Water Margin and Three Heroes and Five, and summarize the development on the knights errant.
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