A Meaning Analysis of SONG Jiang's Back Gangrene

The back gangrene was a severe surgical disease in Chinese medicine in ancient China.In Outlaws of the Marsh,SONG Jiang got the back gangrene.This was not what JIN Sheng-tan said that evil would be rewarded with evil,and was not what WANG Wang-ru said"the deep brotherhood"either.From medical theory of response between heaven and man, the story about SONG Jiang's back gangrene formed based on the unique historical gangrene spirit in Song Dynasty,which was borrowed to express the peope's spirit to protect their home and land.