《水浒传》通常被人们归入英雄传奇小说,这类小说从宋元小说话本中的“说公案”“朴刀、杆棒及发迹变泰之事”或“说铁骑儿”之类发展而来,以塑造一个或几个传奇式的英雄人物为重点,故事中的主要人物和题材虽有一定的历史根据,但虚多于实,甚至主要出于虚构,其作者有可能突破历史事实的制约,跳出帝王将相、军国大事的圈子,将目光移向民间日常的生活和普通的人。《水浒》即是这类小说中 “Water Margin” is usually classified as heroic fiction novels, from the novels of the Song and Yuan Dynasties in the story, “said the case” “Pudao, rod and fortune change things ” or “And so on, to shape one or several legendary heroes as the focus, although the story of the main characters and themes have some historical basis, but more than real, or even mainly for the fiction, the author It is possible to break through the constraints of historical facts, jump out of the imperial phase, the military affairs circle, and turn our attention to daily life and ordinary people. ”Water Margin" is such a novel