1Wu Song, heroic outlaw of Liangshan in the classic novel Water Margin (水浒传), best remembered for killing a man-eating tiger on Jingyang Ridge with his bare hands
To avenge his brother, Wu Song killed Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing.
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culture
On his way to the ridge he stops at an inn whose banner reads 三碗不过冈, 'three bowls and you won't cross the ridge'. He drinks eighteen, climbs anyway, and fights the tiger bare-handed after his staff snaps on a tree.
history
Storytellers already told of him in the Song dynasty. Among the 108 heroes he ranks 14th, under the star 天伤星. In 金瓶梅, which grows out of his brother's murder, 西门庆 dies of illness before Wu Song can take revenge.
