Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

"The Capital" is what now is Kaifeng in Shandong, and it used to be the capital during the (Northern) Song dynasty.

In the novel it is simply often simply called as 东京 (capital of the East), which is now highly ambiguous term that can indicate several different historical capitals! Notably it is the name of modern tokyo.

The term "Mount Liang" generally refers to both the mountain and the surrounding marshy areas.

The novel always uses the term "梁山泊' (liang2 shan1 po1) to refer to the place.

Uploaded at: uploads.worldlibrary.net/uploads/pdf/20130423230739the_outlaws_of_the_marsh_pdf.pdf TODO legality? World Library seems like a legit website. Reads "Copyrighted materials".

The ball game is named cuju.

He is extremely despicable and petty, enjoys only useless things, and is vengeful and disloyal. Rooting for sport teams is stupid.

Surely his family name 俅 is a pun on the same sounding character 求 for ball.

Early on, he's usually called by others as Major Lu (魯提轄).

His original name is Lu Da 魯達

He then receives the Buddhist name Zhishen (智深, profound wisdom) during conversion.

Erniang is way more popular than her ranking in the 108 Stars of Destiny.

This is of course in part because she is one of the only 3 108 Stars of Destiny women. But her story about making human mantou is particularly fun!

She's also quite seductive, which gives directors a good opportunity for a bit of fan service. See e.g. kknews.cc/history/6epp2pp.html for a still from The Water Margin showing some good cleavage for example.

He used to train the 800,000 imperial guard troops at the Capital, much like Lin Chong. He's not one of the 108 Stars of Destiny.