Now, keeping in mind that the 300 verses of the classic of poetry begin with a song of courtship called “Osprey’s cry,” I will begin my book with my marriage and proceed from there. I will do my best to record everything that I did And felt during those times, Though I am somewhat ashamed to admit That I strayed from my studies When I was young and that I am not very good at writing. If you would look for skill in my composition, you may as well demand light from a filthy mirror. People are like autumn geese bringing word again, but the past is a spring dream that fades without a trace. It distances itself from water margin through changes in chapters 1 and 84. This Edition also contains more refined titular couplets, fewer dialect expressions, fewer songs and verses, and changes in chapters 53 and 54.