postgres Wu Yong (died 1124), courtesy name Xuejiu and nicknamed the Star of Wisdom, is the Liangshan strategist in Water Margin. He is from Dongxi village in Yuncheng county, Jizhou. /en/people/wu-yong.html person_cn_q1038409 person wu-yong 吴用

Wu Yong (died 1124), courtesy name Xuejiu and nicknamed the Star of Wisdom, is the Liangshan strategist in Water Margin. He is from Dongxi village in Yuncheng county, Jizhou.

published category-literature category-people category-fictional-characters tag-fictional-character tag-classics tag-four-great-classics wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1038409 zhwiki https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B4%E7%94%A8 2026-10-25T00:00:00+08:00 2026-10-29T17:18:02+08:00 user:admin 7 Wu Yong is a character in Water Margin. Wikidata uses Wu Yong as his name. The cited Chinese Wikipedia gives his courtesy name as Xuejiu, his Daoist name as Master Jialiang, and his nickname as the Star of Wisdom, so the title stays the personal name. This entry records his death in 1124.[^wikidata][^zhwiki] ## Origins He is from Dongxi village in Yuncheng county, Jizhou, Shandong. He and Chao Gai had been friends since childhood, and his companions respectfully called him Scholar Wu. He had worked as a tutor in wealthy households. The page says he was learned in military stratagems, clear-browed and fair, with a long beard, and skilled with a pair of bronze chains.[^zhwiki] ## Liangshan He later planned the seizure, by Chao Gai and others, of the hundred thousand strings of birthday tribute that Governor Liang was sending to Cai Jing. Warned by Song Jiang, they reached Liangshan before the pursuit. After arriving, Wu Yong provoked Lin Chong into killing Wang Lun and setting Chao Gai up as chief. Wu Yong himself became Liangshan's chief strategist, and both civil and military business passed through his hands. When the band attacked Gaotang and Gao Lian's sorcery could not be broken, he sent Li Kui and Dai Zong to fetch the recluse Gongsun Sheng, who defeated Gao Lian with the orthodox rite of the five thunders. After the amnesty he advised Song Jiang and Lu Junyi in the campaigns against Liao, Tian Hu, Wang Qing and Fang La, and was made martial-integrity general and Chengxuan commissioner of Wusheng army.[^zhwiki] ## Death In a dream he learned that Song Jiang had been murdered. Unable to repay that bond, he and Hua Rong hanged themselves before Song Jiang's grave at Liao'erwa outside the south gate of Chuzhou, and were buried beside the tomb.[^zhwiki] ## Basic facts - Name: Wu Yong[^wikidata] - Courtesy name: Xuejiu[^zhwiki] - Nickname: Star of Wisdom[^zhwiki] - Description: a character in Water Margin[^wikidata] - Birthplace: [[place_cn_371725|Yuncheng County]][^wikidata] - Death recorded on this entry: 1124[^wikidata] - Occupation recorded on this entry: teacher[^wikidata] - Appears in: [[work_cn_q70827|Water Margin]] /people/wu-yong.html en zh en 1124 1124 Character in Water Margin true literary character tag-fictional-character fictional-character Fictional character Fictional or literary characters from classic works. 1026 tag-classics classics Classics Classic works and novels of pre-modern China. 1077 tag-four-great-classics four-great-classics Four Great Classical Novels Dream of the Red Chamber, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West, and their characters. 572 relation_cnworks_depicts_q70827_q1038409 work_cn_q70827 depicts person_cn_q1038409 work_cn_q70827 wikidata Related works work_cn_q70827 Water Margin /en/works/water-margin.html true 7 2026-10-29T17:18:02+08:00 当前版本 true /en/people/wu-yong/at/7.html en zh en death_date Death 1124 is_fictional Fictional yes person_category Person category literary character disambiguation Disambiguation Character in Water Margin 1 depicts true Related works 1