Under the rule of an alien race, the people identified with the characters in Water Margin, and they followed its example to band together the people into military units; many hoped to thus drive out the Manchus and restore the Ming.
明為清滅，異族統治後，百姓在相同情結下，亦藉水滸故事來聚合大家，形成陣頭，以圖反清復明。