连阔如 / Lian Kuoru
连阔如 is the storyteller and author whose [[JiangHuCongTan|《江湖丛谈》]] grounds 102.江湖丛谈：骗术、黑话和民间道义. The episode presents him as someone whose authority came from crossing several marginal and performance worlds: a fallen banner-family background, early apprenticeships, small trade, fortune-telling, pingshu training, theater networks, and wartime broadcasting.
The source emphasizes that Lian’s writing mattered because he disclosed insider knowledge. By publishing [[ChunDianArgot|春点]] terms, trade rules, scam routines, and lodging customs, he made Street Jianghu Society more visible to outsiders. The episode treats that act as risky and socially useful: it could anger people who depended on secrecy, but it also helped ordinary readers recognize predatory routines.
Key Claims
- Lian’s life experience makes him a bridge between quyi performance, street livelihood, and documentary writing.
- His anti-Japanese wartime broadcasting story gives the episode a moral frame: he is presented as a performer who could resist propaganda through historical storytelling.
- His value to the wiki is not only biographical; he is a source node for 春点 / Chun Dian Argot, Jianghu Scam Craft, and Informal Jianghu Order.
Connections
- [[JiangHuCongTan|《江湖丛谈》]] - book through which Lian enters the wiki.
- [[MihuanChishu|蜜獾吃书]] - podcast that interprets his book.
- Street Jianghu Society, 春点 / Chun Dian Argot, and Informal Jianghu Order - main social concepts drawn from his account.
- Jianghu Scam Craft and Social Engineering Fraud - fraud mechanisms exposed through the episode’s reading of his material.