When the Water Margin introduces Song Jiang, it says that he spent freely and treated gold like dirt. “When people asked him for money or goods, he never refused.” He gave out coffins and medicine, “relieved the poor, helped those in urgent need and supported those in trouble.”
“For this he was famous in Shandong and Hebei, and everyone called him the Timely Rain.” The novel explains the name. People compared him to rain that falls from heaven just in time and saves all living things.