When I first read Journey to the West, I always thought that with his own efforts, Sun Wukong not only became the Great Sage of Heaven, but also became the fighting and defeating Buddha of the Western Heaven Spirit Mountain.
When he grew up, he re read Journey to the West before he awoke. Even the Monkey King has his own backstage. You can see who the father of Monkey King is. No wonder no one in the three worlds dares to kill Monkey King.
1、 Nobody dares to kill Monkey King
When the Monkey King was just born, he looked up at the sky, and immediately two golden lights shot from his eyes. The golden light energy is so huge that it has passed through the thirty third heaven and reached the Lingxiao Hall of the Jade Emperor.
But the Jade Emperor clearly knew that there was a stone monkey born in Huaguo Mountain through his clairvoyant eyes and downwind ears, but he said, "Not enough is different.". If the Jade Emperor could strangle the Monkey King in the cradle at this time, how could the Monkey King eat flat peaches, golden pills and make havoc in Heaven in the future?
After that, Sun Wukong learned magic from Bodhi's founder. He said the formula of avoiding water and then dived to the "twenty thousand miles under the sea" and came to the Crystal Palace of the Dragon King of the East Sea. The Dragon King of Donghai saw many things and knew a lot. He called him "Immortal" as soon as he saw Monkey King, and personally admitted that Monkey King was the legendary "born sage".
Unfortunately, Monkey King was arrogant. He was not satisfied with the Jade Emperor's granting him the Great Sage of Heaven, so he had to break into the Lingxiao Temple and let the Jade Emperor let him live in the Heavenly Palace.
But the Monkey King clearly committed an unforgivable sin, and even the Supreme Lord Lao Jun, one of the three cleans, frequently released water. It turned out that the Supreme Lord clapped his chest before the Jade Emperor and promised that as long as he threw the Monkey King into the Eight Diagrams furnace, he would be able to burn it into ashes and produce elixir.
However, as the founder of the Eight Diagrams Furnace, it seems that he forgot that the Sun Gate of the Eight Diagrams Furnace has wind but no fire, so that Sun Wukong has been in the Eight Diagrams Furnace for seven, seven and forty-nine days, and has also refined a pair of golden eyes.
What is more puzzling is that when Sun Wukong escaped from the Eight Diagrams stove, the Supreme Lord Laojun was just pushed by Monkey Sun and fell to the ground, unable to fight again.
The same is true of the Buddha of the Western Heavenly Spirit Mountain. He came to kill Monkey King with the imperial edict of the Jade Emperor, but after arriving at the scene of the crime, the Tathagata kept asking about the birth of Monkey King.
In the end, the Tathagata did not dare to kill Monkey King. Instead, he pressed Monkey King under the Five Elements Mountain and protected him in disguise for 500 years. The Tathagata even took advantage of the situation to draw Monkey King into the scripture collection team. When he was halfway there, the Tathagata quietly told Monkey King that "after your success, you will also sit on the lotus platform".
All these things are mixed together to prove that it is no coincidence that no one dares to offend the Monkey King, and it is in line with the profound meaning of Journey to the West.
2、 The Deep Meaning of Journey to the West
What is the meaning of Wu Chengen's Journey to the West? The answer is simple, that is, the monsters with background background are taken away, and the monsters without background background are killed.
Just like the white bone spirit in White Tiger Ridge, she was killed by Sun Wukong with three sticks when she performed the "necromancy"; The scorpion spirit of the Nation of Women just wanted to have sex with Tang Monk, but died in front of the slope; On the way to get scriptures, all the foxes who had no backstage died unexpectedly.
The King of Golden Horn and King of Silver Horn of Pingdingshan suffered a lot for Sun Wukong, but were taken away by the Supreme Lord; How many monks did the golden nosed white haired mouse spirit eat in Zhenhai Temple? However, he was saved from death by the Tathagata with the sentence "no fishing in water"; The yellow browed monster swaggered in the Xiaoleiyin Temple, seriously discrediting the image of the Tathagata, and was still taken away by Maitreya.
In addition, such monsters as Jade Rabbit Spirit, Nine Spirits, Golden Hair, White Elephant Spirit, Green Lion Spirit, Dapeng Sculpture, Green Bull Spirit and so on are backed by big men. Even if they commit a heinous crime, they can still walk away from it.
So who is standing behind the Monkey King? This man is Sun Wukong's father.
3、 Sun Wukong's father
Who is Sun Wukong's father? In fact, readers who have carefully read the original book of Journey to the West will notice that the author Wu Chengen wrote this sentence at the beginning: The Flower and Fruit Mountain stands clear and turbid from the opening, and is formed after the judgment of Hongmeng
It can be seen that the Huaguo Mountain has been formed since the beginning of Hongmeng. It is unique, and the immortal stone that bred Monkey King is also Since the founding of the world, Every innocent show, the sun and the moon.
The "Pioneer" here refers to the Pioneer of Pangu. Don't think that Pangu God does not exist in the world of western travel, just because Wu Chengen wrote in the first chapter: Ganpangu Pioneering The world was divided into four major continents: Dongsheng Shenzhou, Xiniu Hezhou, Nanfang Buzhou, and Beiju Luzhou.
It means that the great god of Pangu objectively exists in the world created by Wu Chengen, but why did Wu Chengen not mention the great god of Pangu again? The author believes that Pan Gu is the father of Sun Wukong. After the creation of Pangu, his body and blood turned into mountains and rivers, while Pangu's true spirit turned into a fairy stone and fell on the top of Huaguo Mountain.
With the blessing of Pangu Zhenling, this immortal stone can breathe and breathe by itself, absorb the essence of the sun and the moon for tens of thousands of years, and finally gave birth to Monkey King.
In this way, we can explain why the immortal stone that gave birth to Monkey King was born at the time of "opening up", and why the immortals and Buddhas in the three realms dare not kill Monkey King. Only because Monkey King's birth father, Pan Gu, has already made a sensation in the three realms, which is known by all the immortals and Buddhas, and naturally will give Monkey King a face.
To sum up, Journey to the West is ostensibly a story of Tang Seng, Sun Wukong and others learning from the West. In fact, Wu Chengen, the author, reflects the complex relationship between people in real life by using the fairy, Buddha, demon and devil in his novels. Therefore, Journey to the West can be regarded as a critical satire, which is one of the main reasons why Journey to the West ranks among the four masterpieces.
