Wu Cheng'en, one of the Four Great Classical Novels on the Journey to the West, was born in Sheyang Mountain. China was an outstanding novelist in Ming Dynasty.
Journey to the West is based on the story of Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures, related scripts and zaju (written by Yang Ne at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty). The first seven chapters narrate the story of the Monkey King's birth, causing havoc in Heaven and so on. After that, he wrote the story of the Monkey King following the Tang Priest to learn from the West, exorcising demons and conquering difficulties along the way. The images of Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand in the book are vivid, large in scale and complete in structure.
The first time: The Monkey King first appeared
A stone monkey was fossilized at the top of Huaguo Mountain on the seashore of Aolaiguo, Dongsheng, China, and the monkeys respected the stone monkey as the Monkey King. In order to find the immortal magic formula, I searched all the way, and met the founder of Bodhi in Sanxing Cave in Xieyue. The founder named him the Monkey King.
The second time: the official named Bi Mawen
The Dragon King and the Yan King complained to the Jade Emperor, and the Jade Emperor named him Bi Mawen. When Wukong realized that he was a groom, he turned to Huaguo Mountain in great anger and called himself the Great Sage of Qitian.
the third time: the Great Sage made trouble in Heaven
Wukong and Jiro fought endlessly, regardless of the outcome. Grandfather Lao Jun threw down the diamond sleeve and knocked Wukong down. Old gentleman Tai Shang threw Wukong into the gossip furnace, and he developed a pair of critical eyes.
the fourth time: the imprisoned five elements mountain
the jade emperor invited the Tathagata Buddha, but Wukong couldn't turn out the Tathagata's palm. The Tathagata turned his five fingers into a "five-element mountain" and put Wukong under the five-element mountain.
The fifth time: Monkey King guaranteed Tang Priest
Wukong was instructed by Guanyin to convert to Buddhism and waited day and night for the Buddhist scriptures. Xuanzang went through Wuxing Mountain, rescued Wukong and named him Monkey. Wukong killed all the gangsters, and the Tang Priest accused him of killing. Wukong left the master in anger.
The sixth time: The disaster started in Guanyin Temple
Two disciples came to Guanyin Temple, and Elder Jinchi wanted to burn Tang Priest and his disciples to occupy the cassock. Wukong went to the Southern Tianmen to borrow a fire shield from Guangmu Tianwang to save the master. The robes had already been robbed by the bear monster, and Wukong invited Guanyin to subdue the bear monster.
The seventh time: Collect Pig and Pig
Wuneng rescues Miss Gao. Gao Laohan and his wife adopted Wu Neng as their son-in-law. Tang Priest accepted him as an apprentice and named him Pig Bajie.
The eighth time: Three difficulties come along the road
The Tang Priest was caught by the devil. Wukong invited bodhisattva lingji to subdue the yellow wind king turned by the stingray. The Tang Priest accepted Sha Wujing as an apprentice again, and the four of them continued westward.
the ninth time: eating ginseng fruit secretly
Tang Priest and his disciples stayed at Wuzhuangguan. Bajie urged Wukong to steal ginseng fruit from the garden and share it with other disciples. Erdaotong found the fairy fruit missing and scolded Tang Priest and his disciples. Wukong was angry and knocked down the ginseng fruit tree. Wukong promised to search all the immortals and heal the fruit trees.
The tenth time: Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon
Tang Priest was tricked by Bai Gujing, but the Monkey King caught him three times and beat him to death with a golden hoop. Tang Priest thinks that the Monkey King killed innocent people and is determined to drive Wukong away.
The 11th time: The Monkey King
was inspired to go to Baoxiang country, and Huang Paoguai turned the Tang Priest into a tiger cage. Bajie came to Huaguo Mountain and dared him to return to the Monkey King. Wukong broke the black magic, helped master restore his original shape, and the master and apprentice got back together.
The 12th time: Lotus Cave of Treasure
On the way westward, Bajie patrolled the mountain and was captured by King Yinjiao of Lotus Cave. King Yinjiao also used the method of moving mountains, while holding down Wukong, while taking the Tang Priest, Friar Sand and White Horse back to the abode of fairies and immortals. Wukong put King Yinjiao in the gourd, and the old gentleman came to take away Jinjiao and King Yinjiao, who had changed from gold and silver in an alchemist.
The 13th time: Eliminating the Demon and Black Chicken Country
The Tang Priest and his disciples stayed in the Zen Temple. In the middle of the night, the late king told Tang Priest about the past when he was pushed into the well by the Demon Road, asking for revenge for him. The prince secretly met his mother and told the truth.
The 14th time: the Great War in Hong Haier
Hong Haier is the son of Niu Mowang and Princess Tiefan. Hong Haier cheated the trust of Tang Priest with a bitter plan and took the opportunity to take Tang Priest into the cave of fire clouds. Wukong and Bajie went to look for the master, and Hong Haier led a group of goblins, who spouted fire at their mouths, so that Wukong and Bajie fled.
the fifteenth time: fighting against the three monsters
Four master and apprentice came to Che Chiguo. The king favored three Taoist priests and made them national teachers. Oppressing monks, Wukong was very unfair and designed to play the Buddhist. Wukong sneaked into the Sanqing Hall with Bajie and Friar Sand, and the three of them sat in the shrine and enjoyed their offerings.
the sixteenth time: I was interested in my daughter's country
The daughter of Xiliang, the king, admired the Tang Priest's outstanding talents and was willing to trust the country to marry this royal brother. The daughter, the king, is tender and affectionate, and pays tribute again and again. Tang Priest resolutely cut off his faint affection and declined the kindness of his daughter, the king.
The 17th time: Three-tone banana fan
The flaming mountain blocked the way for Tang Priest and his disciples to move westward. Only the banana fan of Princess Iron Fan can put out the fire, make wind and rain. Borrowing a fan failed, and finally it became a bug, which entered the princess's stomach with tea. The princess was in unbearable pain and had to agree to borrow a fan. It's a fake fan.
The 18th time: Sweeping the Tower to Distinguish Strange Injustice
In the Jinguang Temple, a sacrifice country, Wukong captured a small demon, and Bai Longma turned into a teenager. He went to the pool to find the Princess Nai, and designed to cheat the Buddha treasure back, and Jinguang Temple topped the Buddha treasure to shine again.
The 19th time: I mistakenly entered the Thorn Ridge in Little Lei Yin, and the Tang Priest worshiped it. Unexpectedly, the Buddha in the temple was transformed into a demon, and the Tang Priest and others were captured. Later, Wukong invited Maitreya Buddha to set a clever plan in the watermelon field and finally caught the yellow-browed child demon. The Tang Priest and his disciples were able to continue westward.
The 2th time: Sun Monkey practiced medicine skillfully
Tang Priest went to Zhu Ziguo Golden Temple to change the official documents. With the help of Empress Jinsheng, the demon king was stolen and released three purple and gold bells of fire, smoke and sand to rescue Empress Jinsheng.
the 21st time: I fell into the silk cave by mistake.
Tang Priest spent his time alone and was entangled in spider silk. Wukong and others killed the little demon and saved the master.
The 22nd time: Four explorations into the bottomless pit
Wukong successively explored the demon cave four times to find out the origin of the demon, so he went to the Heavenly Palace to complain, forcing the Jade Emperor to send Tota Li Tianwang and his son into the cave with Wukong, and finally caught the golden nose and white hair mouse essence.
the 23rd time: the Tang priest and his disciples came to the state, and Wukong sneaked into the palace with invisibility, and shaved all the heads of the king, queen, concubines, eunuchs and Manchu officials. After learning this lesson, the king admitted that he had rejected the Buddha and treated the Tang Priest and his disciples with courtesy.
the 24th time: Tianzhu receives the Jade Rabbit
The king holds a grand wedding for the princess and the Tang Priest. The woman, who wanted to throw herself into the river, was secretly rescued by Wukong. Wukong became an old woman and asked about the woman's life experience. She used to be the true princess of Tianzhu, but a year ago, she was blown away by the yellow wind at the twentieth birthday feast held by her father.
The 25th time: Bosheng is in bliss
The Tang Priest and his disciples crossed Lingyundu, took a bottomless boat, and finally reached the other shore, where they were reborn and came to Lingshan. The disciples had to give the Zijin alms bowl to the venerable one, and only then did they get the true scriptures with words and receive the Buddha names one by one.
Extended information:
the Monkey King:
Born in Huaguoshan, Dongsheng Shenzhou, Wopo World, the immortal stone has been bred since it was opened. However, the immortal stone is not without its origin. It is located on the ancestral vein of the ten continents and three islands. Its height is 24 qi, and its orifices correspond to the nine palaces and eight trigrams (nine orifices and eight orifices).
One day, the fairy stone burst and gave birth to a stone egg. After the wind blew, it turned into a stone monkey. After the stone monkey was born, two divine lights came out of his eyes, which shot at Doufu and alarmed the Jade Emperor in the sky. Later, because he successfully broke into water curtain cave, he was worshipped as the "Monkey King" by the monkeys in Huaguoshan.
After that, there was a great disturbance in the Heavenly Palace, and even the encirclement and suppression of it by 1, heavenly generals, four heavenly kings and twenty-eight stars could not defeat it. Later, he lost the bet with the Tathagata, and was crushed by the Tathagata's hand-made Wuxing Mountain (renamed Liangjie Mountain in the Tang Dynasty) for more than 5 years to repent and turn over a new leaf.
Being intelligent, lively, loyal and hating evil, it represents wit and courage in folk culture. From the Tang Dynasty, the legend of westward journey appeared, and it continued to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, The Journey to the West, the masterpiece of these legends, appeared. The Monkey King is regarded as a god by China people in these folk myths of past dynasties.
Tang Priest:
Also known as Tang Sanzang, Tang Priest is a figure in The Journey to the West, one of Four Great Classical Novels in China. In his previous life, he was Jin Chanzi, the second disciple of the Tathagata, and taught his disciples to be "compassionate". As a monk, he does good deeds, harms the people and sows the seeds of kindness for people. As a scholar, his strong will and persistent pursuit spirit. Not confused by wealth, not conquered by death.
The strong belief that he will never give up until he reaches his goal has finally brought him to fruition. Tang's monk is a kind-hearted and good-natured monk who eats fast and reads Buddha. The monsters who tried their best to eat the meat of the Tang priest finally ate their own fruit and ended up in ruin. He cared about the world and benefited the people of Lebanon. He traveled far and wide in order to get the true scriptures, and he preached Buddhism and the idea of being close to the people and respecting the monarch wherever he went.
As for the reason why Tang Priest always saved the day despite many hardships, one reason is that Tang Priest was reincarnated as the son of Jin Chan, blessed by Buddha Tathagata and Guanyin Bodhisattva; Secondly, the Tang Priest can lead his three disciples well, make them surrender to themselves, tell on the move to Guanyin Bodhisattva or recite the incantation, and make the disciples daunting. As long as anyone dares to do evil or commit crimes, he will be severely punished.
Pig Bajie:
Originally, he was the Tianpeng Marshal under the Jade Emperor of Heaven, who was in charge of Tianhe. Later, because of drunkenness, he molested the Nishang Fairy and made a loud noise, which led to the picket of the Lingguan. Later, he bowed down the bullfighting palace with his mouth and ate Ganoderma lucidum and Xiancao, and was ordered by the Jade Emperor to be sent down to earth after more than 2, hammers. His laziness, gluttony and lust often put Tang Priest and his disciples in trouble.
After retrieving the Sutra, Pig Bajie was named as the messenger of the Pure altar because of his stubbornness and lust. When he was reborn on earth, he threw a pig fetus by mistake, and his face was similar to that of a wild boar. He once took Yunzhan Cave in Fuling Mountain as a demon. It killed the sow, killed the flock of pigs, and adopted the second sister of Egg, who went to Yunzhan Cave in Fuling Mountain. Unexpectedly, the second sister of Egg died a year later, leaving him only a abode of fairies and immortals.
At this point, he lived in Yunzhan Cave, calling himself "a pig". The Tang Priest went west to learn Buddhist scriptures, passed by Gaolaozhuang, and fought the Monkey King in Yunzhan Cave. When he heard the name of Tang Priest, he went to visit him. After being accepted as a second apprentice by the Tang Priest, Tang Priest gave him a nickname "Bajie" in order to keep him from eating five meats and three dislikes. Bajie became the Monkey King's good helper from now on, and together they protected Tang Priest from going to the Western Heaven for Buddhist scriptures.
Sha Wujing:
Originally, he was the general of the shutter of the Jade Emperor in the Heavenly Palace. Because he accidentally broke the glass lamp and broke the dogma, he was banished from heaven. After being enlightened by Guanyin, he was given the dharma number and devoted himself to the Buddha. Friar Sand was simple and honest and loyal.
Honest and selfless, hard-working, conscientious, conscientious, and dutiful, he finally achieved great merit, and was named "Lohan Bodhisattva with Eight Treasures in South China" by Buddha Tathagata, which belongs to the position of Bodhisattva, not Lohan. Friar Sand is honest and loyal. Don't be arrogant like the Monkey King, and don't like to hear what the leaders say.
Unlike Pig Bajie, he has too many problems, likes to eat and sleep, and always rides blindly for the leader, complaining when doing some dirty work. Friar Sand is calm and unrequited, indifferent but tenacious. With his wisdom of belittling himself and loyalty to the cause of Buddhist scriptures, he maintains the harmony of the Buddhist scriptures team and serves it.
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