The Monkey King. Zhu Wuneng. Is the origin of Sha Wujing's name related to the Book of Changes?

The names of the Monkey King, Zhu Wuneng and Sha Wujing are not from the Book of Changes.

The name "the Monkey King" was given by the first master of the Monkey King, the founder of Bodhi. Because Wukong is a stone monkey, and the monkey is also known as "monkey", taking one of the words "monkey" and removing it from the side of the anti-dog becomes the surname.

But Wukong ranks "Wu" under the Bodhi, hence the name. Later, Wukong converted to Buddhism, and the Tang Priest saw that his monk costume looked like a monk (a monk with hair), so he named him "Monkey", from which came the name of Sun Monkey.

The name of Pig Bajie comes from this: Because Pig Bajie threw the wrong pig fetus when she was reborn, she took "Pig" as her surname. Guanyin Bodhisattva gave him the dharma name "Wuneng", because he was destined to be a disciple of the Tang Priest in the future, and he was the same generation as Wukong, so he was also a generation of "Wuneng".

After he converted to Buddhism, the Tang Priest named him "Bajie", because Pig Bajie had previously said that he had given up five kinds of meat and three kinds of aversion (five kinds of meat: garlic, garlic, Xingqu, kind garlic and scallion are the five kinds of meat in the west, and leek, garlic, mustard, coriander and onion are the five kinds of meat in Taoism. Three dislikes: three kinds of meat that Taoism doesn't eat: geese, dogs and turtles. ), so it is called "Bajie (quit these eight things)".

Friar Sand was named "Sha" because he was a demon in Liushahe and took the river as his surname. Later, Guanyin Bodhisattva enlightened him and gave him the dharma name "Wujing" for the same reason. He was a contemporary of the Monkey King and Zhu Wuneng. Later, the Tang Priest saw that he looked like a monk after he lost his hair, so he gave him an alias "Sand Monk" for short.

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Brief introduction of the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand:

the Monkey King is one of the famous mythical figures in China, who came from The Journey to the West, Four Great Classical Novels. Born in Dongsheng China, he was born from the immortal stone since the beginning of the world. He led a group of monkeys into water curtain cave and became the king of monkeys, and was honored as the "Monkey King".

After Qian Shan Wanshui worshipped Bodhi as a teacher, he was named the Monkey King, and learned superb spells such as seventy-two changes of the earth demon, somersault cloud and immortality.

Friar Sand, also known as Friar Sand and Sha Wujing, comes from The Journey to the West, Four Great Classical Novels. Also known as huangpo, Mother Earth and fesr in the book, the five elements belong to the earth, commonly known as Friar Sand and Friar Sand.

He used to be the general of the shutter of the Jade Emperor in the Heavenly Palace. He accidentally broke the glass lamp, broke the dogma, was banished from the heaven, made waves in the quicksand river on earth, harmed one side, and only ate passers-by. After the enlightenment of Guanyin, he was given the Dharma number to realize the purity, and returned to the Buddha wholeheartedly. Together with Bajie and Wukong, he guaranteed Master Xuanzang, a famous monk in the Tang Dynasty (also known as Master Sanzang or Tang Priest, the common name is Chen Yi), to worship the Buddha in the West and seek the true scriptures.

Zhu Bajie is a fictional character who appeared in The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, a novelist of Ming Dynasty. Also known as Zhu Gangzhu, whose legal name is Wuneng (Guanyin) and whose nickname is Bajie (Tangseng), he is the second disciple of Tang Priest, who can change the number of plough in thirty-six ways.

After flirting with the Nishang Fairy and provoking the picket of the Lingguan, he was demoted to the world by knocking down the bull-fighting palace, but he threw a pig fetus by mistake. Later, he was enlightened by Guanyin and became a disciple of Tang Priest. Together with the Monkey King, he protected Tang Priest from going to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures, and was finally named the messenger of the altar.

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