The birth of the Stone Monkey is summarized as follows: There is a fairy stone on the top of the Huaguo Mountain on the seaside of Dongsheng Shenzhou Aolai Country. One day, the fairy stone burst into pieces, shocking the earth and the earth, and turned into a stone monkey. This stone monkey is agile and intelligent. He made friends with a group of monkeys and found a good place to settle down in Shuilian Cave.
The monkeys respect the stone monkey as the Monkey King. In order to find the immortal formula, the Monkey King sailed across the ocean alone on a raft and came to a fishing village. He found clothes, stole shoes and hats, and went to restaurants to drink and eat noodles. He made a lot of jokes and learned a lot about people. The Monkey King searched all the way and finally climbed up to Fangcun of the Lingtai and paid homage to Patriarch Bodhi in the Sanxing Cave of Xianyue. The ancestor named him Sun Wukong.
Appreciation
In the story of "The Birth of the Stone Monkey", Sun Wukong went from the stone monkey spawned by the fairy stone in Huaguo Mountain to the hidden "stone" in Shuiliandong Cave and was called the "Monkey King" "From getting his name from Lingtai Fangcun Mountain to getting the Ruyi Golden Cudgel from the Dragon Palace, he has completed the evolution of his image step by step.
In this long process, Sun Wukong went from having "spiritual powers" in immortal stones, to traveling around the world to understand human nature, to worshiping immortals and gaining supernatural powers, and completed the transformation of his character step by step.
This is exactly how Wu Cheng'en writes from the natural environment of Huaguo Mountain, and then places the characters in the "social relationships" of traveling around the world to learn people's etiquette and language, and then rises to the immortal mansion for training. , in the perfect blend of strong mythological color and concrete real life, the image of Sun Wukong was completed step by step.