The origin and plot of Sun Wukong's name come from the first chapter of "Journey to the West": Spiritual roots breed and flow out of the heart and practice the great life: Dongsheng Shenzhou proudly comes to the country. There is the Huaguo Mountain in the sea, and a fairy stone on the top of the mountain gives birth to a stone. monkey.
The stone monkey found a stone cave called "Water Curtain Cave" at the source of the stream where he lived, and was hailed as the king by the group of monkeys. Three to five hundred years later, the stone monkey suddenly cried sadly because life was unpredictable and he would not live long. According to the instructions of an old monkey, Stone Monkey passed through Nanshanxun Prefecture to Xiniu He Prefecture, went up Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, entered Xieyue Sanxing Cave, paid homage to the Patriarch Subhuti, and was accepted as his disciple, named Sun Wukong.
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Creative background
In the first year of Zhenguan (627), Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the 25-year-old monk Xuanzang traveled to Tianzhu (India) on a walking study tour. After setting off from Chang'an, he passed through Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, going through many hardships and obstacles, and finally arrived in India. He studied there for more than two years and was a keynote speaker at a large-scale debate on Buddhist scriptures, receiving praise.
In the 19th year of Zhenguan (645), Xuanzang returned to Chang'an and brought back 657 Buddhist scriptures, which caused a sensation. Later, Xuanzang's oral account of his journey to the West was compiled into twelve volumes of "The Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" by his disciple Bianji. But this book mainly tells the history, geography and transportation of the countries seen on the road, without any stories.
When it comes to the "Biography of Master Tripitaka of Daci'en Temple in the Tang Dynasty" written by his disciples Huili and Yancong, it adds a lot of mythological color to Xuanzang's experience. From then on, the story of Tang Monk's Buddhist scriptures began It is widely spread among Chinese people.
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