1. Patriarch Bodhi:
He is the master who taught the Monkey King Sun Wukong the martial arts. He lives in the Sanxing Cave of Xianyue in Fangcun Mountain, Lingshan. He has knowledge of the three religions and nine streams, the art of immortality, and the seventy-two transformations. , Soaring in the Clouds and Riding on the Mist, etc. are proficient in everything. The Monkey King had just joined the disciples of Patriarch Bodhi. Seeing his intelligent nature, the Patriarch named him Wukong. Then he taught Sun Wukong the magic of immortality, taught him the skills of seventy-two transformations, and then taught him the somersault cloud that was thousands of miles away.
After ten years of careful teaching, the Monkey King has transformed from a stubborn mortal to a divine monkey with 84,000 hairs on his body. Bao Tang Monk laid a solid foundation in martial arts.
2. Jade Emperor:
Also known as the Jade Emperor, he is the supreme ruler in charge of the three realms of heaven, earth and man. He is also revered as the most noble god by Buddhism and Taoism.
The Jade Emperor lives in the Lingxiao Hall of Jinque Cloud Palace, which is composed of thirty-three heavenly palaces and seventy-two treasure halls. His ten generations of Plutos are in charge of life and death in the world; the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas are in charge of weather changes; the Nine Obsidian Stars and the Five Directions Generals, the Twenty-Eight Constellations, the Four Heavenly Kings, etc. are so brave that they cover the earth; Taibai Jinxing, Erlang Zhenjun, the Five Directions and Five Elders are all immortals, all of whom have boundless magical powers; and they are secretly protected by the Tathagata Buddha of the West.
3. Queen Mother:
She lives in Yaochi, so she is also called Yaochi Empress. She held a peach gathering in the Yaochi and entertained all kinds of gods. Unexpectedly, the Monkey King disrupted the peach gathering.
The flat peaches she planted are the most magical. If a small peach tree ripens once every three thousand years, a person who eats it will become healthier and lighter, and becomes an immortal; if a normal peach tree ripens once every six thousand years, a person will ascend to heaven and live forever after eating it. It will not age; the best is cooked once in nine thousand years, and a person who eats it will live as long as heaven and earth, and as long as the sun and moon. She is the most revered goddess in the Heavenly Palace, in charge of hosting banquets for all kinds of gods and goddesses in heaven, and in charge of marriage and childbirth in the human world.
4. Tathagata Buddha:
The power of the Buddha is boundless, and all the eight Vajras, eighteen Arhats, and various Bodhisattvas under his command undergo numerous changes. The incomparably brave Sun Wukong could fly a few thousand miles away, but he could not get out of the palm of the Tathagata Buddha's hand.
The original intention of Tathagata is to come by the way of the true Tathagata, that is to say, to come as it is, and he is the founder of Buddhism. His racial name is Sakyamuni, and Muni means saint. Together they are called Sakyamuni Saint. He was originally a prince in northern India in ancient times. Because he was dissatisfied with the Brahmanism at that time, he became a monk and practiced Buddhism.
5. Buddha from the East:
Also known as Maitreya Buddha, he has big ears, a full belly and a fat body, and always smiles. He is also commonly known as the laughing monk. Also known as the future Buddha. His Royal Highness, the yellow-browed boy who knocked on the chime, stole the acquired bag and defeated Sun Wukong and other gods until they were helpless. In the end, thanks to the help of Buddha from the East, Sun Wukong was able to surrender the Yellow-browed Tong'er.
6. Taishang Laojun:
His surname is Li Ming'er, and his given name is Changgeng. He is the founder of Taoism, so he is called Taishang Laojun.
He lived in Tushita Palace, practiced elixirs, and often rode green oxen. He has a magic weapon called Jin Gangzhuo, which is very powerful. He made great achievements in capturing Sun Wukong who caused trouble in the Heavenly Palace, but was stolen by his Green Bull. He defeated Sun Wukong, the King of Pagoda, and the Eighteen Arhats many times in the Golden Cave. God, in the end, Lao Junbao fanned the sword, took away the diamond, and subdued the green bull spirit. He is a good old man who keeps things quiet and doesn't easily fight with others.
7. The longevity boy of Antarctica:
He is a lovely old immortal with a big meat bag on his head and a dragon crutch in his hand. A white deer follows behind him for him to ride on. . Unexpectedly, this white deer has an immortal heart, and takes advantage of the Antarctic longevity star to play chess with the Donghua Emperor. With thousands of years of cultivation, he goes to the mortal country of monks and colludes with the vixen.
He transformed the vixen into a beauty like a flower and presented it to the king. He regarded himself as the head of the country and used the heart and liver of children as longevity medicine, causing harm to the people. As a result, he encountered the dazzling Sun Wukong and could not escape the disaster. Subdued by Wukong. When Wukong was about to kill the White Deer Spirit, the Antarctic Immortal arrived and ordered the monster to show its true form, and the Antarctic longevity star returned to the fairy mountain.
8. Taibai Jinxing:?
The surname is Li. He is a well-known star in the heaven. He has great power and is relatively kind. Sun Wukong broke into the underworld and made trouble in the Dragon Palace. The Jade Emperor was about to send troops to conquer. Taibai Jinxing interceded for Wukong and suggested that Wukong be granted the title of Bima Wen, who manages the royal horse.
When Sun Wukong rebelled against the Heavenly Palace for the second time, it was Venus who came forward to recruit peace and envoys. He made Wukong the Monkey King and managed the Peach Garden.
Later, when Tang Monk and his disciples were on their way to Xitian to learn Buddhist scriptures, Chang Gengxing secretly helped the four masters and disciples defeat the Yellow Wind Monster and clear out the Lion Camel Cave many times. He was a kind and good old man.
9. Zhenyuan Great Immortal:
He is the ancestor of the Earth Immortal. His Taoist name is Zhen Yuanzi. He lives in Wuzhuang Temple in Hezhou, Xiniu. His Taoism is so profound that even Guanyin Bodhisattva Also let him score three points. The ginseng fruit he planted matures once every nine thousand years. If you smell the magical ginseng fruit, you can live 360 ??years; if you eat one, you can live 47,000 years.
Great Immortal Zhenyuan is really powerful. But the great immortal was open-minded and generous. When Sun Wukong invited the Bodhisattva to save the ginseng fruit tree, he ignored the past grudges and became sworn brothers with Sun Wukong. He also generously held a ginseng fruit party and feasted all the immortals and Tang Monk masters with precious ginseng fruits, which was quite popular. Great immortality.
10. King Li Tianwang of Tota:
Li Jing is the garrison commander in the Tiangong. Among the three sons born to him, the eldest son Jin Zha serves Tathagata Buddha, the second son Muzha is the great disciple of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the South China Sea, and the third son Nezha serves under his own account. In his early years, he had a falling out with his third son Nezha, so Tathagata Buddha gave him a wishful golden pagoda with relics, which resolved the old feud between father and son, so he was called Li Tianwang with pagodas.
The Li family father and son have superb martial arts skills, profound magic power, and loyalty to the Jade Emperor. They enjoy a lofty and important status in the heaven. Whenever there is a major event, the Jade Emperor will first appoint King Li Tian to take charge. He was appointed as the Grand Marshal to Conquer Demons twice when he quelled Sun Monkey's rebellion. His 100,000 heavenly soldiers, including the Giant Spirit God, General Yu Maw, and the Third Prince Nezha, were all elite soldiers and generals commanded by the King of Heaven. The four monks in Tang Dynasty experienced many disasters.
11. The Third Prince of Nezha:
The third son of King Li Tianwang of Tota, and one of the disciples of Tathagata Buddha, he serves as the Great God of the Three Altar Seas in the Tiangong. When Nezha was born, there was the character "Na" on his left palm and the character "Zha" on his right palm, so he was named Nezha. He went to sea when he was only three years old and caused great trouble. He trampled down the Crystal Palace and caught a dragon to cramp and scrape its scales.
The King of Tota was afraid that he would cause big trouble when he grew up, so he wanted to kill Nezha to avoid future troubles. Unexpectedly, Nezha was so angry that he took a knife in his hand, cut off his flesh and returned it to his mother, and removed his bones to return to his father. A wisp of his soul went to the West to report to the Buddha. The Tathagata took lotus roots to make his bones and lotus leaves to make his muscles, and brought Nezha back to life.
Later, Nezha wanted to kill the King of Heaven and avenge the evisceration. Thanks to the Tathagata who made peace and gave the King of Heaven a pagoda, so that Nezha could regard the Buddha as his father, the hatred between father and son was resolved.
Nezha is young but has great magical power. He can transform into three heads and six arms. He rides on a hot wheel, uses a golden gun in his hand, wears a circle of heaven and earth on his neck, and has a demon-slaying sword, a demon-slaying knife, a demon-binding rope, The six magic weapons, including the demon pestle and the hydrangea, are full of changes. Whenever King Tota takes command of an expedition, Nezha will definitely go there, sometimes as a vanguard, sometimes as a general. He has surrendered ninety-six demons and is recognized as a young hero in heaven and earth.
12. Mu Cha:
Also called Mu Zha, he is the second son of King Tuota and the second brother of Nezha. His name is Hui'an and he is the protector of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the South China Sea. Great disciple. The weapon used by Mu Cha is a thick iron rod, which is extremely brave and can change in many ways. He often traveled with Guanyin Bodhisattva, and secretly helped Tang Monk and his disciples defeat demons, making great contributions to Tang Monk's journey to the west to obtain Buddhist scriptures.
13. Erlang Zhenjun:
Yang Jian. The nephew of the Jade Emperor lived in Guanjiangkou. The weapon he used was a three-pointed two-edged spear with seventy-three variations. He was good at flying in the clouds and mists. He also had a brave roaring dog. The six Meishan brothers under his command were also very good.
In the battle with Sun Wukong who was causing trouble in the Heavenly Palace, he fought with martial arts and finally captured the extraordinary martial arts Sun Wukong. He has outstanding martial arts skills in the Heavenly Palace, so he has a very prominent position. On the way to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures, Erlang Shen helped Sun Wukong defeat the nine-headed monster and eliminated Tang Monk's difficulty.
14. Dragon Kings of the Four Seas:
They are the four gods who manage the oceans under the orders of the Jade Emperor. Among the four brothers, Ao Guang, the Dragon King of the Middle East, is the largest, followed by Ao Qin, the Dragon King of the South China Sea. Ao Shun, the Dragon King of the North Sea, and Ao Run, the Dragon King of the West Sea. The duty of the Dragon King of the Four Seas is to manage the creatures in the ocean, control the wind and rain in the human world, and command countless soldiers and generals.
Tang Monk went to the West to learn scriptures. The Dragon King of the Four Seas helped him many times, either to stir up trouble or to lead troops to help. However, his nephew Xiao Long offended the holy monk, and they did not show favoritism and arrested him.
15. Prince Mo'ang:
Ao Mo'ang is the prince of Ao Run, the Dragon King of the West Sea. He is loyal and brave, not interested in personal favors, holds a three-edged mace in his hand, and is very skilled in martial arts. .
Ao Mo'ang's cousin Xiao Long captured Tang Monk in the Blackwater River and invited his uncle, the Dragon King of the West Sea, to come and eat Tang Monk's meat. After learning about it, the Dragon King of the West Sea immediately sent Mo Ang to lead his troops to capture the dragon. The cousins ??fought in the Black Water River. In a battle, how can the little dragon resist the superb martial arts of his cousin Moang.
In three or five rounds, Mo Ang captured the dragon and brought him to justice, and rescued Tang Seng and Bajie. Later, when Sun Wukong and the Four Birds Jupiter were chasing three demons in Xuanying Cave, Prince Moang led his troops to help and helped Wukong catch the three rhinoceros spirits, which made another great contribution.
16. Pleiades Star Official:
It is a deity in the Palace of Light in the Heavenly Realm, a big rooster who specializes in the morning service, and his mother is the great and compassionate Pilamva Bodhisattva. Tang Monk and his disciples were studying in the West to learn Buddhist scriptures. On the way, they were trapped by scorpion spirits in the Pipa Cave of Poison Mountain. Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie fought for a long time and were unable to win. Thanks to the guidance of Guanyin Bodhisattva, Pleiades Star Official generously agreed to catch the monsters in the lower world.
When Sun Wukong lured the scorpion spirit out of the cave to fight, the star official showed his true form and turned into a big rooster six or seven feet tall. He screamed for a long time, and the monster showed its original shape. When he screamed again, the scorpion spirit was all over his body. So soft, died in front of me.
17. The King of Hades:
He is one of the ten kings of Hades in the underworld. He has five organs under his command. Officials in the fresh air are forbidden to kill, officials in the water are forbidden to steal, officials in the iron are forbidden to commit prostitution, and officials in the earth are forbidden to do so. Two tongues, heavenly officials forbid drinking. He is in charge of life, old age, sickness and death in the human world, and his subordinates Hei Wuchang, Bai Wuchang, and the Life-Calling Judge all do things to cheat people's lives. When the arrogant Sun Wukong raised his golden cudgel, Yama repeatedly begged for mercy and erased Wukong's name from the book of life and death.
18. Chang'e:
She was originally the wife of Hou Yi, the god of heaven. Houyi, the god of heaven, shot down nine suns, offending the emperor of heaven and being demoted to earth. The couple could not return to heaven, so Hou Yi went to seek the elixir of immortality. The Queen Mother of the West gave Houyi a magical elixir. If two people take this elixir, they will live forever. If one person takes it alone, he can ascend to heaven and become an immortal.
Chang'e secretly ate the elixir and ascended to the sky. She was afraid of others' ridicule, so she flew to the deserted moon palace, with only a jade rabbit, a toad and a laurel tree to accompany her. Marshal Tianpeng in Tianhe was demoted to the lower world and mistakenly reborn as a pig because he was drunk and molested Chang'e, and later became Zhu Bajie. Chang'e's Jade Rabbit came down to earth to take revenge and became a monster. Later, it was subdued by the Taiyin Star Lord and taken back to the Moon Palace, eliminating the difficulties faced by Tang Monk and his disciples on their journey to the West to learn scriptures.
19. Giant Spirit God:
He is a general under the tent of King Tuota. The weapon he uses is a Xuanhua board axe. When he dances the heavy Xuanhua board axe, he will Like a phoenix passing through flowers, it is extremely dexterous. When King Tota led a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals to conquer the rebellious Monkey King, the Giant Spirit God was the vanguard general, which shows that his martial arts and magic power were extraordinary.
Extended information:
Academic circles generally believe that the author of "Journey to the West" is Wu Chengen. Hu Shi and Lu Xun once demonstrated that the author of "Journey to the West" is Wu Chengen, a native of Huai'an. Wu Cheng'en (about 1500-1582), whose courtesy name was Ruzhong and also from Sheyangshan. A native of Shanyang County, Huai'an Prefecture (now Huai'an District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province). His ancestral home is Gaodian, Tongcheng, Anhui. His ancestors lived in Gaodian, Tongcheng, so he was called the Wu family in Gaodian.
Chinese Ming Dynasty novelist. He was smart and well-read since he was a child, especially fairy tales. He suffered repeated setbacks in the imperial examinations and was promoted to Gongsheng in Jiajing. In the forty-fifth year of Jiajing reign (1566), he was appointed as the magistrate of Changxing County, Zhejiang Province. Due to difficulties in his official career, he decided not to pursue an official career in his later years and wrote behind closed doors.
Since none of the 100-chapter editions of "Journey to the West" published in the Ming Dynasty are signed by the author, the earliest edition is the Jinling Shidetang edition (the 20th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, 1592), signed "Huayangdong Tianzhu School", There is a preface by Chen Yuan at the beginning, which leaves room for who the author of "Journey to the West" is. Tao Zongyi, a beginner in the late Yuan and Ming dynasties, attributed "Journey to the West" to Qiu Chuji's name in "Zhuogenglu·Qiu Zhenren".
When Wang Xiangxu, a Taoist priest in the early Qing Dynasty, carved "The Book of Journey to the West", he also attributed "Journey to the West" to Qiu Chuji. Subsequently, many scholars in the Qing Dynasty held this view, such as Chen Shibin's "True Interpretation of Journey to the West", Zhang Shushen's "New Journey to the West", Liu Yiming's "Original Purpose of Journey to the West", Zhang Hanzhang's "Tongyi Journey to the West Zhengzhi", etc., "Journey to the West" The author was Qiu Chuji, which became the mainstream theory in the Qing Dynasty. Some people raised doubts about this theory in the Qing Dynasty.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Journey to the West