As the first protagonist of one of the four great masterpieces "Journey to the West", many of the Monkey King Monkey King's skills are well-known in China, such as somersault cloud, seventy-two changes, wishful golden hoop and so on. The "Fire Eyes and Golden Eyes" are also considered one of the famous magical powers of Monkey King in the Chinese folk.
In the impression of many people, the main function of Monkey King Monkey King’s "Fire Eyes and Golden Eyes" is to see through the changes in demons. Many film and television dramas adapted from the original "Journey to the West" have been greatly enhanced. This impression. So can Monkey King's "fire eyes and golden eyes" really see through the changes of demons?
The first thing to explain is that the original "Journey to the West" describes the "fire-eyed golden eyes": "It's just that the wind stirs up smoke, making one pair of eyes red and making them an old sick eye. Therefore, it is called "fire eye golden eye"." According to the original description, "fire eye golden eye" is an eye disease rather than a magical eye.
Because of the existence of the "fire-eyed golden eyes", the eyes later became a rare life gate in Monkey King. For example, during the battle against Red Boy, Sun Wukong, who was not afraid of fire, suffered a big loss because of his "hot eyes and golden eyes." The original text reads: "Hold him into a golden eye, so I am still afraid of smoke."
Because of this, the "fire eye golden eye" is just a special appearance of Monkey King and has nothing to do with magical powers. The Monkey King " 開火眼金眼看看" written many times in the novel is actually the same as Guan Yu's "Fengmu Yuankai" in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or Song Jiang's "open strange eyes" in "Water Margin".
In addition, the effect of "eyes and golden eyes" in the original work is basically the big talk of Monkey King, and they are often beaten immediately. For example, by the Tongtian River, Monkey King said that his "fire-eyed golden eyes" could see three to five hundred miles at night, but turned around and regarded the stone monument two or three steps away as a fisherman.
And in the problem of seeing through the changes of demons, the "hot eyes and golden eyes" failed many times. For example, in the Wuji Country, Monkey King failed to recognize the fake Tang monk who turned a fairy, and he had to distinguish between the true and false by means of the hoop curse; in the three-tune plantain fan, Monkey King did not recognize the changed pig bajie of the bull demon king.
According to the description of the original work, none of the monster changes seen by Monkey King was purely a result of the "golden eyes", but the result of a combination of multiple abilities and external conditions. "Fire Eye Golden Eye" itself is just an eye disease and a special appearance, and its magical effect is basically blown out by Monkey King.
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